Intelliseeker - Breast Cancer

Saturday, December 26, 2009

Post: Complications and Risks of Breast Augmentation

There were 364,610 breast augmentation procedures performed in 2005. The top concerns of breast augmentation include the surgery itself, the implants, breast cancer and the risk of anesthesia.

Contributor: Cristina Olvera
Published: May 24, 2006

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Friday, December 25, 2009

Post: 10 Myths About Breast Cancer Busted

Ten of the most common myths about breast cancer exposed here. Some of them may surprise you, and others you just be aware of.

Contributor: Megan Mathews
Published: May 19, 2006

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Friday, December 18, 2009

Post: Improving mammogram accuracy

Members of a Syracuse University research team have shown that an obscure phenomenon called stochastic resonance (SR) can improve the clarity of signals in systems such as radar, sonar and even radiography, used in medical clinics to detect signs of breast cancer. It does this by adding carefully selected noise to the system........ ...

Thursday, December 17, 2009

Post: Success with new anti-cancer drug

A study conducted at Scott and White Healthcare in Temple, Texas, observed that a new drug stopped the growth of breast tumors in mice. This drug is unique in that it works both by stopping the cancer cells from growing and metastasizing to other organs, and by stimulating the immune system to destroy breast cancer cells and keeps them from coming back. This is the only drug that's able to work in both ways, while all other therapys work in one way or another. And, this research initiative not ...

Saturday, December 12, 2009

Post: Spices halt growth of breast cancer stem cells

A newly released study finds that compounds derived from the spices turmeric and pepper could help prevent breast cancer by limiting the growth of stem cells, the small number of cells that fuel a tumor's growth. Scientists at the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center have observed that when the dietary compounds curcumin, which is derived from the Indian spice turmeric, and piperine, derived from black peppers, were applied to breast cells in culture, they decreased the number of ...

Wednesday, December 9, 2009

Post: Annual screening with breast ultrasound or MRI

Results of a large-scale clinical trial presented today at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) provide the first good evidence of the benefit of annual screening ultrasound for women with dense breasts who are at elevated risk for breast cancer. In addition, the study confirmed that MRI is highly sensitive in depicting early breast cancer........ ...

Friday, December 4, 2009

Post: A powerful combination punch against breast cancer

A powerful new breast cancer therapy could result from packaging one of the newer drugs that inhibits cancer's hallmark wild growth with another that blocks a primordial survival technique in which the cancer cell eats part of itself, scientists say. While they are powerful killers of some breast cancer cells, new drugs called histone deacetylase inhibitors, or HDAC inhibitors, also increase self-digestion, or autophagy, in surviving, mega-stressed cells, Medical College of Georgia Cancer Cente...

Tuesday, December 1, 2009

Post: Improving mammogram accuracy

Members of a Syracuse University research team have shown that an obscure phenomenon called stochastic resonance (SR) can improve the clarity of signals in systems such as radar, sonar and even radiography, used in medical clinics to detect signs of breast cancer. It does this by adding carefully selected noise to the system........ ...

Monday, November 30, 2009

Post: Spices halt growth of breast cancer stem cells

A newly released study finds that compounds derived from the spices turmeric and pepper could help prevent breast cancer by limiting the growth of stem cells, the small number of cells that fuel a tumor's growth. Scientists at the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center have observed that when the dietary compounds curcumin, which is derived from the Indian spice turmeric, and piperine, derived from black peppers, were applied to breast cells in culture, they decreased the number of ...

Sunday, November 29, 2009

Post: Annual screening with breast ultrasound or MRI

Results of a large-scale clinical trial presented today at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) provide the first good evidence of the benefit of annual screening ultrasound for women with dense breasts who are at elevated risk for breast cancer. In addition, the study confirmed that MRI is highly sensitive in depicting early breast cancer........ ...

Friday, November 27, 2009

Post: A powerful combination punch against breast cancer

A powerful new breast cancer therapy could result from packaging one of the newer drugs that inhibits cancer's hallmark wild growth with another that blocks a primordial survival technique in which the cancer cell eats part of itself, scientists say. While they are powerful killers of some breast cancer cells, new drugs called histone deacetylase inhibitors, or HDAC inhibitors, also increase self-digestion, or autophagy, in surviving, mega-stressed cells, Medical College of Georgia Cancer Cente...

Thursday, November 26, 2009

Post: Hormone replacement therapy and breast cancer

The use of postmenopausal hormone treatment has decreased over time in the United States, which scientists suggest may play a key role in the declining rate of atypical ductal hyperplasia, a known risk factor for breast cancer. "Postmenopausal hormone therapy is linked to increased rates of non-malignant breast biopsies, and early and late stages of cancer. Atypical ductal hyperplasia is linked to the use of postmenopausal hormone therapy and its rates have decreased with the decline in use of ...

Wednesday, November 25, 2009

Post: Women with denser breasts have higher cancer recurrence

A newly released study finds that women treated for breast cancer are at higher risk of cancer recurrence if they have dense breasts. Reported in the December 15, 2009 issue of Cancer, a peer-evaluated journal of the American Cancer Society, the study's results indicate that patients with breast cancer with dense breasts appears to benefit from additional therapies following surgery, such as radiation........ ...

Tuesday, November 24, 2009

Post: Weight training for breast cancer survivors

In addition to building muscle, weightlifting is also a prescription for self-esteem among breast cancer survivors, as per new University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine research. Breast cancer survivors who lift weights regularly feel better about bodies and their appearance and are more satisfied with their intimate relationships compared with survivors who do not lift weights, as per a newly released study reported in the journal Breast Cancer Research and Treatment........ ...

Monday, November 23, 2009

Post: Early-stage, HER2-positive breast cancer

Early-stage patients with breast cancer with HER2 positive tumors one centimeter or smaller are at significant risk of recurrence of their disease, in comparison to those with early-stage disease who do not express the aggressive protein, as per a research studyled by scientists at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center........ ...

Sunday, November 22, 2009

Post: Space-Industry Technology to Treat Breast Cancer

Scientists at Rush University Medical Center and Argonne National Laboratory are collaborating on a study to determine if an imaging technique used by NASA to inspect the space shuttle can be used to predict tissue damage often experienced by patients with breast cancer undergoing radiation treatment. The study is examining the utility of three-dimensional thermal tomography in radiation oncology........ ...

Saturday, November 21, 2009

Post: Call to reconsider screening for breast cancer and prostate cancer

Twenty years of screening for breast and prostate cancer - the most diagnosed cancer for women and men - have not brought the anticipated decline in deaths from these diseases, argue experts from the University of California, San Francisco and the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio in an opinion piece reported in the "Journal of the American Medical Association"........ ...

Friday, November 20, 2009

Post: Transcendental meditation reduces stress

Women with breast cancer reduced stress and improved their mental health and emotional well being through the Transcendental Meditation technique, as per a newly released study reported in the current issue of the peer-evaluated Integrative Cancer Therapies (Vol. 8, No. 3: September 2009). "A Randomized Controlled Trial of the Effects of Transcendental Meditation on Quality of Life in Older Breast Cancer Patients" was a collaboration between the Center for Healthy Aging at Saint Joseph Hospital...

Thursday, November 19, 2009

Post: Tenderness in the breast during HRT

Women who developed new-onset breast tenderness after starting estrogen plus progestin hormone replacement treatment were at significantly higher risk for developing breast cancer than women on the combination treatment who didn't experience such tenderness, as per a new UCLA study. The research, reported in the Oct. 12 issue of the Archives of Internal Medicine, is based on data from more than 16,000 participants in the Women's Health Initiative estrogen-plus- progestin clinical trial. This tr...

Wednesday, November 18, 2009

Post: Diffuse Optical Tomography for breast cancer screening

Clemson University scientists in collaboration with scientists at the University of Bremen, Gera number of, are working to make the physical pain and discomfort of mammograms a thing of the past, while allowing for diagnostic imaging eventually to be done in a home setting. The group is fine-tuning Diffuse Optical Tomography (DOT) to create high-resolution images from a scattering of infrared and visible light for the early detection of breast cancer. While the method is less expensive, safer a...

Tuesday, November 17, 2009

Post: More breast cancer patients electing to remove other breast

A newly released study of New York State data finds that the number of women opting for surgery to remove the healthy breast after a cancer diagnosis in one breast is rising, despite a lack of evidence that the surgery can improve survival. The study also finds that despite extensive press coverage of women who choose to have both breasts removed because of a strong family history of cancer, the rate of this surgery is relatively low and has changed little in the last decade. The study appears ...

Monday, November 16, 2009

Post: Sorafenib for breast cancer

One of the first of a series of trials to investigate the use of sorafenib a targeted anti-cancer drug for the therapy of advanced breast cancer has observed that if it is combined with the chemotherapy drug, capecitabine, it makes a significant difference to the time women live without their disease worsening........ ...

Thursday, November 12, 2009

Post: Breast Cancer: Need for Early Risk Assessment

A recent study out of Canada suggests that breast cancer risk assessment and prevention should start much earlier in life than it currently does. Researchers point to links between mammographic density of breast tissue and associated risk of early development of breast cancer....

Tuesday, November 10, 2009

Post: Breast Cancer: A Patient Shares her Experience

Mona Palmore-Haynes reviews her experience battling breast cancer from discovering a lump in her breast to her reaction of being told she had breast cancer, course of treatment, side effects, recovery and the future. ...

Friday, November 6, 2009

Post: Breast Cancer: Swelling After Treatment

In breast cancer survivors, lymphedema - an uncomfortable swelling of the arm and wrist - can be one of the most vexing side effects of treatment. Now, a new study has found that women who develop lymphedema do worse than women without the condition and have higher out-of-pocket medical costs after radiation and surgery. ...

Monday, November 2, 2009

Post: Breast Health: Self Breast Examination among Hispanic Women

Despite high rates of screening mammography, most breast cancers in Hispanic women are detected by the women themselves. A troubling finding is that about half of all women who noticed an abnormality waited at least a month before seeking medical help. Research is being conducted to determine potential reasons for the prolonged waiting time....

Saturday, October 31, 2009

Post: Breast Cancer: Risk Associated with Childhood Cancer Survivors

Experts say female childhood cancer survivors who have had radiation should get mammograms earlier than the general population of women. These guidelines are in place because women who have had chest radiation as children, teens, or young adults have a significantly higher risk for breast cancer....

Monday, October 12, 2009

Post: What are the Symptoms of Breast Cancer?

"What are the Symptoms of Breast Cancer?" To prevent breast cancer naturally, it's important for women to know the early signs and symptoms of breast cancer....

Friday, October 9, 2009

Post: 8 Natural Ways to Prevent Breast Cancer

These 8 ways to prevent breast cancer can give you great natural breast cancer protection. But to prevent breast cancer you need to take action all 8 ways....

Monday, October 5, 2009

Post: Experts Gather to Discuss Latest Breast Cancer Research

Breast cancer experts are heading back from the annual San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium. Get the headlines from the meeting. ...

Wednesday, September 30, 2009

Post: Bone Drugs May Beat Back Breast Cancer (HealthDay)

HealthDay - THURSDAY, Dec. 10 (HealthDay News) -- Bone-building drugs used by tens of millions of women to fight osteoporosis also cut the risk of breast cancer, suggesting the drugs may play a dual role in keeping women healthy....

Tuesday, September 29, 2009

Post: Studies: Bone drugs may help prevent breast cancer (AP)

AP - New results from a landmark women's health study raise the exciting possibility that bone-building drugs such as Fosamax and Actonel may help prevent breast cancer....

Sunday, September 13, 2009

Post: Clinical Trial Advances New Approach To Re-Sensitizing Breast Cancer

A new drug cocktail might be the right mix to fight breast cancer after it becomes resistant to standard therapy. Details of a new study supporting this approach suggest it's possible to re-sensitize tumors thus allowing treatments to work again. The findings were presented today at the CTRC-AACR San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium....

Saturday, September 12, 2009

Post: Nexavar In Combination With Chemotherapy Demonstrates Activity In Patients With Advanced Breast Cancer In Two Phase 2 Studies

Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals and Onyx Pharmaceuticals, Inc. announced results from two collaborative group-sponsored randomized, double- blind, placebo-controlled Phase 2 trials were presented at the 32nd Annual San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium (SABCS)....

Friday, September 11, 2009

Post: Mayo Clinic Researchers Say Breast Cancer Survival Improves Herceptin Used With Chemotherapy

Using Herceptin with chemotherapy, instead of after, clearly improves treatment of women with HER2+ breast cancer, and should be the new standard of care, says a Mayo Clinic researcher who led what is regarded to be a key clinical trial determining the best use of Herceptin....

Thursday, September 10, 2009

Post: Study Finds Racial Disparities Exist In Radiation Therapy Rates For Early Stage Breast Cancer

Black women are less likely than white women to receive radiation therapy after a lumpectomy, the standard of care for early stage breast cancer, according to a new study by researchers at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center....

Wednesday, September 9, 2009

Post: Definitive Study Confirms Chemo Benefit In Postmenopausal Breast Cancer

Chemotherapy added to tamoxifen can improve outcomes for postmenopausal breast cancer patients, according to a landmark study by the Southwest Oncology Group....

Monday, September 7, 2009

Post: New Treatment Reverses Symptoms Of Menopause Without Hormone Therapy

It is estimated that 41 million women in the United States and 250 million women worldwide experience chronic and sometimes debilitating symptoms of menopause. Hormone-replacement therapy (HRT) has been a common pharmaceutical remedy, but a surge of recent studies has shown HRT increases a woman's risk of elevated blood pressure, endometrial and breast cancers, stroke, blood clots and gallbladder disease....

Saturday, September 5, 2009

Post: Novel Detection Method Unmasks Circulating Breast Cancer Cells

Circulating metastatic breast cancer cells can lose their epithelial receptors, a process that enables them to travel through the bloodstream undetected, according to research from The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center....

Friday, September 4, 2009

Post: Breast Cancer Gene Issues Surface

The Center for Modeling Optimal Outcomes, LLC, a New Jersey based think tank focused on the application of neuroscience in business, inadvertently discovered a scientifically verifiable model for assessing homeostasis (balance) between substances in the body....

Thursday, September 3, 2009

Post: MRI Detects Breast Cancer At Earlier Stage

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) coupled with mammography detects almost all cancers at an early stage, thereby reducing the incidence of advanced stage breast cancer in high-risk women....

Wednesday, September 2, 2009

Post: Targeted Therapy Prolongs Life In Patients With HER2-Positive Breast Cancer

Lapatinib plus trastuzumab are significantly better than lapatinib alone in extending the lives of breast cancer patients whose tumors are HER2-positive, according to Kimberly Blackwell, M.D., associate professor of medicine at Duke University Medical Center. Blackwell presented the findings today at the CTRC-AACR San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium....

Tuesday, September 1, 2009

Post: Obesity Linked With Poorer Breast Cancer Outcomes

Breast cancer patients with a high body mass index (BMI) have a poorer cancer prognosis later in life. Specifically, their treatment effect does not last as long and their risk of death increases....

Monday, August 31, 2009

Post: Antibody-Guided Drug Shows Encouraging Activity In Metastatic Breast Cancer

A new antibody-drug compound shrank or halted the growth of metastatic breast tumors in almost half of a group of patients whose HER2-positive cancer had become resistant to standard therapies, according to early data from a multicenter Phase 2 clinical trial led by a Dana- Farber Cancer Institute researcher....

Sunday, August 30, 2009

Post: Disease-Free, Overall Survival Inferior For Black Women With HR-Positive Breast Cancer

Black women with hormone receptor (HR)-positive breast cancer had worse disease-free and overall survival, according to data presented at the CTRC-AACR Annual San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium, held Dec. 9-13, 2009....

Saturday, August 29, 2009

Post: DC-SCRIPT Found To Have Prognostic Value In Breast Cancer

DC-SCRIPT, or dendritic cell-specific transcript, is a key regulator of nuclear receptor activity that may have prognostic value in breast cancer, according to a new study published online December 14 in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute....

Thursday, August 13, 2009

Post: Slide show: Stages of breast cancer

Stages of breast cancer — How they're identified and what they mean.
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Tuesday, August 11, 2009

Post: Breast cancer types: What your type means

Understand types of breast cancer and how they differ.
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Chemotherapy.com - http://www.chemotherapy.com...

Saturday, August 8, 2009

Post: Video: Mammogram for breast cancer — What to expect

Watch video to see what it's like to have a mammogram, breast cancer detection exam.
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