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........ ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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........ ...
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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...
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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........ ...
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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 ...
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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........ ...
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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...
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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 ...
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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........ ...
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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........ ...
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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........ ...
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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........ ...
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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"........ ...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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 ...
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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........ ...
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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....
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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.
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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. ...
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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....
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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....
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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....
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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....
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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. ...
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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....
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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....
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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....
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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)....
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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....
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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....
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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....
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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....
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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....
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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....
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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....
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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....
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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....
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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....
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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....
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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....
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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...
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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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