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Heart Disease Beats Breast Cancer As The Biggest Killer, UK

Breast cancer accounts for almost a third of all cancer cases reported in women. However advances in the treatment for breast cancer, and early detection, have improved the chances of survival from the disease. New research published in BioMed ...

Jun 18, 2011

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Two thirds of women with breast cancer more likely to die from cardiovascular ...

However advances in the treatment for breast cancer, and early detection, have improved the chances of survival from the disease. New research published in BioMed Central's open access journal Breast Cancer Research has found that two thirds of w...

Jun 18, 2011

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In honor of alumna Millersville University establishes breast cancer resource room

It's a small quiet room but it will be given new furniture and materials to transform it into a place where visitors could come in and get an education about breast cancer. Thanks to a $10000 donation from professor emeritus Dennis Denenberg ...

Jun 18, 2011

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Heart disease beats breast cancer as the biggest killer

But, over the course of the study, it was found that older women, who were more likely to have other health problems resulting from previous cancer, cardiovascular disease, emphysema, chronic bronchitis, or diabetes, were the most likely to die from ...

Jun 18, 2011

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Pink garbage totes aid cancer research

Mayor Michael W. Tucker said Friday that when the city institutes its new privatized garbage collection system later this summer, residents who want to make a donation toward breast cancer research will have the option of buying a pink plastic garbag...

Jun 18, 2011

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Inform Dual ISH to determine HER2 gene in breast cancer patients

by Sunita Kumar Breast cancer is the second leading cause of cancer-related death among women. About 20 percent of women diagnosed with breast cancer are HER2-positive. The Inform Dual ISH test allows lab personnel to count the number of copies of HE...

Jun 17, 2011

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Cheap Blood Pressure Drug Cuts Breast Cancer Death Risk By 81%

by VR Sreeraman on June 18, 2011 at 3:52 PM A blood pressure drug which was developed 40 years ago, and costing less than 5p a day, could reduce the risk of women dying from breast cancer. The latest study at Trinity College, Dublin, and Johns Hopkin...

Jun 17, 2011

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USA - TSA Scanners - A Public Health Threat, Physical or Psychological? - FluTrackers

Are the TSA scanners a public health threat? We are starting a thread to discuss this. The Bureau of Transportation statistics estimates 621,000,000 passenger trips will occur in the US this year. Many of these are repeat passengers. Some p...

Nov 19, 2010

ATP Chemotherapy Response Assay in Breast Cancer - Cancer Forums and News by PhD's

South Korean researchers, using an adenosine triphosphate (ATP) chemotherapy response assay reported results in breast cancer. According to the researchers, it had the advantage of standardization, evaluability, reproducibility and accuracy and could...

Sep 25, 2010

Triple Negative Breast Cancer (TNBC) - Cancer Forums and News by PhD's

A study was presented at the 2009 American Society of Clinical Onocology (ASCO) breast cancer symposium in San Francisco about progress in drug selection through the use of cell-based functional profiling. It delt with the so-called "triple negative"...

Oct 22, 2010

A Genomic Predictor of Response and Survival Following Taxane-Anthracycline Chemo - Cancer Forums and News by PhD's

A Genomic Predictor of Response and Survival Following Taxane-Anthracycline Chemotherapy for Invasive Breast Cancer Christos Hatzis, PhD; Lajos Pusztai, MD, DPhil; Vicente Valero, MD; Daniel J. Booser, MD; Laura Esserman, MD, MBA; Ana Lluch, MD; Tat...

Jun 09, 2011

Less is more axiom in surgery - Cancer Forums and News by PhD's

Axillary Dissection vs No Axillary Dissection in Women With Invasive Breast Cancer and Sentinel Node Metastasis A Randomized Clinical Trial Armando E. Giuliano, MD; Kelly K. Hunt, MD; Karla V. Ballman, PhD; Peter D. Beitsch, MD; Pat W. Whitworth, M...

Feb 21, 2011

FDA says breast cancer drug did not extend lives - Cancer Forums and News by PhD's

Treating breast cancer with a combination of chemotherapy and Avastin is not clinically meaningful, according a document published by the FDA. The FDA said the level of improvement in women treated with chemotherapy and Avastin was not significantly ...

Aug 26, 2010

PARP Inhibitiors in Breast and Other Cancers - Cancer Forums and News by PhD's

Some cell-based assay labs have explored the biology of PARP inhibitors, alone and in combination, in actual human tumor primary culture micro-speheroids (microclusters), in breast, ovarian and other cancers. In these investigations, the lab applies ...

Mar 28, 2011

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Does Natural Progesterone prevent Breast Cancer?

Answer: John Lee, MD writes in his Medical Letters"We have clear clinical evidence of a correlation between natural hormone replacement (NHRT-Natural Progesterone) and breast cancer prevention. In ten years of prescribing NHRT, not a single patient of mine o...

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What is breast cancer staging?

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Breast Cancer FAQ: What is breast cancer staging?

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How many women die from breast cancer each year?

Breast Cancer FAQ: How many women die from breast cancer each year?

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Who survives breast cancer?

Breast Cancer FAQ: Who survives breast cancer?

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Can I inherit breast cancer from someone in my family?

Answer: There's no simple answer to this question. Some abnormal genes are associated with an increased risk of breast cancer. In families that have an abnormal gene, it can be passed down from a parent to a child. Only 10% (1 in 10) of women with breast can...

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How can any woman determine her relative risk of developing breast cancer?

Answer: About 2.5 percent of all California women 50 years old will develop breast cancer during the next 10 years of their lives. Below are 3 Web-based sources of information about breast cancer:The Breast Cancer Risk Assessment Tool, National Cancer Instit...

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Do DES daughters have a higher risk for breast cancer?

Answer: From statements by Dr. Julie Palmer reporting on results of a National Cancer Institute survey of DES daughters: "We found no association between DES exposure and risk of breast cancer before age 40. In fact, DES-exposed women had a slightly lower in...

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