Plant derivative attacks the roots of leukemia
...ncer stems cells in blood cancers and in brain and breast tumors although the idea that cancer stems cells exist has been around for at least 40 years. In the current study, the UR group began investigating Feverfew after other scientists showed that it prevented some skin cancers in animal models. Intrig...OHSU scientists develop MRI approach to improve breast cancer detection
...ing method that may provide a clearer diagnosis of breast cancer. The research is published in the latest is...alyzed data from six patients identified as having breast tumors with mammograms (X-rays.) In procedures conducted by New York research collaborators Drs. Wei...How often should women get mammograms?
...ams affects the number of lives saved by detecting breast cancers at an earlier stage. With screening guidel...r for women younger than 50, when the incidence of breast cancer is lower and mammograms are effective. The model can be helpful to women, he said, by elimina...The history and controversy behind post-menopausal hormone therapy
...d quality of life, but there was increased risk in breast cancer, increase in cardiovascular events and stroke risk among other results leaving the stakeholders in a dilemma. "From a purely business point of view, the most reliable profits [for drug companies] can be made from disease processes and conditi...Stem-cell research hints at better looking cosmetic and reconstructive surgery
... how cosmetic surgery, such as wrinkle removal and breast augmentation, might be improved with natural impla...nthetic implants. Saline and silicone implants for breast augmentation may rupture, leak, and interfere with breast cancer detection on mammograms. Stem-cell ...Gene signature can predict breast cancer spread
...e discovered a genetic signature that can identify breast cancer patients at high risk of distant recurrence...o reliable diagnostic tools exist to predict which breast cancer patients are most likely to relapse. Around 60-70% of women with lymph-node negative breast c...New European cancer figures for 2004 major efforts needed against the big four killers
...ult on the four biggest killers lung, colorectal, breast and stomach cancer if there is to be quick, signi... the rise, stomach cancer decreasing Among women, breast cancer was by far the most common, representing 27.4% of all female cases and it was also the bigges...Hormone therapy controversy raises drug safety issues
...iative (WHI) research that found increased risk of breast cancer, dementia, heart attacks and strokes in women taking combination hormone therapy and increased risk of strokes in women taking estrogen alone. Naughton and co-authors Alison Snow Jones, Ph.D., and Sally Shumaker, Ph.D., all from Wake Forest B...Study examines effect of managed care on quality of care for cancer patients
...Medicare beneficiaries who had been diagnosed with breast or colorectal cancer between 1993 and 1999. The authors found that increases in the market share of managed care in a county were not associated with several indicators of quality of care in that county, including receipt of surveillance mammography ...Breast cancer treatment reduces risk of heart disease
Women with breast cancer treated with the anti-estrogen drug tamoxif...e. Tamoxifen has been shown to reduce the risk of breast cancer recurrence by as much as 50 percent. In addition, increasing evidence indirectly supports its...Older doctors less likely to follow current standards of care
...f less aggressive surgical therapy for early-stage breast cancer, may be harder to incorporate into the practice of doctors who have trained long ago. The study indicates that older doctors may need quality improvement interventions that are generally applicable to all physicians. The current requirements i...Hypothyroidism associated with reduced breast cancer risk
...ar to have a reduced chance of developing invasive breast cancer, according to a study published in the Marc...had a 61 percent lower risk of developing invasive breast cancer. Additionally, women newly diagnosed with breast cancer were 57 percent less likely to have t...Women with thyroid problem have lower risk of breast cancer
...enough thyroid hormone, are less likely to develop breast cancer than women with normal thyroid function. Th...oidism is associated with more aggressive forms of breast cancers, suggesting that thyroid hormone may promote breast cancer biology. Over a century ago phys...Penn joins major NCI research initiative to advance breast cancer therapies
...cal approaches for understanding the mechanisms of breast tumor progression and metastasis. To accomplish th...s of novel, genetically engineered mouse models of breast cancer. "It's truly a multidisciplinary team effort, bringing together biologists with radiologists,...Boosting HIV screening can increase survival and is cost effective
...terventions in other chronic conditions, including breast cancer, colorectal cancer, diabetes and hypertension. Paltiel said that even in settings with HIV infection levels similar to the U.S. general population, one-time screening could deliver excellent return on investment. "HIV is a severe disease that,...Birth size and adult cancer risk
...ed more at birth had significantly higher rates of breast cancer before age 50, though much lower rates of e... For women, a strong association was found between breast cancer in women under age 50 and larger birth size. Women in the highest category of birth weight (4...Bone density appears to recover after adolescents discontinue injected contraceptive
... bone mineral density increase after a woman stops breast feeding. "The potential loss of bone density is one consideration of the many that go into a woman's choice of contraceptive method," Dr. Scholes said. The researchers wrote that it is impossible to know what the women's bone density would have been ...New breast cancer test could save lives
...l is developing a revolutionary new test to detect breast cancer at an early stage. If successful, this tes...ill be effective for women of all ages; given that breast cancer is the largest killer of women between the ages of 35-55 in Europe, the test could have a dra...Alcohol: Global burden on health similar to tobacco and high blood pressure
...re than 60 different medical conditions, including breast cancer and coronary heart disease. In most cases alcohol has a detrimental effect on health. The comprehensive review on alcohol and public health is particularly timely as from February 7, 2005 new legislation in the UK will permit pubs, bars, off-......a protein known as Stat5 prevents laboratory-grown breast cancer cells from becoming invasive and aggressive...gene, could one day lead to advanced therapies for breast cancer patients. "This new insight is significant because it is the invasive behavior of breast canc...