New biopsy technique helps assess breast cancer's spread
...cal technique that can help doctors determine when breast cancer has invaded the lymph nodes, sparing some w...ltrasound to examine 57 women newly diagnosed with breast cancer. If the lymph nodes appeared abnormal on the ultrasound, the researchers performed a fine nee...Computer program helps doctors diagnose lung cancer
...logist. From our experiences in evaluating CAD for breast cancer, using computer aids significantly improves...is team have developed a similar program to detect breast cancer, and initial testing there is promising. The computer program for both lung and breast cancer...Stem cells' repair skills might be link to cancer
...the tumor -- in certain malignancies of the blood, breast and brain. In most cases, however, it's not clear whether these cancer stem cells came from the tissue's normal, primitive stem cells or from the tissue's mature cells. "Cancers associated with chronic irritation may be a good setting in which to ...Breast conserving therapy safe for hereditary breast cancer
Women with hereditary breast cancer treated with breast conserving therapy appear to have no increased risk for recurrence in the treated breast, according ...Study may lead to new means of increasing effectiveness of existing cancer treatments
...s study was the first to implicate this pathway in breast cancer and to identify this mechanism in human tumor cells. "An increasing number of cancer therapeutic agents are being developed to block pathways activated by interactions at the cell surface," said Dr. Aaronson, Professor and Chairman of Oncolog...Ovarian cancer does have early warning signs, Mayo Clinic and Olmsted Medical Center find
...g it far more aggressive than malignancies such as breast cancer. Ovarian cancer occurs in 1 out of 70 women. ...Women taking breast enhancement pills swallow empty promises
...n Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS). Not only are breast enhancement pills unproven, they could be dangerou...their "guaranteed" safety and low cost compared to breast augmentation; however, these pills are sold as herbal supplements and are not subject to the U.S. Fo...Paclitaxel chemotherapy for breast cancer not associated with serious radiation pneumonitis
... to improved outcomes for patients with metastatic breast cancer and for patients whose disease has spread t... adjuvant treatment to prevent local recurrence of breast cancer, but some of the radiation focused on the breast tissue and chest wall passes through the lun...No link found between pneumonitis in breast cancer patients and taxane-based chemotherapies
...Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center have shown that breast cancer patients treated with taxane-based chemothe...nt and improved survival of selected patients with breast cancer. In addition, these results disprove a previous smaller study that had suggested the dang...Chemoprevention backgrounder: Working for a future of cancer chemoprevention
...lude refined forms of aspirin to prevent colon and breast cancer, trace minerals to protect against prostate...ns of ancient remedies, such as turmeric spice for breast cancer and good ole' cups of green tea daily, to repress oral cancer. At the moment, a complete "che...Study finds HER2-positive breast cancer invades organs due to fatal chemical attraction
...mystery of why an aggressive form of HER2-positive breast cancer travels readily to a few key organs - lungs... attraction between signals found on HER2-positive breast cancer cells and those on the surface of the organs -a magnetism that explains why this form of brea...Pioneering Welsh surgery delivered to hospitals
Women in Britain with breast cancer will soon benefit from a pioneering surgica...ad to lymph nodes, and reduces the side-effects of breast surgery in around 60% of women with breast cancer. The procedure gives much lower rates of arm swel...Elderly cancer patients are significantly under-represented in cancer clinical trials
...s for all cancer treatments except those examining breast cancer hormonal therapies. Researchers suggest that this likely reflects the general acceptance among both patients and physicians that hormonal therapy is well tolerated and effective in reducing recurrence and death in women of all ages, including...Heavy drinking raises the risk of early death after heart attack
...h dangers as high blood pressure, obesity, stroke, breast cancer, suicide and accidents. Also, it's not possible to predict in which people alcoholism will become a problem. Given these and other risks, the American Heart Association cautions people NOT to start drinking if they do not already drink alcoh...OHSU unique in broadbased teaching of new breast exam recommendations
...re providers in a standardized version of clinical breast exam to find palpable cancers. The Breast Health E...ns could help standardize the practice of clinical breast exam and lead to better evidence to show the effectiveness of clinical breast exam in the early dete...Lung cancer specialist calls for cash to beat 'Cinderella' disease
...ingdom. This form of cancer kills more people than breast and prostate cancer combined, and is also the leading cancer killer in women, ahead of breast cancer. "Despite this, lung cancer research is poorly funded compared to other cancers, including...Engineered stem cells can home in on tumors and deliver drug payload in mice
...ta could treat mice that were implanted with human breast cancer or human melanoma. Interferon beta...ing survival of the mice. Specifically, mice whose breast cancer was treated with MSC survived 60 days compared to 41 days in the mice injected with interfero...Breast cancer risk, prognosis and weight gain reduced with physical activity
...ical activity programs and interventions geared to breast cancer survivors will increase well-being and may ...activity can protect against weight gain, decrease breast cancer risk, and potentially improve breast cancer prognosis, efforts to encourage physical activity...Higher radiation doses help some lung cancer patients live longer
... patients who received the higher dose. "Although breast cancer and prostate cancer are more prevalent, lung cancer remains the leading cause of cancer death among men and women," said Ramesh Rengan, M.D., Ph.D., lead author of the study and a radiation oncologist in the Department of Radiation Oncology at......tures related to physical inactivity. The costs of breast cancer, osteoporosis and colon cancer together totaled $12 million. The estimates could have been much higher if obesity, a risk factor for the diseases included in the study, had been included in the analysis, the researchers note. The stud...