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Folate & Breast Cancer
POSTED: May 6, 2008Women who consume more folate, a B vitamin, may have a higher risk of breast cancer. Researchers analyzed blood samples taken from more than 1,700 U.S. women when they entered the Women's Health Study in 1993. Ten years later, those with the highest blood folate levels had about a 70 percent higher risk of breast tumors that respond to estrogen or...
Minerva Biotechnologies Announces Major Breakthrough On New Cancer Therapy Target MUC1
POSTED: May 6, 2008BOSTON -- Minerva Biotechnology, a leading nanotechnology, cancer and stem cell development company today announced a major breakthrough in a cancer target that is widely expressed in human cancers. Minerva used its proprietary nanoparticle technology to elucidate a key molecular mechanism that is involved in cancer cell growth and metastasis. T...
Researchers Discover Novel Approach To Estimate Risk Of Breast Cancer
POSTED: May 2, 2008ROCHESTER, Minn. -- In a paper published today, a team of medical researchers from the Mayo Clinic in collaboration with academic colleagues from Myriad Genetics Laboratories, the University of Utah, France, and Australia report on the outcome of a study that analyzes the risk for breast cancer imparted by inherited mutations in the BRCA2 gene. ...
Digital Mammography A Leap Forward For Women; New Screening Method Faster, More Accurate, Produces Less Radiation
POSTED: May 2, 2008The number of women having breast cancer screenings on a regular basis has declined in recent years, experts agree. New technology may not be enough of an incentive to get women back into the screening rooms. But the director of diagnostic imaging for Lovelace Women's Hospital figures talking about digital mammography just might help raise aw...
Chemo Fails To Root Out Breast Cancer Stem Cells: Study
POSTED: May 2, 2008While chemotherapy can remove breast cancer tumors, it fails to root out the stem cells that can revive the cancer, researchers said in a study published Tuesday. Comparing the challenge to eradicating stubborn weeds from a garden, the researchers at Baylor College of Medicine (BCM) in Houston, Texas, said chemotherapy often fails because it leaves b...
New Genes Linked To Breast Cancer
POSTED: April 29, 2008REYKJAVIK, Iceland -- Scientists in Iceland said they have found a fourth set of genetic variants linked to an increased risk of estrogen receptor-positive breast cancer. The findings, published in the journal Nature genetics, are being used to develop a DNA test to identify women who should be closely screened at an early age for the disease...
Scientists Design A Virtual Pregnant Woman To Study Radiation's Effects
POSTED: April 29, 2008Destroying a tumor in a body with radiation poses a number of challenges and risks, especially for a pregnant woman and her fetus. Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute are working to reduce those risks by advancing computer techniques that use virtual models of the human body. Their latest research looks at ways to protect a developing...
Hereditary Breast Cancer -- A High Cost To Patient And Health Care Provider Alike
POSTED: April 25, 2008Some women who carry the BRCA gene mutation, which predisposes to breast cancer, may choose to have a prophylactic mastectomy rather than undertake lifetime surveillance, a Dutch scientist will tell the 6th European Breast Cancer Conference (EBCC-6) today (Wednesday 16 April). The mastectomy option appears to give an excellent result in avoiding breast ...
Herceptin And Chemo Improves Response Rates Without Major Adverse Effects In Her2 Breast Cancer
POSTED: April 25, 2008Women with a particularly aggressive form of breast cancer seem to do better if they are treated with a combined anthracycline and taxane chemotherapy regimen before surgery, together with trastuzumab (Herceptin) before and after surgery, according to results from the largest multi-centre trial to investigate this treatment. Professor Michael Untch t...
Chemotherapy May Not Affect Memory In Breast Cancer Patients
POSTED: April 25, 2008Women receiving chemotherapy for breast cancer frequently report problems with memory and concentration, but two new studies suggest that chemotherapy is not the cause of these problems, and the stress of the diagnosis may be. The studies will be presented at the American Academy of Neurology 60th Anniversary Annual Meeting in Chicago, April 12-19, 2008...
