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Future Hope For Patients With Breast Cancers Resistant To Tamoxifen
POSTED: July 1, 2008Researchers have found a new family of therapeutic agents that interferes with the ability of estrogen to stimulate the growth of breast cancer cells. The results of the new study will be presented by Nicole Patterson at The Endocrine Society's 90th Annual Meeting in San Francisco. The cell-based study suggests that a small-molecule therapeutic called...
Bionovo Discovers New Estrogen Regulatory Elements For Breast Cancer And Osteoporosis Drugs
POSTED: June 27, 2008Bionovo Inc. announced results on the role of estrogen regulatory elements important in developing drugs for breast cancer and osteoporosis. The data, which were presented at the Endocrine Society's 90th Annual Meeting, showed that the new regulatory elements are essential for the differentiation of the estrogenic pharmacological activity exerted by dif...
Law Prohibits Insurers From Using Genetic Data To Deny Coverage
POSTED: June 27, 2008A simple cheek swab and a few hundred dollars can reveal a person's predisposition to everything from breast cancer to hair loss. The information is fairly easy to obtain and is becoming more simplistic to process, in part because of systems used by San Diego-based Illumina Inc. Illumina supplies gene-reading technologies to Mountain View-based 23...
The Secret Cancer: Men Hidden Victims Of Breast Disease
POSTED: June 27, 2008Breast cancer is usually associated with women, but it can also affect men. And when it does, the consequences can be just as devastating. Just ask William Steele. The father of three, who grew up with four sisters, never imagined he would be the one in his family diagnosed with this life- threatening disease. But, unlike most men, he w...
Future Hope For Patients With Breast Cancers Resistant To Tamoxifen
POSTED: June 27, 2008Researchers have found a new family of therapeutic agents that interferes with the ability of estrogen to stimulate the growth of breast cancer cells. The results of the new study will be presented by Nicole Patterson at The Endocrine Society's 90th Annual Meeting in San Francisco. The cell-based study suggests that a small-molecule therapeutic calle...
Genetic Test Will Identify Those Most At Risk Of Breast Cancer
POSTED: June 27, 2008The chances of getting breast cancer vary more than sixfold among women because of their genetic inheritance but the breast screening programme fails to target those at highest risk, scientists have found. Researchers at the University of Cambridge say it may soon be possible to offer women a genetic test based on the seven common gene sites t...
Raloxifene Reduces Risk Of Invasive Estrogen-Receptor Positive Breast Cancer
POSTED: June 27, 2008Women who took raloxifene were less likely to develop invasive estrogen-receptor (ER) positive breast cancer compared with women who did not, according to data from a randomized controlled trial published online June 10 in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute. The drug did not reduce the risk of non-invasive cancer or invasive ER-negative cancer...
The North American Menopause Society Issues New Recommendations Regarding Management Of Breast Cancer Risk In Postmenopausal Women
POSTED: June 24, 2008CLEVELAND -- The North American Menopause Society (NAMS) has just released a supplement to its official journal Menopause to meet the need for current clinical recommendations for managing breast cancer risk in postmenopausal women. Breast cancer is the most common cancer among women, except for nonmelanoma skin cancers, and is the second lea...
Raloxifene Reduces Risk Of Invasive Estrogen-Receptor Positive Breast Cancer
POSTED: June 24, 2008Women who took raloxifene were less likely to develop invasive estrogen-receptor (ER) positive breast cancer compared with women who did not, according to data from a randomized controlled trial published online June 10 in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute. The drug did not reduce the risk of non-invasive cancer or invasive ER-negative cancer...
