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Cancer patients don't have time to waste, yet many must endure a tedious process of elimination as physicians try several different treatments until identifying the one that is most effective against their particular type of tumor. Now researchers at the University of Virginia Health System have developed a breakthrough method that could one day eliminate this trial and error approach to treating many cancers.
According to a new study published in the October issue of the Journal of the American College of Surgeons, although breast-conserving surgery (BCS), commonly known as lumpectomy, is increasingly being used to treat older women with nonmetastatic invasive breast cancer, there are still significant socioeconomic and geographic disparities in the use of this type of therapy.
People who suffer from debilitating neuropathic pain may get more relief and sleep better by combining two commonly-prescribed drugs. A new, federally-funded study by Queen's University researchers has found that taking the drugs together is a more effective treatment than taking either of them individually.
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Peregrine Pharmaceuticals, Inc. today reported positive results from its Phase II trial evaluating bavituximab in combination with docetaxel in patients with advanced breast cancer.
Being informed on prevention is key to good health; unfortunately today, by some, prevention is being diluted into what it is not. A few years ago, the term 'prevention' was rarely part of the vocabulary in orthodox medicine; lately it is often perplexed and exchangeable with the likes of 'avoid', and used all too commonly with implications meant to blur. You can now find to avoid Breast Cancer with 'Chemoprevention', a good program, but an irony in expression that has no shame.
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The right combination of estrogen and a selective estrogen receptor modulator (SERM), which blocks the effects of estrogen in breast tissue, could relieve menopause symptoms and cut breast cancer risk, Yale researchers report in an abstract presented at the American Society for Reproductive Medicine (ASRM) scientific meeting in Atlanta, Georgia, October 17-21.
U.S. scientists say drugs being tested for treatment of a variety of allergies, asthma and autoimmune diseases might lead to the development of breast cancer.
Bionovo Inc. announced today the publication of results from its study on the inhibitory effect of tamoxifen on estrogen receptor beta (ERb) gene regulation. The results of the study, which will be published in Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology, demonstrate that tamoxifen inhibits the beneficial effects of ERb in the prevention of breast cancer cell proliferation.
October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, and while it is critically important to raise awareness of breast cancer prevention in general; it is also a particularly important time for us ALL -- whether we are physicians, research scientists, women, or men -- to become acutely aware of a relatively rare, but all too often, poorly understood cancer known as Inflammatory Breast Cancer, or IBC.
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When Geri Bell lost her breasts to cancer, she joked that at least she wouldn't need a bra. When she lost her hair to chemotherapy, she'd say how her wig made it so easy to get ready in the morning.
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