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UK Scientists Identify Gene Mutations That Trigger Breast Cancer

...s that could play a significant role in triggering breast cancer in women . The discovery would help evolv...eting younger women at higher-than-average risk of breast cancer so that they could be screened with mammography before they reach 50 - the age when routine b...

Minority Women in LA County Have Higher Rates of Chronic Disease Than Whites

...gular access to care, and they have lower rates of breast and cervical cancer screening than Chinese, Filipino and Vietnamese women. The report attributed poverty, lack of health care and insurance, and other socioeconomic factors to poor health among minority women in the county, according to the Times. ...

Breast Cancer Patients Follow-up Devalued

...day 24 May). [1] have published that follow-up of breast cancer patients after their initial treatment is b...he lack of confidence in the community support for breast cancer. There appears to be widespread concern regarding the level of oncology knowledge among GPs, ...

Breast Cancer on Rise Across Middle East

The incidence of breast cancer is increasing rapidly across the Middle Eas...e doctors from Abu Dhabi's Tawam Hospital, is that breast cancer cases (in UAE) are being caught much earlier, a critical factor in successful treatment of th...

Remicade Responders Maintain Improvement

...s adverse events (SAEs) included: prostate cancer, breast cancer, pneumonia, sarcoidosis, abscess and a death following Histoplasmosis pneumonia....

Scientists Identify Four Genes That Raise the Risk of Breast Cancer

Researchers investigating the causes of breast cancer at the University of Cambridge claim to hav...han previously identified genes that contribute to breast cancer. Apart from its application to breast cancer, the new technique can be used for other types...

Calcium and Vitamin D Intake Lowers the Risk of Breast Cancer Before Menopause

...may have a lower risk of developing premenopausal breast cancer. As a part of the study, researchers led ...es indicating whether they had been diagnosed with breast cancer. The researchers noted that over an average of 10 years of follow-up, 276 premenopausal wom...

Researchers Identify the Gene Mutation That Raises Breast Cancer Risk

...samples from nearly 50,000 women, half of whom had breast cancer , has revealed a common gene mutation that holds 60 per cent increased risk of breast cancer. Douglas Easton at the UK based University of Cambridge says that the gene mutation was obs...

Revolutionary Breakthrough in Breast Cancer Detection

...ogy is expected to help physicians better classify breast lesions. Elasticity imaging is an ultrasound techn...icity imaging study, doctors studied 166 suspected breast tumors in 99 women scheduled for biopsies. The lesions were measured using both the standard ultraso...

Scientists Create Fire-proof, Eco-friendly Plastic

... in dust in homes and offices, fish, fat cells and breast milk, raising concern that they pose a risk to human health and the environment. Led by UMass Amherst scientists Richard Farris, Bryan Coughlin and Todd Emrick, the research team presented an update on their work to industry representatives and sci...

Monogram Presents Results of First ETag Breast Cancer Studies

...y of its proprietary eTag technology in metastatic breast cancer will be presented at the 43rd American Soc...of cell lines that have acquired resistance to the breast cancer drug Herceptin (trastuzumab). Currently under development, the eTag technology is a highly ...

Surge in Cancer Incidence in Asia Feared

...e No. 2 cause of cancer among women in Asia, after breast cancer. "The problem is so huge that it's very .... "It's staggering. Every day I see a patient with breast cancer I just hold my own and say a prayer." There is indeed a better way out. An estimated 40 p...

Genetic Testing Helping Cancer Survivors Fight For Their Loved Ones

...are able to decrease the risk of dying from either breast or ovarian cancer in a great number of these patie...on." Approximately 10 percent of properly selected breast cancer patients carry either a BRCA 1 or BRCA 2 mutation. Of that group of patients, somewhere betwe...

Dietary Vitamin B6, B12 and Folate, may Decrease Pancreatic Cancer Risk Among Leans

... people in Asia, have a reduced risk of developing breast cancer, but some studies have found that increased soy intake in women who have not eaten it before appears to be harmful. The researchers say their study cannot definitively say that one carbon nutrients either pose a benefit or a hazard to most p...

Advanced Scientific Brings Help for Breast Cancer Survivors

...bled better diagnosis and treatment for women with breast cancer, according to studies presented at the wor...MRI, proved more effective in detecting tumors for breast cancer patients than the traditional test using mammograms. The MRI scan found malignant tumors that...

Astrazeneca's Investigational Cancer Therapies Revealed at ASCO

...reditary ovarian cancer. Between 5% and 10% of all breast and ovarian cancers are believed to be associated ...e reported to have up to an 87% risk of developing breast cancer, and up to a 44% risk of developing ovarian cancer by the age of 70.Professor James Carmichae...

Advanced Breast Cancer: Study Reveals White and Black Women Have Different Survival Rates

...o decades have seen modest overall improvements in breast cancer survival rates for women with advanced dise... (ASCO), is the first to show that improvements in breast cancer survival only benefit white women and that the disparity between black and white breast cance...

Researchers Identify Genetic Mutations for Hereditary Diffuse Gastric Cancer

...reased risk for diffuse gastric cancer and lobular breast cancer. "The identification of CDH1 mutations offe...f Newfoundland. Due to concentrations of lobular breast cancer cases, two branches of this family had been diagnosed as having hereditary breast cancer and ...

Long-term Use of Herceptin Does Not Increase Heart Failure in Patients

...ptin) and combination chemotherapy for early-stage breast cancer did not increase over time. The research ... to assess the risk of heart failure in individual breast cancer patients before treatment with Herceptin and chemotherapy. These findings, to be announced at...

Early Prostate Cancer: Specialty of Physician Influences Type of Therapy Received

...radiation therapy; loss of libido, hot flashes and breast tenderness for hormone therapy. There are no physical side effects associated with watchful waiting....

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(Date:12/6/2009)...nizations and members of the community, in coopera... Los Angeles, will once again create a holiday par...more than 5,000 veterans, active military personne... (PRWEB) December 6, 2009 -- Volunteer organizatio...th the Greater VA Healthcare System in West Los An...
(Date:12/5/2009)WASHINGTON, Dec. 5 ,, What: Cuts for a Cause ,, Why: To make a difference in the fight against cancer and other terminal illnesses affecting children. All proceeds from each hair service given
(Date:12/5/2009)...advise , , SATURDAY, Dec. 5 (HealthDay New...ies and asthma can have bad reactions to certain h...o prevent sneezing and wheezing, according to the ... (ACAAI). , Those who are allergic to live evergre... but both live and artificial trees can trigger sy...
(Date:12/5/2009)The MAMA campaign is a collaborative effort by the National Association of Certified Professional Midwives (NACPM), Midwives Alliance of North America (MANA), Citizens for Midwifery (CfM), Internation
(Date:12/4/2009)NEW YORK, Dec. 4 Thousands of KPMG LLP employees came together in more than 90 offices nationwide today, to participate in a community service event which combines the audit, tax and advisory firm,s
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(Date:12/4/2009)Scientists from the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and the Natural History Museum believe that carnivorous behaviour in plants is far more widespread than previously thought, with many commonly grown plan
(Date:12/4/2009)Using a new mathematical model of heart cells, University of Iowa investigators have shown how activation of a critical enzyme, calmodulin kinase II (CaM kinase), disrupts the electrical activity of h
(Date:12/3/2009)In the 1980s, Harald zur Hausen and his co-workers discovered that specific types of human papillomavirus (HPV) cause cervical cancer. Scientists soon found out how these pathogens cause cells to dege
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