02.26.07
Posted in Uncategorized at 12:00 am by Breast Cancer News From Medical News Today
UroToday.com- A gene expression profile in human breast tumors correlates with metastasis-free survival and overall survival for several tumor types to include prostate cancer (CaP), according to a report in the January 18, 2007 edition of the New England Journal of Medicine. Dr. Liu and colleagues from the University of Michigan, Stanford University and Oncomed published the work. [click link for full article]
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Posted in Uncategorized at 12:00 am by Breast Cancer News From Medical News Today
Breakthrough therapy offers women the chance to live twice as long without their cancer progressing. Roche announced today that the European Union's Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) has issued a positive recommendation for the use of its cancer drug Avastin in combination with a standard chemotherapy paclitaxel (originally branded Taxol) in previously untreated metastatic breast cancer. [click link for full article]
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02.25.07
Posted in Uncategorized at 7:00 pm by Breast Cancer News From Medical News Today
African and African American women are more likely to die of breast cancer than their white counterparts because they tend to get the disease before the menopause, suggests new research from the University of East Anglia and the Children's Hospital Boston in collaboration with researchers in the US and Italy.A racial disparity in mortality rates from breast cancer in the US first appeared in the 1970s coinciding with the introduction of mammography. [click link for full article]
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Posted in Uncategorized at 4:00 pm by Breast Cancer News From Medical News Today
Cancer researchers at Georgetown University Medical Center have taken a step towards understanding how and why a widely used chemotherapy drug works in patients with breast cancer.In laboratory studies, the researchers isolated a protein, caveolin-1, showing that in breast cancer cells this protein can enhance cell death in response to the use of Taxol, one of two taxane chemotherapy drugs used to treat advanced breast and ovarian cancer. [click link for full article]
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Posted in Uncategorized at 1:00 pm by Breast Cancer News From Medical News Today
A protein known for its ability to "bridge" interactions between other cellular proteins may spur metastasis in breast cancer, the disease's deadliest stage, a study from Burnham Institute for Medical Research has found.Led by professor Gen-Sheng Feng, Ph.D., and colleagues at Burnham and Royal Victoria Hospital in Montreal, Quebec, the study ranks among the first to more precisely define the cancer role for the protein known as Gab-2. [click link for full article]
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Posted in Uncategorized at 2:00 am by Breast Cancer News From Medical News Today
Tamoxifen offers long-term benefits for breast cancer prevention among women at high risk of the disease, according to two randomized, blinded clinical trials in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute. The trials found that the breast cancer risk reduction persists long after women stop taking tamoxifen.Tamoxifen is used both to treat breast cancer and to prevent it among women at high risk of breast cancer. [click link for full article]
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02.24.07
Posted in Uncategorized at 12:00 am by Breast Cancer News From Medical News Today
Why are African American women 1.5 to 2.2 times more likely than white women to die from breast cancer, despite their lower incidence of the disease? Is it solely because they have less access to medical care? Maybe not, according to a new analysis that will appear in an upcoming issue of the International Journal of Surgery. [click link for full article]
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Posted in Uncategorized at 12:00 am by Breast Cancer News From Medical News Today
A protein known for its ability to "bridge" interactions between other cellular proteins may spur metastasis in breast cancer, the disease's deadliest stage, a study from Burnham Institute for Medical Research has found.Led by professor Gen-Sheng Feng, Ph.D., and colleagues at Burnham and Royal Victoria Hospital in Montreal, Quebec, the study ranks among the first to more precisely define the cancer role for the protein known as Gab-2. [click link for full article]
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02.23.07
Posted in Uncategorized at 12:00 am by Lung Cancer News From Medical News Today
High expression of a combination of the RRM1 and ERCC1 proteins has been shown to be associated with increased lung cancer survival rates, according to a study by researchers from the H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute published in today's issue of The New England Journal of Medicine. [click link for full article]
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Posted in Uncategorized at 12:00 am by Lung Cancer News From Medical News Today
Genentech, Inc. (NYSE: DNA) announced today that a Roche-sponsored Phase III study evaluating two different doses of Avastin(R) (bevacizumab) in combination with gemcitabine and cisplatin chemotherapy met the primary endpoint of prolonging progression-free survival (PFS) in patients with previously untreated, advanced non-squamous, non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), the most common form of the disease. Both doses of Avastin (15 mg/kg or 7. [click link for full article]
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