06.25.08

First Breast Cancer Patient Receives Treatment In National Electronic Brachytherapy Registry Launched By Three Physician Societies

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Xoft, Inc. announced the launch and of the EXIBT Study (Electronic Xoft Intersociety Brachytherapy Trial), a national Electronic Brachytherapy patient registry under oversight from three national physician societies, the American Brachytherapy Society (ABS), the American Society of Breast Surgeons (ASBrS), and the American College of Radiation Oncology (ACRO). The first patient was successfully enrolled and treated in the registry by Drs.

Patent Awarded For New Procedure To Detect Cancer Spread

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Eugene A. Woltering, MD, FACS, The James D. Rives Professor of Surgery and Chief of the Sections of Surgical Oncology & Endocrine Surgery at LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans, has been awarded a US Patent for a one-step method to rapidly identify "sentinel nodes;" the lymph nodes most likely to contain early metastasis from a primary cancer.

06.24.08

A Window Into Breast Cancer

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Breast cancer patients and their families might hold the important key to enabling new technologies that can help pinpoint the right treatment for the right patient at the right time. A new genomics project spearheaded by Santa Clara-based Iris BioTechnologies is looking for participants to offer information that will lead to more personalized medicine for the treatment of breast cancer and other deadly illnesses.

A Shot In The Arm Against Breast Cancer

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A breast cancer vaccine currently being tested in a Phase II trial has demonstrated to be safe and well tolerated in patients according to a paper to be published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology. The therapeutic breast cancer vaccine AE37 uses a peptide antigen (immune-stimulating fragment) of a cancer gene known as HER-2/neu. This gene/protein is present in many types of cells, but it is over-expressed in a high proportion of breast cancers as well as many others.

06.21.08

Scientists From The University Of Navarra Find 5 Genes Involved In The Metastasis Of Breast Tumours To The Lung

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The identification of five genes involve in the metastasis of breast tumours to the lung is the principal finding of a scientific team made up of two bodies from the University of Navarra, the Applied Medical Research Centre (CIMA) and the University Hospital of the University of Navarra.Doctor Alfonso Calvo, researcher in the area of Oncology at the CIMA, led the work with the special collaboration of Doctor Ignacio Gil Bazo, cancer specialist from the University Hospital.

06.20.08

New Australian Technology: Detecting Breast Cancer With Hair

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The Australian company Fermiscan, who is using a US synchrotron in the development of a new breast cancer screening test through the analysis of an individual's hair, has demonstrated an accuracy rate of 69% in detecting breast cancer.

New Australian Technology: Detecting Breast Cancer With Hair

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The Australian company Fermiscan, who is using a US synchrotron in the development of a new breast cancer screening test through the analysis of an individual's hair, has demonstrated an accuracy rate of 69% in detecting breast cancer.

CHFR Gene Is Key In Avoiding Road To Breast Cancer

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A University of Michigan study reveals in detail how breast cells produce new cells that are predisposed to become cancerous, unless they receive the protective action of the CHFR gene.CHFR expression is missing in more than a third of breast cancers. Analysis of this gene is also a hot area of interest among researchers trying to explain colorectal, stomach, lung and other forms of cancer.

CHFR Gene Is Key In Avoiding Road To Breast Cancer

Posted in Uncategorized at 3:00 am by Breast Cancer News From Medical News Today

A University of Michigan study reveals in detail how breast cells produce new cells that are predisposed to become cancerous, unless they receive the protective action of the CHFR gene.CHFR expression is missing in more than a third of breast cancers. Analysis of this gene is also a hot area of interest among researchers trying to explain colorectal, stomach, lung and other forms of cancer.

06.19.08

Bavarian Nordic Reports Interim Data From Phase I/II Studies With Breast Cancer Vaccine

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Bavarian Nordic's cancer research unit, BN ImmunoTherapeutics, hascompleted an interim analysis of its first two clinical studies withMVA-BN(R)-HER2, a cancer vaccine immunotherapy for breast cancer patients. The first study, performed in the US, is evaluating MVA-BN(R)-HER2treatment following chemotherapy and Herceptin(R) treatment.

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