09.27.08
Posted in Uncategorized at 7:58 am by American Cancer Society :: News and Features
The 3 major news networks teamed up to raise funds for cancer research.
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Posted in Uncategorized at 7:58 am by American Cancer Society :: News and Features
A
Journal of the
National Cancer Institute study offers women a detailed picture of the risk of recurrence years after treatment.
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Posted in Uncategorized at 7:58 am by American Cancer Society :: News and Features
Virtual colonoscopy is about as effective as traditional colonoscopy in finding colorectal cancer and large polyps, according to a new large study.
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Posted in Uncategorized at 7:58 am by American Cancer Society :: News and Features
Lance Armstrong has returned to cycling to take his "Live Strong" message worldwide.
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Posted in Uncategorized at 4:00 am by Breast Cancer News From Medical News Today
Free DVD for Breast Cancer Patients Revealing Range of Alternatives. An inequality in breast reconstruction options for mastectomy patients has been highlighted by a West Sussex hospital.
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Posted in Uncategorized at 1:00 am by Breast Cancer News From Medical News Today
For women whose breast cancer has spread to their lymph nodes, a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scan could replace exploratory surgery as the method for determining whether those women need radiation therapy to treat their disease, according to a study to be presented during the annual meeting of the American Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology (ASTRO) which opens in Boston.
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Posted in Uncategorized at 1:00 am by Breast Cancer News From Medical News Today
A new federal project, funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, will lead efforts to develop, implement and evaluate four computer-based decision-support tools that will help clinicians and patients better use genetic tests to evaluate and treat breast cancer. The first pair of tools will assess whether a woman with a family history of cancer should be tested for BRCA1 and BRCA2 gene mutations.
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09.26.08
Posted in Uncategorized at 8:00 am by Breast Cancer News From Medical News Today
Two widely used prediction models for identifying a woman's risk for breast and ovarian cancer appear to be less reliable for Asian-American women compared with white women, according to a study in the October issue of the Journal of Clinical Oncology, Reuters Health reports. For the study, lead researcher Allison Kurian of
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Posted in Uncategorized at 7:00 am by Breast Cancer News From Medical News Today
ImClone Systems Incorporated (NASDAQ: IMCL), a global leader in the development and commercialization of novel antibodies to treat cancer, today announced that its disease-directed randomized Phase 2 clinical trial of IMC-A12, ImClone's fully human, IgG1 anti-insulin-like growth factor-1 receptor (IGF-1R) monoclonal antibody, in women with advanced breast cancer has commenced patient enrollment.
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Posted in Uncategorized at 5:00 am by Breast Cancer News From Medical News Today
Three enzymes called phosphatases that shut down a molecule called SRC-3 (steroid receptor coactivator 3) could provide a new pathway for fighting cancer, particularly tumors of the breast and prostate, said researchers at Baylor College of Medicine in a report that appears in the current issue of the journal Molecular Cell. "This kind of information provides a target for the production of drugs against cancer," said Dr.
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