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Cancer tests for Kerry’s wife
• Cancer: Breast • Nov 05 04
The wife of losing Democratic US Vice Presidential candidate John Edwards will undergo more tests to determine how far her breast cancer has advanced…
Mammograms not helpful for most women over 80
• Cancer: Breast • Oct 28 04
Breast cancer screening in the US is common among women 80 years of age or older, but it is of little benefit to…
More Women Diagnosed With Breast Cancer
• Cancer: Breast • Oct 28 04
There’s been a dramatic change in the national breast cancer surveillance statistics. Until now, statistics showed that one in eight women is likely to…
Childhood cancer ups later breast cancer risk
• Cancer: Breast • Oct 25 04
Women who survived childhood cancer have an increased risk of developing breast cancer compared with other women their age, the results of the…
Laser zaps liver tumors in breast cancer patients
• Cancer: Breast • Oct 25 04
When breast cancer advances, it can spread (that is, metastasize) to the liver. German researchers now report that laser therapy, which can be…
Breast cancer chemo may increase stroke risk
• Cancer: Breast • Oct 25 04
In general, chemotherapy appears to increase the risk of stroke in patients with breast cancer. However, researchers report in the October 20th…
Early detection ‘best means’ of tackling breast cancer
• Cancer: Breast • Oct 24 04
A new study claims many women are unaware of breast cancer symptoms and do not see their doctors after noticing changes.
The findings come…
Protein associated with aggressiveness in breast & ovarian cancer
• Cancer: Breast • Oct 24 04
A research team led by The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center has found a potential new protein marker for prognosis of…
Expert raises awareness of breast cancer
• Cancer: Breast • Oct 23 04
Dr JoAnne Zujewski, a senior oncologist at the US National Cancer Institute, has visited Oman to support the efforts of the Omani National Association…
Study finds breast cancer test unreliable
• Cancer: Breast • Oct 20 04
There are several methods available to detect breast cancer, but new research finds one may not be effective.
Ductal lavage is a procedure that…
First-pregnancy factors tied to breast cancer risk
• Cancer: Breast • Oct 20 04
New research provides more evidence that childbearing factors, especially those related to a first pregnancy, influence a woman’s risk of breast cancer.
The latest…
Breast cancer screening test deemed inaccurate
• Cancer: Breast • Oct 20 04
A procedure called ductal lavage is not an effective diagnostic test for breast cancer, investigators report.
Ductal lavage involves irrigating the milk ducts -…
Fertility a worry for young breast cancer patients
• Cancer: Breast • Oct 19 04
Many young women diagnosed with breast cancer overestimate their risk of becoming infertile while undergoing treatment, a new study shows.
While chemotherapy for the…
Melissa Etheridge Recovering After Surgery
• Cancer: Breast • Oct 18 04
Melissa Etheridge is recovering at her home in California from two surgeries to treat breast cancer.
Etheridge, 43, said on her Web site…
50,000 Sisters of Women with Breast Cancer Needed to Help Find Causes
• Cancer: Breast • Oct 18 04
A new study that will look at 50,000 sisters of women diagnosed with breast cancer opened today for enrollment across the United States. The…
October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month
• Cancer: Breast • Oct 17 04
According to the Philippine Cancer Society, Inc. (PCSI), breast cancer is one of the leading causes of death among women in the Philippines today.…
New Hope in the Fight Against Breast Cancer
• Cancer: Breast • Oct 16 04
Mammograms have become a rite of passage for 40-year-old American women, and a compulsory exercise for those over 40.
But as rote as those…
Body image matters to older breast cancer patients
• Cancer: Breast • Oct 14 04
Older women who undergo surgery for breast cancer often worry about their appearance afterward, and getting the treatment that best meets these concerns may…
Breast density reduces mammogram accuracy
• Cancer: Breast • Oct 05 04
Women in their 40s, who tend to have relatively dense breast tissue, are more likely to have a breast tumor missed on a screening…
Group therapy doesn’t extend breast cancer survival
• Cancer: Breast • Oct 01 04
Women who seek support in coping with early-stage breast cancer through group counseling sessions don’t appear to improve their odds of surviving the disease,…
Group therapy doesn’t extend breast cancer survival
• Cancer: Breast • Oct 01 04
Women who seek support in coping with early-stage breast cancer through group counseling sessions don’t appear to improve their odds of surviving the disease,…
Gene may sway fish oil’s breast cancer benefit
• Cancer: Breast • Sep 29 04
Fish oil may help lower the risk of breast cancer, but the benefit may depend largely on a woman’s genetic makeup, researchers have found.
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Testosterone may counter HRT’s cancer effects
• Cancer: Breast • Sep 14 04
When added to conventional hormone replacement therapy (HRT), testosterone may reduce the risk of breast cancer in postmenopausal women, results of a small study…
High-risk breast cancer needs MRI detection - study
• Cancer: Breast • Sep 14 04
Women with a high genetic risk for breast cancer run a better chance of having it detected with magnetic resonance imaging than with mammography…
Many women get first mammogram, delay further ones
• Cancer: Breast • Sep 13 04
Most women are getting their first mammogram screenings for breast cancer at the recommended age of 40, but few are returning for yearly screening,…