Discovery Blocks Breast Cancer Growth, Stimulates Immunity
Discovery of a mechanism blocks the body's natural ability to reject breast cancer, creates new options for treatment.
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Tamoxifen-Resistant Breast Cancers Alter Their Traits, Become Receptive to New Therapies
Breast cancer tumors that stop responding to the drug tamoxifen actually change their cellular characteristics and become responsive to other types of drugs.
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Women Overestimate Breast Cancer Risk, U-M Study Finds
While breast cancer is a significant health threat, a new study finds most women have a distorted view of their risk.
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Bone Test May Predict Infertility in Breast Cancer Patients
Not every breast cancer patient needs chemotherapy, but for those who do, this discovery may be helpful in more accurately predicting who will go into early menopause.
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Gene Changes in Breast Cancer May Keep Drug from Working
A new class of anti cancer drugs that has rarely helped breast cancer patients may perform poorly because of the mutations in a gene the drugs are designed to target.
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American Cancer Society Responds to Low Fat Diet and Breast Cancer Study
Breast cancer recurrence may be decreased by Low Fat Diet, evidence suggests.
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Making the Mammogram Decision
Since the risk for developing breast cancer increases annual mammograms are a good idea for women over age 50.
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Genomic Test Predicted Breast Cancer's Spread to Lymph Nodes
Genomic Test Predicted Breast Cancer's Spread to Lymph Nodes With 90 Percent Accuracy in Most Women, Duke Study Showed.
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Herceptin(R), Chemotherapy and Early Stage Breast Cancer
Herceptin(R) combined with Chemotherapy improves disease free survival for patients with Early Stage Breast Cancer
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Twelve Years After Breast Cancer, Life Is Good For Bone Marrow Transplant Patient
Jeremy McCormick was just 12 years old when his mother's breast cancer struck.
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Bevacizumba Combined With Chemotherapy Improves Progression-Free Survival for Patients With Advanced Breast Cancer
This study is the first to find a benefit of anti angiogenic therapy in patients with breast cancer and represents a major advance in the treatment of patients with metastatic disease.
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Tumor Suppressor Gene is Silenced in Majority of Breast Cancers
Half of women at high risk of developing breast cancer have a specific alteration in their breast cells indicating significant damage has occurred and breast cancer may be imminent.
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New Breast Scanner Can Detect Early Signs of Cancer
Early detection should enable doctors to more successfully treat breast cancer before it has formed a tumor.
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Virtual Reality Helps Breast Cancer Patients Cope with Chemotherapy
Women with breast cancer have fewer adverse effects from chemotherapy and less fatigue when using virtual reality as a distraction intervention during treatments.
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Diving Treatment Offers New Hope for Breast Cancer Patients
Decompression chambers may hold the key to relieving painful side effects of breast cancer treatment.
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New Breast Pap Smear Detects Early Cellular Changes; May Prevent Onset of Breast Cancer
Many scientists have linked specific gene alterations with the development of breast cancer. But further than that, scientists are unclear as to how breast cancers arise.
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Breast Cancer: Curing the Cure
Every year, more than 190,000 women are diagnosed with breast cancer. There is a potential to make the road to recovery much more comfortable for women with breast cancer.
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Solvent, Common Drug Plus Hormones Raise Risk of Reproductive Failures and Breast Cancers
Their findings suggest that estrogen and progestin alone may not be the sole triggers for the increased risk of invasive breast cancers in postmenopausal women who take hormone replacement therapy.
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Hypothyroidism Associated with Reduced Breast Cancer Risk
Research found that women with a common thyroid gland disorder appear to have a reduced chance of developing invasive breast cancer.
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