Breast Cancer:
Breast Cancer treatment and symptoms, breast cancer information and signs of breast cancer. Updates and research on breast cancer detection and treatment.
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Jun 10th, 2009
Researchers have found links between an individual’s genetics and their response to treatment with chemotherapy. The findings show how a genetic variant, located in the SOD2 gene, may affect how a person responds to the chemotherapy drug cyclophosphamide. Cyclophosphamide is used in the treatment of breast and other cancers.
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Jun 8th, 2009
Results of a new study show that many women with breast cancer take antioxidant supplements in high doses, despite lack of evidence of the benefits. The most widely consumed antioxidants include vitamin C, vitamin E, beta-carotene, and selenium – antioxidants that might even interfere with breast cancer treatment.
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Jun 3rd, 2009
A gene well known to stop or suppress cancer plays a role in cancer stem cells. The researchers found that several pathways linked to the gene, called PTEN, also affected the growth of breast cancer stem cells.
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Jun 2nd, 2009
External beam partial breast irradiation (EB-PBI) is the most cost-effective method for treating postmenopausal women with early-stage breast cancer based on utilities, recurrence risks and costs when compared to whole breast radiotherapy (WBRT) and brachytherapy partial breast irradiation (brachy-PBI).
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May 27th, 2009
A team of researchers has found an association between breast cancer survival and two proteins that, when present in the blood in high levels, are indicators of inflammation.
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May 24th, 2009
A Dartmouth study found that patients with breast cancer had additional breast cancer tumors that were not found on mammogram or ultrasound. Undetected breast cancer tumors were discovered using MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) in twenty-percent of women.
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May 23rd, 2009
Women with ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) who exhibit an overexpression of the protein HER2/neu have a six-fold increase in risk of invasive breast cancer.
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May 19th, 2009
Hannah Powell-Auslam is 10 years old. She is a 5th grade student who lives in Fullerton, California. She is also has a very common disease in women, but very rare in girls who are 10 years old. She has breast cancer.
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May 18th, 2009
Standard chemotherapy is more effective than an oral drug, capecitabine, following surgery in older women with early breast cancer.
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May 16th, 2009
Researchers have implicated the loss of a stromal protein called caveolin-1 as a major new prognostic factor in patients with breast cancer, predicting early disease recurrence, metastasis and breast cancer patient survival.
