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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Mar 18th, 2009
Researchers have identified genes associated with the BRCA1 protein and their involvement in the DNA repair pathway, helping to clear the way for researchers to better understand what goes wrong when the breast cancer protein BRCA1 gene is mutated and the repair pathway goes haywire.
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Mar 11th, 2009
Breast cancer patients 35 years old and younger have higher rates of their cancer returning after treatment than older women patients with the same stage of cancer, and their risk of recurrence is greatly impacted by the type of treatment they received.
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Mar 9th, 2009
Red wine has many beneficial compounds that promote health. Researchers at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center find that neither red wine nor white wine can offer women protection from breast cancer. Drinking red and white wine increases a woman’s chances of breast cancer.
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Mar 2nd, 2009
Women who've had a breast biopsy know the anxiety of waiting for the results, but that stress may cause adverse health effects.
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Feb 25th, 2009
Gentle Restorative Yoga was shown to help women with breast cancer in a small, but significant study that shows how mind-body therapies can help people with cancer.
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Feb 24th, 2009
The vast majority of triple negative breast cancers express the MUC-1 target.
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Feb 20th, 2009
Minimally invasive breast surgery may be trading better cosmetic outcomes for worse rates of cure.
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Feb 16th, 2009
Researchers found a new hotspot for breast cacner risk in Asian women, report investigators from Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center. The finding may help to guide efforts to find the specific genes linked with non-inherited forms of breast cancer.
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Feb 11th, 2009
In a study published in the New England Journal of Medicine, it was found that Zometa (zoledronic acid) reduces risk of breast cancer recurrence in premenopausal women. It was found that by adding Zometa to post-surgery hormone therapy there was a reduced risk of breast cancer return or death of 36% compared to hormone therapy alone.
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Feb 9th, 2009
A study shows that breast cancer that occurs during pregnancy or within one year after pregnancy is usually diagnosed late, previously associated with poorer outcomes. The result has lead researchers to clarify outcomes associated with pregnancy induced breast cancer in younger women.
