Breast Cancer News

In a new approach to developing treatments for breast cancer, prostate cancer and enlarged hearts, Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine researchers are zeroing in on a workhorse protein called RSK.

The incidence of advanced breast cancer diagnosis among black women remained 30 percent to 90 percent higher compared to white women between 1992 and 2004, according to new findings by researchers at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center.

THOUSANDS of women battling breast cancer are being warned that taking a popular anti- depressant could slash their chance of survival.

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Only a small number of U.S. women at high risk of breast cancer have chosen to use the drug tamoxifen to lower that risk, according to a study published Monday.

The popular antidepressant drug Paxil may interfere with breast cancer treatments, making patients more likely to relapse and die, researchers in Canada reported on Monday.

February 8, 2010 /EIN PRESSWIRE/ The Institute of Cancer Research has found that women with breast cancer had more manageable side effects when their radiotherapy was delivered in larger - but fewer - doses.

Angela Gildea, who died from breast cancer in 2002, has inspired friends and family to raise A 80,000 for the Countess of Chester Hospital.

Researchers with the National Cancer Institute have found that the prevalence of tamoxifen use for the prevention of breast cancer among women without a personal history of breast cancer is very low.

Women's health advocates, health care professionals, breast cancer survivors and consumers will be in Sacramento on Mondayto discuss and protest cuts to the statewide "Every Woman Counts!" program, which provided free mammograms to underserved women.

The Vera Bradley Foundation for Breast Cancer and the IPFW Women's basketball program teamed up Saturday to raise money for breast cancer research.

In an interview, al-Homsi explained that the screening programme became necessary as there had been an increase in the number of colorectal cancer cases in the country.

Families shared love and pain Saturday during the "Fight Against Cancer" awareness event Saturday at Freda's Rey of Love with two speakers sharing loss and two others healing and hope.

Cancer is the leading cause of death across the world. According to World Health Organisation estimates, unless interventions were launched, 84 million people could die of the disease between 2005 and 2015.

MANISAH M, 54, was diagnosed with third stage breast cancer in July last year. She was suffering from Paget's disease of the nipple in which the cancer, which started in the breast ducts, spread to the skin of the nipple and areola .

Researchers have identified chemicals found in the seeds of pomegranates that may reduce the prevalence of a hormone that plays a role in the development of breast cancer.

Sometimes the best of things are small packages. Jeanne Ready of Charlottetown created Bags of Hope so breast cancer patients could tuck the necessary drainage bags discreetly into them after their surgery.

A recent breakthrough by Finnish researches has led to a new breast cancer treatment.

HYDERABAD: Breast cancer is rapidly rising in India claiming many lives due to lack of early detection and low awareness among the women.

The total number of women in the United States diagnosed with invasive breast cancer rose by 5.5 percent during 2009.