Thursday, March 3, 2011

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News31 new results for breast cancer research
 
Lymph Node Study Highlights Need For Trial Participants
WIBW
(WIBW) - A new study suggests some breast cancer patients might be able to avoid surgery to remove their lymph nodes. But the findings won't change the standard of care just yet. In fact, some medical experts say they point out why it's important for ...
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Smoking increases breast cancer risk, study finds
ABC Online
The highest breast cancer risk was found among women who had smoked for more than 50 years or more compared with lifetime non-smokers. The research was done by Dr Juhua Luo from West Virginia University and Dr Karen Margolis from the HealthPartners ...
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Obesity Linked to Aggressive Breast Cancer
TopNews United States
The study was led by Fred Hutchinson from the Cancer Research Center in Seattle. The type of cancer such women were more prone to developing is known as triple negative breast cancer that lacks estrogen, progesterone and HER2 protein. ...
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TopNews United States
Newnan tennis teams collect over $500 in cancer research fundraiser
Newnan Times-Herald
Using the non-region contest as a fundraiser for the Susan B. Komen For the Cure foundation for breast cancer research, tennis teams collected over $500 during the afternoon matches. "Everybody won today," said Newnan tennis coach Hap Hines. ...
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Newnan Times-Herald
More Evidence That Diabetes Can Shorten Your Life
RedOrbit
The large international study to measure diabetes' toll found the disease also raises the risk of dying prematurely from other serious ailments, including heart disease, breast cancer and pneumonia. The research, funded by the Medical Research Council ...
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Study Seeks Ways to Encourage Rural Women to Seek Mammograms
Nurse.com
Healthcare providers can motivate women in rural areas to seek out breast cancer screenings by appealing to women's instincts as caretakers. In a study published in the March 1 issue of Journal of Consumer Affairs, doctors were able to motivate ...
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Record number of research work at SMS Medical College
Times of India
He said the various field research carried out include oncology, and blood cancer especially breast cancer, paediatric cancers like leukaemia. He said trials of new drugs are going on which would increase the life span of the terminally ill patients. ...
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Scientist receives $4 million Australia fellowship to continue cancer origin ...
News-Medical.net
Institute director Professor Doug Hilton said the fellowship would support the expansion of the institute's breast cancer research program, support new research into other cancers, and help translate the findings into improved therapies for cancer ...
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Grissom Middle holds "Coaches Versus Cancer" basketball game
WNDU-TV
... held Coaches Versus Cancer on Thursday, a girl's basketball game to raise awareness and collect donations for reasearch in the fight against breast cancer. Both teams, the fans, and even the band director wore pink in support of cancer research. ...
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Higher vitamin D cuts cancer risk
ModernMedicine
San Diego — New research suggests that a significantly higher vitamin D intake than previously thought is required to reach blood levels that can prevent or lower the incidence of breast cancer and other major diseases, Newswise.com reports. ...
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Inexpensive new method to accurately differentiate between benign and ...
News-Medical.net
Recent research by doctoral student Sevan Goenezen holds the promise of becoming a powerful new weapon in the fight against breast cancer. His complex computational research has led to a fast, inexpensive new method for using ultrasound and advanced ...
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Scientists Target Aggressive Prostate Cancer
Medical News Today (press release)
The target, a gene called SPINK1, could be to prostate cancer what HER2 has become for breast cancer. Like HER2, SPINK1 occurs in only a small subset of prostate cancers - about 10 percent. But the gene is an ideal target for a monoclonal antibody, ...
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Trainee breast surgeon Laura Johnson to run London Marathon after mum ...
Richmond and Twickenham Times
By Joanna Kilvington » A trainee surgeon inspired to research breast cancer following her mother's diagnosis with the disease is taking on a fresh challenge to help find a cure. Laura Johnson is hoping to raise more than £1500 for Breast Cancer ...
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Cancer researcher feels sense of urgency in work
Fort Wayne Journal Gazette
She's been doing cancer research for more than 18 years, most recently at the Indiana University School of Medicine, where she is a professor, the Vera Bradley Chair in Oncology and co-leader of the IU Simon Cancer Center's breast cancer program. ...
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QUT professor claims research title
Queensland Business Review
"What we have been looking at is the cognitive ability of breast cancer patients after chemotherapy," she says. "We call it chemo brain, where we have found women suffer short and long term memory loss and executive failure in higher level thinking ...
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Study: Americans have twice as much BPA as Canadians
USA Today
She found the disparity in all age groups, although both surveys showed children and adolescents have the highest levels of BPA, which leaches out of consumer products and has been linked in some research to heart disease and breast cancer. ...
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USA Today
Research Gives New Hope to Treating Bowel Cancer
Yahoo! News
Right now, there are clinical trials being conducted to determine whether PARP, a new experimental drug, is able to effectively treat ovarian and breast cancer. This drug is capable of blocking two DNA repair routes simultaneously. ...
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Tackling cases of Herceptin resistance
Irish Medical Times
Prof Mark Pegram, Professor of Medicine and Director of the Translational Research Programme, Braman Breast Cancer Institute, Miami, was involved in the development of the breast cancer drug Herceptin (trastuzumab). "One of the resistance mechanisms on ...
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Irish Medical Times
UK Cannabis Users set to Light up the Sky
PR CannaZine (press release)
However more and more research has shown that there are many illness/conditions that can be treated with Cannabis, (such as Chronic Pain, Alzheimer's and Brest Cancer - McAllister SD, Christian RT, Horowitz MP, Garcia A, Desprez PY (November ...
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Running for cancer fund
Peterlee Mail
TV presenter and broadcaster Gloria Hunniford, who sadly lost her daughter Caron Keating to breast cancer, is patron of Race for Life. She is encouraging women of all ages to enter the event. Gloria said: "Race for Life is very close to my heart and I ...
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Peterlee Mail
Tip-toe through the tulips at Berlin's Lamplight Inn
New Philadelphia Times Reporter
Wilgus said the display will include 850 pink tulips in support of breast cancer research, planted in the shape of a music note inside a 16-foot metal frame welded by an Amish neighbor. During the three-week bloom period, overnight bed and breakfast ...
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Helen of Troy's Gerald J. Rubin to be Honored as Humanitarian of the Year at ...
DigitalJournal.com (press release)
The Housewares Charity Foundation has raised over $20 million for a number of critical causes since its first gala in 1998, and it has contributed $10 million to the Breast Cancer Research Foundation. Commenting on the honor, Mr. Rubin stated "I am ...
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Study says BPA-free plastics still show estrogenic activity
Plastics Today
MCF-7 is a breast cancer cell line that was isolated in the 1970s and is accepted as estrogen responsive. Some of the plastic samples were exposed to common-use stresses for the products they were contained in, including microwaving, UV radiation, ...
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Stem Cell Research Continues to Find New Uses
American Health and Beauty (press release)
Some in the medical community have expressed concern that stem cell fat transfer to the breast may put a patient at a higher risk of breast cancer. Dr. Yoshimura says that at this time, the general belief is that adult stem cells cannot initiate breast ...
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American Health and Beauty (press release)
Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center launches online genetic research tool
Vanderbilt University News
The first two forms of cancer featured on VICC's My Cancer Genome information tool are lung cancer and melanoma, with plans to add content on breast, colon and other cancers in a few months. "We envision that VICC's My Cancer Genome can become a global ...
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Child sex abuse is fueled by public silence
Allentown Morning Call
Tammy Lerner doesn't begrudge breast cancer its pink ribbons, popular fundraising organizations or high-profile walks. She just wishes the battle to combat child sex abuse could attract that kind of support. As a co-founder of the Foundation to Abolish ...
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Health happenings
Fort Worth Star Telegram
A breast cancer support group meets the fourth Tuesday of each month at Texas Health Arlington Memorial Hospital, McRae Building, Room C3. For more information, contact Shirley Harvey, 817 548-6297 or visit texashealth.org. A support group for women ...
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Sectra reveals initial clinical results of color mammography
CisionWire (press release)
The first clinical results from a research project focused on spectral (color) mammography shows promising diagnostic benefits for breast cancer. Published in the February issue of Radiology, the results will be presented at a symposium dedicated to ...
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Kentucky Oaks nominations total 117
Brisnet.com
Churchill Downs and Susan G. Komen for the Cure, the world's largest breast cancer organization, recently announced the renewal of a unique partnership to raise funds for breast cancer awareness and research through events at the historic track on ...
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Venus White® Pro by Heraeus Now Available in 35% Carbamide Peroxide for Faster ...
PR Newswire (press release)
In addition to its complementary marketing program for practices, Heraeus also donates a percentage of revenue from the sale of all Venus White® products to help fund breast cancer research nationwide. In 2010, the Company donated more than $40000. ...
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Grass fires provide real-life assignment for students
LubbockOnline.com
Wyatt Myers suggested making the compass symbol, which is often called a north star or compass rose, pink to support breast cancer research, but the group decided not to do that because the subject didn't involve breast cancer. ...
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Blogs9 new results for breast cancer research
 
Research Pinpoints Genetic Pathways Involved in Breast Cancer |
By Mike
Research Pinpoints Genetic Pathways Involved in Breast Cancer. Posted on March 3 , 2011 by Mike. Physiology Assistant Professor Eran Andrechek has research published in the journal Cancer Research that uncovers a role for several members ...
NatSci News - http://naturalscience.msu.edu/news/
Alternative Cancer News
By JP
An impressive amount of preclinical research conducted by Dr. Shamsuddin and others has revealed some very promising data about the anti-cancer potential of a combination of IP6 and the B-vitamin, inositol. ... A total of 14 women with invasive breast cancer were randomly assigned to receive either IP6 + inositol ( 6 grams/day) or a placebo over the course of 6 months. All of the study participants had just undergone cancer surgery and took part in six cycles of FEC ...
Healthy Fellow - http://www.healthyfellow.com/
Eat Well, Live Well and Avoid Cancer | GovCon Executive
By Beth Hawley
The American Institute of Cancer Research (AICR) recommends these things for you to do to reduce your risk of cancer, as well as reduce your risk of heart disease, stroke and several other health conditions: * Eat a diet rich in plant based foods – fruits, vegetables, ... FLAXSEEDS – Short term studies found flaxseed alters how estrogen is processed in the body and is thought to create a protective effect against breast cancer. (Must be ground to get the benefits.) ...
GovCon Executive - http://www.govconexecutive.com/
Red Meat and Cancer Risk: Fact or Oversimplification?
Animal research found that CLA may protect against cancer, however research reported in the September 2009 issue of American Journal of Clinical Nutrition found no conclusive evidence that CLA provides protection against breast cancer. ...
Suite101: Nutrition Articles - http://www.suite101.com/nutrition
VICC introduces nation's first personalized cancer decision ...
By sara
"We envision that VICC's My Cancer Genome can become a global research and resource platform connecting the entire cancer community, including doctors, researchers, students, patients and caregivers. ... Breast cancer patients who have strong social support are less likely to die. Breast cancer patients who have a strong social support system in the first year after diagnosis are. ...
Biomed Middle East - http://biomedme.com/
Leading experts in cancer and women's health join Herbert Wertheim ...
By llanza
Jackson North is one of the medical school's clinical partners, where she will bring together FIU faculty who are addressing different aspects of cancer research and treatment. Runowicz, a breast cancer survivor herself, said a survivorship component, focusing on the medical concerns that people who are successfully treated for cancer continue to face, will be an important part of developing a multidisciplinary approach to cancer. "It's really where medicine is heading, ...
News at FIU - Florida International... - http://news.fiu.edu/
Eat Right: Foods that fight cancer? | Choose You Blog
By Julie Pippert
Eating a diet rich in fruits and vegetables is associated with good health, but can it help lower your breast cancer risk? Researchers can't say for sure. No study has been able to definitely link the two. As for claims that eating a certain vegetable or ... Nutrients in certain vegetables and fruits, known as antioxidants, appear to protect the body against tissue damage and may lower cancer risk, but again, the research is far from definitive. I know this and still, ...
Choose You Blog - http://blog.chooseyou.com/
Cancer And Science-Based Medicine: Skepticism Vs. Nihilism ...
By DrDavidGorski
The second reference is to an SI article from 2009 entitled "Science and Pseudoscience in Adult Nutrition Research and Practice." There, and only there, did I find out just what it is that Dr. Spector apparently means by " pseudoscience": ... In the Swedish study, only six years of follow-up was needed to demonstrate an increased risk of breast cancer with the postmenopausal use of estradiol. It should be noted, however, that half the women in the subgroup that provided ...
Better Health - http://getbetterhealth.com/
BioSante's Pancreas Cancer Vaccine Shows Survival Increase in ...
By Liz Jones Hollis
The research was funded by the National Institutes of Health and other foundations. BioSante's Pancreas Cancer Vaccine is made from allogeneic pancreatic cancer cells genetically altered to produce an immune system stimulator called GM-CSF, ... "Besides pancreatic cancer, Johns Hopkins researchers also are investigating the use of BioSante's cancer vaccines for the treatment of several different forms of cancer, including leukemia, breast cancer and multiple myeloma. ...
Press Releases - http://www.fiercebiotech.com/press-releases

Web6 new results for breast cancer research
 
Study Finds Smoking Linked to Breast Cancer Risk: MedlinePlus
"The findings are important because smoking was not previously thought to increase the risk of breast cancer, but this study adds to the increasing evidence ...
www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_109375.html
American Institute for Cancer Research (AICR): CRU: Adolescence ...
In order to provide recommendations for breast cancer survivors based on the most current science, AICR and the World Cancer Research Fund (WCRF) is ...
www.aicr.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id...iv...
Having More Kids May Increase Breast Cancer Risk, Fred Hutchinson ...
Having More Kids May Increase Breast Cancer Risk, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center Study 3/1/2011. MSN -- The more times a woman gives birth, ...
biospace.com/news_story.aspx?NewsEntityId=212194
Tissue Analysis May Help Predict Breast Cancer Outcome - Yahoo! News
BreastCancer.org has more about breast cancer symptoms and diagnosis. ... Scientists at The Institute of Cancer Research released a report on March 2 that ...
news.yahoo.com/.../tissueanalysismayhelppredictbreastcancero...
Sr. Research Nurse Job - School of Medicine - Breast Cancer ...
Research job » Sr. Research Nurse Job - School of Medicine - Breast Cancer. Locate interesting scientific jobs.
www.researchgate.net/.../11844_Sr_Research_Nurse_Job-Scho...
A New Link Between Birth and Breast Cancer - iVillage
The research on the triple-negative cancer (meaning it doesn't activate any of the genes associated with the three types of hormone receptors in the breast) ...
www.ivillage.com/new-link-between-birth-and.../6-a-327937


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