Breast cancer News

FIRST STEP AGAINST BREAST CANCER
Feb 05, 2006 ... ... at the Palace Nursing & Rehabilitation Center in Kendall who lost his wife to lung cancer, joined his fellow residents in bringing awareness to breast cancer. ...

What Is Breast Cancer?
Feb 05, 2006 ... Breast cancer is a tumor that has become malignant - it has developed from the breast cells. A ‘malignant' tumor can spread to ...

YM Biosciences stock up as report says breast cancer drug ...
Feb 05, 2006 ... (TSX:YM) rose sharply on the Toronto Stock Exchange as a positive report circulated that suggested its breast cancer treatment has shown positive test results. ...

New Cancer Treatment Targets Breast Ducts
Forbes -
Feb 3, 20063 (HealthDay News) -- Delivering chemotherapy drugs directly to breast ducts might make early breast cancer treatment easier on patients and could be as ...

BPW expresses plans for breast cancer awareness drive
Sun St.Kitts/Nevis, St. Kitts and Nevis -
Feb 3, 2006Recognising the need for a more effective means of conveying the significance breast cancer awareness, a local organisation is seriously considering forming a ...

Founder Of Komen Breast Cancer Foundation In Town For Conference
KATV, AR -
Feb 3, 2006Little Rock - In 1978 a women named Susan Komen died from breast cancer at the age of 36. Before Komen died, her sister promised ...

Ams promote breast cancer awareness
Mid Columbia Tri City Herald, WA -
Feb 3, 2006... Breast Cancer Awareness month was in October, but the Americans are teaming with Kennewick General Hospital for Breast Cancer Awareness Night tonight when they ...

Liposomal Doxorubicin Plus Cyclophosphamide Shows Promise in ...
DG News -
Feb 3, 2006... doxorubicin (Myocet) plus cyclophosphamide has demonstrated early favorable results as first-line therapy in metastatic breast cancer, according to phase 2 ...

Radiation cuts risk of breast cancer return
Reuters.uk, UK -
Feb 1, 2006NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Use of radiation therapy reduces the risk that a breast cancer removed with breast-conserving surgery will return, according to a ...

Report: Cancer Lifesavers Underused
CBS News -
Feb 2, 2006... They found a slight increase in the number of people getting colonoscopies and a slight dip in the number of women screened for breast cancer, though the key ...

Regular use of COX-2 inhibitors reduces breast cancer risk
News-Medical.net, Australia -
Feb 2, 2006Regular use of selective COX-2 inhibitors significantly reduces the risk of breast cancer. A case-control study published today ...

Radiation cuts risk of breast cancer return
NewKerala.com, India -
Feb 1, 2006NEW YORK: Use of radiation therapy reduces the risk that a breast cancer removed with breast-conserving surgery will return, according to a report in the ...

Radiation Cuts Risk of Breast Cancer Return
Cancerpage.com, GA -
Feb 2, 2006NEW YORK FEB 01, 2006 (Reuters Health) - Use of radiation therapy reduces the risk that a breast cancer removed with breast-conserving surgery will return ...

Underserved breast cancer patients to get navigators
The State, SC -
Feb 1, 2006CHARLESTON, SC - More help is on the way for breast cancer patients in South Carolina, many of whom are poor, minority residents living in rural areas where ...

Radiation Treatment More Beneficial To Breast Cancer Patients
All Headline News -
Feb 2, 2006New York, New York (AHN) - A medical journal study says that radiation therapy reduces the likelihood that breast cancer, removed with breast-conserving surgery ...

Get a jump on breast cancer
Akron Beacon Journal, OH -
Feb 2, 2006If breast cancer is found early, doctors say it can be a ``life sentence'' -- you can live with it. Have a doctor give you a mammogram ...

Breast Cancer Treatment Offered To Poor, Uninsured
WCIV, SC -
Feb 1, 2006Charleston, SC (AP) - A new program at the Hollings Cancer Center at the Medical University of South Carolina will help breast cancer patients who are poor ...