Breast cancer News

Golfers tee off to raise breast cancer awareness
Feb 06, 2006 ... ... After Susan Goodman Komen died of breast cancer at the age 36, her sister Nancy vowed to do what-ever she could to find a cure for the devastating disease. ...

Grant given to cancer program
Feb 06, 2006 ... It is designed to promote the benefits of early detection breast cancer and assist low-income, underserved and minority women get low-cost or free clinical ...

YM Biosciences stock up as report says breast cancer drug ...
Canada East, Canada -
Feb 4, 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 ...

Variety of Breast Cancer Patients Turn to Web for Support
Forbes -
Feb 2, 20062 (HealthDay News) -- A new study suggests a wide range of women take advantage of online support groups after they've been diagnosed wth breast cancer. ...

Partner proteins may help estrogen foster breast cancer
Innovations-Report, Germany -
Feb 3, 2006A new study suggests that the hormone estrogen works in partnership with other proteins to activate or suppress gene activity in breast cancer cells. ...

Walking The Walk To Fight Cancer
Feb 06, 2006 ... Emilie Hall has been fighting breast cancer for 20 years. When she was 12, she lost her mother to the disease. Her grandmother also died of breast cancer. ...

Siena Women's Basketball `Aware' Of Breast Cancer
Siena College Athletics, NY -
Feb 3, 2006... Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference (MAAC) membership-wide initiative, the game will create awareness and raise funds in support of breast cancer research and ...

Breast Cancer Survivors Making Less Informed Decisions
All Headline News -
Feb 3, 2006The report entitled 'Decisions in the Dark' says breast cancer survivors who undergo reconstructive surgery using silicone implants have access to very little ...

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 ...

8th Annual National African American Breast Cancer Conference ...
BlackNews.com (press release), CA -
Feb 2, 2006... and Medical organizations are also expected to attend to discuss a new National Coalition to establish one voice to win the fight against breast cancer in the ...

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 ...

Breast cancer detection camp at SGPGIMS
Lucknow Newsline, India -
Feb 2, 2006... of Endocrine and Breast Surgery, Sanjay Gandhi Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences (SGPGIMS), Lucknow, will hold a free breast cancer detection and ...

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 ...

Boss key to return to work after breast cancer
Globe and Mail, Canada -
Feb 3, 2006Staff The vast majority of working women who develop breast cancer return to their job after treatment and it helps to have an accommodating employer, a new ...