Breast cancer News

Maryland Company Developing New Breast Cancer Test Kit
Feb 18, 2006 ... WASHINGTON — Maryland biotech company A&G Pharmaceutical is working to create a breast cancer testing kit to help determine patient treatment options, while ...

Never alone: Young breast cancer survivors make a difference
Feb 18, 2006 ... , at age 32, I was diagnosed with breast cancer. ... But when it didn't go away, we learned the worst: I had breast cancer. ...

Breast Cancer Causing Needless Deaths in British Men
Feb 18, 2006 ... Professor Ian Fentiman – one of Britain’s leading experts in breast cancer – has said that men in Britain are dying of the disease as they continue to be ...

Safeway, workers raise $523,608 for breast cancer
OregonLive.com, OR -
Feb 17, 2006... in Oregon and Southwest Washington collected more than a half-million dollars during a 30-day fundraiser for the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation. ...

Abortion increases breast cancer risk
Woodstock Sentinel Review, Canada -
Feb 16, 2006Abortion increases a woman’s breast cancer risk by about 30 per cent, although among very young women, or women who have never had a child or those with a ...

'Cure Breast Cancer' license plate initiative
Danvers Herald, MA -
Feb 16, 2006The Cure Breast Cancer License Plate Initiative, a volunteer, nonprofit group, is working with the Registry of Motor Vehicles to get the first "Cure Breast ...

Raising awareness of male breast cancer
Watford Observer, UK -
Feb 17, 2006WHEN Liz Burns' husband, Mike, was diagnosed with breast cancer, she felt like she had been "run over by a bus". The shock that ...

Younger Women With Hereditary Breast Cancer Risk Tumor in Other ...
Forbes -
Feb 15, 200615 (HealthDay News) -- Younger women with non-BRCA hereditary breast cancer are up to six times more likely to develop a new cancer in the other breast in the ...

Breast cancer sufferer loses Herceptin case
Reuters.uk, UK -
Feb 15, 2006LONDON (Reuters) - A woman with early-stage breast cancer lost a test case legal battle on Wednesday to force her health authority to pay for the potentially ...

Breast cancer patient loses Herceptin legal battle
Times Online, UK -
Feb 15, 2006A divorced mother of three has lost her legal bid to force her local health authority to prescribe the drug Herceptin to prevent her breast cancer recurring. ...

Ruling in fight for breast cancer drug
Channel 4 News, UK -
Feb 15, 2006A breast cancer patient will find out later if she has won a landmark legal challenge to get Herceptin on the NHS in a test case that will have wide ...

Judgement due in Herceptin breast cancer case
Reuters.uk, UK -
Feb 14, 2006LONDON (Reuters) - Breast cancer victim Anne Rogers will learn on Wednesday if her test case legal battle to force the National Health Service to fund costly ...

Non-BRCA1/2 hereditary breast cancer linked to new cancers
News-Medical.net, Australia -
Feb 14, 2006... risk for a new cancer in the unaffected breast substantially increases in women diagnosed with unilateral, hereditary (non-BRCA1/2) breast cancer, according to ...

Breast Cancer Funding To Be Extended By Another $30 Million ...
MedIndia, India -
Feb 14, 2006... to hold a meeting regarding extension of funding for the cancer drug Herceptin that would allow the provision of drug to women with early breast cancer. ...

Exposure To Light May Increase Breast Cancer Risk
NBC6.net, FL -
Feb 14, 2006... who worked night shifts or were exposed to light in the nighttime hours when most people are asleep had an increased risk of breast cancer," said University of ...

Niagara Athletics, Memorial Team Up to Host Breast Cancer ...
NU Purple Eagles.com, NY -
Feb 14, 2006... University athletics department, Independent Health and Niagara Falls Memorial Medical Center, the Purple Eagles will present Breast Cancer Awareness Day on ...

Intensive Therapy May Benefit Women With Breast Cancer of a Poor ...
Cancerpage.com, GA -
Feb 14, 2006... of adjuvant dose-intensive epirubicin and cyclophosphamide administered with filgrastim and progenitor cell support, may benefit women with breast cancer of a ...