Breast cancer News

Fighting breast cancer
Jan 04, 2006 ... ... she works for The Oregonian. She chronicles her battle with breast cancer in this biweekly series. She is a former president of ...

Area notes: Breast cancer group
Jan 04, 2006 ... MARLBOROUGH -- BREAST CANCER GROUP: A Breast Cancer Support Group will meet Wednesday, Jan. 4, from 7 to 8:30 pm in the Schwartz ...

Siblings helping researchers unlock causes of breast cancer
Jan 04, 2006 ... ... 2006 as a tribute to her sister and as a commitment to helping researchers explore how the environment and genes affect the chances of getting breast cancer. ...

strides against breast cancer
Jan 04, 2006 ... ... Hospital,” she said. The digital mammography unit will enhance screening and detection of breast cancer. Ms Sanders hopes the ...

Breast Cancer Breakthrough At Moses Cone
Jan 04, 2006 ... ... more frequently, given every two weeks instead of every three weeks or every four weeks, we actually can induce a better response in the breast cancer," says Dr ...

Hoping to cast out breast cancer
NorthJersey.com, NJ -
Jan 2, 2006... The project was conceived by Mary Ellen Scherl of Tenafly, an established artist who had a lumpectomy after her own breast cancer scare, and whose mother was ...

New breast cancer drug improves recurrence rates
StaffNurse.com, UK -
Jan 3, 2006Campaigners stepped up pressure for England to recognise a new breast cancer drug after research showed it was more effective than tamoxifen. ...

Communities Coming Together to Explore Environmental Links to ...
Coastal Post, CA -
Jan 2, 2006Marin Breast Cancer Watch, Kaiser Permanente of Northern California and the University of California San Francisco invite the community to participate in a ...

Gene Variation Affects Tamoxifen's Benefit For Breast Cancer
Medical News Today (press release), UK -
Dec 31, 2005One of the most commonly prescribed drugs for breast cancer, tamoxifen, may not be as effective for women who inherit a common genetic variation, according to ...

New drug shows hope in fight against breast cancer
Canton Repository (subscription), OH -
Jan 1, 2006By MARILYNN MARCHIONE AP MEDICAL WRITER. Women now have another drug they can take to prevent breast cancer from returning after surgery to remove the tumor. ...

Letrozole Improves Breast Cancer Survival
Forbes -
Dec 28, 200528 (HealthDay News) -- Postmenopausal breast cancer patients who take letrozole, one of a new class of drugs called aromatase inhibitors, reduce their risk of ...

Drug OK'd to Fight Breast Cancer Relapse
Forbes -
Dec 28, 2005Women now have another drug they can take to prevent breast cancer from returning after surgery to remove the tumor. The federal ...

Newer drug beats tamoxifen for preventing breast cancer recurrence
San Diego Union Tribune, United States -
Dec 28, 2005By Marilynn Marchione. Women now have another drug they can take to prevent breast cancer from returning after surgery to remove the tumor. ...

Newer drug effective against early breast cancer
MSNBC -
Dec 28, 2005A second member of a new class of drugs has proved more effective than the gold standard, tamoxifen, at preventing breast cancer from recurring in women who ...

Breast cancer drug 'is better than tamoxifen'
Telegraph.co.uk, United Kingdom -
Dec 28, 2005By Celia Hall, Medical Editor. New results on a drug for breast cancer show that it is most effective in women at the highest risk of the disease returning. ...

Fresh hopes for life-saving breast cancer drug
The Observer, UK -
Dec 28, 2005Hopes that new breast cancer drugs might save thousands more lives were raised again last night with the publication of further promising evidence to suggest ...

UPDATE 1-FDA OKs broader Novartis breast cancer drug use
Reuters -
Dec 28, 2005BOSTON, Dec 28 (Reuters) - Novartis AG (NOVN.VX: Quote, Profile, Research) said on Wednesday that US regulators have approved its breast cancer drug Femara for ...

Results Published in Journal of Clinical Oncology Affirm Survival ...
Jan 04, 2006 ... ... to whole brain radiation therapy (WBRT) may improve survival and response rates in patients with brain metastases, particularly those from breast cancer. ...

Novartis says FDA expands use of breast cancer drug
Reuters -
Dec 28, 2005... Quote, Profile, Research) said on Wednesday that the US Food and Drug Administration has approved the expanded use of the company's breast cancer drug Femara. ...

Broader Novartis breast cancer drug use approved
ABC News -
Dec 28, 2005BOSTON (Reuters) - Novartis AG said on Wednesday that US regulators have approved its breast cancer drug Femara for use in certain post-menopausal women with ...

Novartis breast cancer drug use approved
Reuters.uk, UK -
Dec 28, 2005BOSTON (Reuters) - Novartis (NOVN.VX: Quote, Profile, Research) said on Wednesday that US regulators have approved its breast cancer drug Femara for use in ...

Another Breast Cancer Drug OKd
Los Angeles Times, CA -
Dec 29, 2005MELVILLE, NY — Post- menopausal women have another option to treat early-stage breast cancer with the approval Wednesday of a drug aimed at stopping ...

FDA approves early breast cancer drug
Jan 04, 2006 ... Tribune, United States -
Dec 29, 2005... DC -- The Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday approved the use of Femara as initial therapy for women past menopause who have early breast cancer. ...

'Kylie effect' boosts cancer fight
Jan 04, 2006 ... By Khushwant Sachdave, Daily Mail. More women are asking to be screened for breast cancer as a result of Kylie Minogue's diagnosis with the disease. ...