Breast cancer News

New Research Shows Artificial Light at Night Stimulates Breast ...
Jan 05, 2006 ... The study results might explain why female night shift workers have a higher rate of breast cancer. It also offers a promising new ...

Research adds to concerns about surgeons performing occasional ...
Jan 05, 2006 ... A leading cancer expert has expressed concern about the link between hospitals carrying out low numbers of breast cancer operations and disproportionately high ...

New Products Are Expected to Be Introduced to the Cancer Vaccine ...
Jan 05, 2006 ... ... When are the products likely to come to market? Which company is leading the race to develop a breast cancer vaccine? What cancer ...

Breast cancer screenings offered
Jan 05, 2006 ... 9 to Jan. 12. The service aids in the early detection of breast cancer, the most common cause of cancer death among women aged 45 to 55. ...

Healthwatch: Pill, Libido; Coffee, Breast Cancer
Jan 05, 2006 ... (CBS4) BOSTON New evidence suggests that coffee may help fight breast cancer in certain women and that taking the pill may hamper a woman's sex drive. ...

Study identifies protein that increases breast cancer risk
Jan 05, 2006 ... (National-NBC) Jan. 4, 2006 - A special protein could help doctors identify which women are the most likely to die from breast cancer. ...

FDA clears Xoft's Axxent for breast cancer
Jan 05, 2006 ... FREMONT, Calif., Jan. 4 (UPI) -- Xoft said Wednesday it has been cleared to market its Axxent Electronic Brachytherapy System for breast cancer. ...

Drug Approved to Prevent Breast Cancer Recurrence
Forbes -
Jan 3, 2006... Femara (letrozole) has been approved by the US Food and Drug Administration to prevent recurrence of hormone-sensitive early breast cancer among postmenopausal ...

Fighting breast cancer
Indian Country Today, NY -
Jan 3, 2006... she works for The Oregonian. She chronicles her battle with breast cancer in this biweekly series. She is a former president of ...

Siblings helping researchers unlock causes of breast cancer
Dowagiac Daily News, USA -
Jan 3, 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. ...

Area notes: Breast cancer group
MetroWest Daily News, MA -
Jan 3, 2006MARLBOROUGH -- BREAST CANCER GROUP: A Breast Cancer Support Group will meet Wednesday, Jan. 4, from 7 to 8:30 pm in the Schwartz ...

Breast Cancer Breakthrough At Moses Cone
WFMY News 2, NC -
Jan 3, 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 ...

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 ...