Breast cancer News

Breast cancer fund seeking grant proposals
Jan 07, 2006 ... The Andrea Fox Fund is accepting proposals for $45,000 in grant funds to support services for breast health, breast cancer prevention and treatment. ...

Obesity and its role in breast cancer
Hindustan Times, India -
Jan 5, 2006Past studies have generally suggested a link between obesity and breast cancer, but now several studies have surfaced to contend this view. ...

Breast cancer gene predicts survival
Monsters and Critics.com, UK -
Jan 5, 2006EVANSTON, IL, United States (UPI) -- Researchers say a gene expressed during breast cancer may help predict the outcome of the disease. ...

Study: Coffee May Help Fight Breast Cancer
NBC 4.com, DC -
Jan 5, 2006They said those who drank six or more cups of regular coffee a day cut their risk of breast cancer by nearly 70 percent in comparison to women who did not ...

Breast Cancer Chemotherapy Increases Heart Damage Risk
Cancerpage.com, GA -
Jan 5, 2006NEW YORK JAN 05, 2006 (Reuters Health) - Chemotherapy, especially anthracycline-based therapy, for breast cancer in older women increases their risk of ...

Computer programme evaluates breast cancer risk
Hindustan Times, India -
Jan 5, 2006Scientists have developed a computer programme to evaluate a woman's individual risk of developing breast cancer. Charity Cancer ...

Motherhood after breast cancer?
Pregnancy and Baby, AZ -
Jan 5, 2006A quarter of young breast cancer sufferers have reported no discussion of fertility issues at the time of diagnosis, despite the possibility of infertility ...

University Huggins Lectures will explain genetics of breast cancer
Jan 07, 2006 ... Chronicle -
Jan 5, 2006By Katie Brandt. People in the United States spend an estimated $3.8 billion on breast cancer treatment each year—and to some avail. ...

New test to become available for breast cancer
Hindustan Times, India -
Jan 5, 2006A new diagnostic tool for breast cancer that will allow doctors to look at the genetic make-up of tumours to personalise treatment could be available later ...

Ask The Doctor: Inflammatory Breast Cancer
KSDK, MO -
Jan 5, 2006... for early cancer detection. But there's more then one kind of breast cancer, including one that grows without a detectable mass. ...

Computer-Aided System Helps Detect Breast Cancer Early
10News.com, CA -
Jan 5, 2006... cancers earlier. "I do self exams and did not detect a lump or anything," said Phyllis Zawacki, a breast cancer patient. Three months ...

`Treatment of future' for breast cancer
Toronto Star, Canada -
Jan 5, 2006A simple one-hour radiation therapy for early-stage breast cancer is well on its way to becoming the standard of treatment in future, says its leading Toronto ...

Coffee may lower breast cancer risk for some women
Reuters.uk, UK -
Jan 3, 2006NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Women with BRCA1 gene mutations, which confer a high risk of developing breast cancer, might decrease their risk by drinking a lot ...

Coffee could reduce breast cancer risk: report
ABC Online, Australia -
Jan 3, 2006Women with gene mutations that carry a high risk of developing breast cancer could decrease their risk by drinking a lot of coffee, a Canadian research team ...

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 ...

Most cancer patients don’t quit their jobs
MSNBC -
Jan 4, 2006... Married women with breast cancer whose health insurance is through their husband’s employer are more likely to take time off than married women with breast ...