Breast cancer News

Wellness Center offers exercise for breast cancer patients
Jan 14, 2006 ... A breast cancer survivor is using therapeutic movements and dance exercises to fight cancer through a program known as the Lebed Method/Focus on Healing Program ...

Breast Cancer Site to Remain 'Under Construction': By its Readers
Jan 14, 2006 ... A new website for those exploring breast cancer issues will evolve based on reader feedback. According to its creator, the site ...

Bowl For a Cure To Benefit Breast Cancer Research
Jan 14, 2006 ... Bowl a strike and you could help find a cure for breast cancer. ... All proceeds benefit the Lubbock area affiliate of the Susan G. Komen breast cancer foundation. ...

New drug slows down breast cancer
Jan 14, 2006 ... ... Femara (letrozole) has been approved by the US Food and Drug Administration to prevent recurrence of hormone-sensitive early breast cancer among postmenopausal ...

Breast Cancer During Pregnancy Doesn’t Affect Babies
Jan 14, 2006 ... ... 13 - Women diagnosed with breast cancer shortly before or during a pregnancy have little reason to worry that the developing fetus will be affected, reported ...

Genes affect benefits of breast cancer drug
Reuters -
Jan 12, 2006NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - The gene for an enzyme called cytochrome P450 2D6 (CYP2D6) influences how well the breast cancer drug tamoxifen works and whether ...

Jazzercise Group Raises Money for Breast Cancer
Shore Publishing, CT -
Jan 12, 2006Waterford - For the last eight years, Jazzercise of Waterford has held an annual fund-raiser for breast cancer awareness at the Williams School in New London ...

Lib Dems: Cancer care variations unacceptable
Politics.co.uk, UK -
Jan 12, 2006Today's report by the public accounts committee reveals that while 80 per cent of breast cancer patients are referred to a specialist within two weeks of ...

Palladium Brachytherapy Feasible as Adjuvant Treatment of Early ...
Cancerpage.com, GA -
Jan 12, 2006... Reuters Health) - Partial breast irradiation using radioactive palladium (Pd-103) seed implants is a feasible option for early-stage breast cancer treated with ...

Life beyond breast cancer — Delhi woman tells how
Khaleej Times, United Arab Emirates -
Jan 10, 2006NEW DELHI — She is not just another woman who has overcome breast cancer. The 38-year-old's trauma has led to a moving autobiography ...

Summary Box: New breast cancer treatments
Miami Herald, FL -
Jan 10, 2006SPEEDIER TREATMENT: A new approach to breast cancer treatment can cut radiation therapy down from the usual six weeks to five days. ...

Cancer patients plead to make drug cheap
Melbourne Herald Sun, Australia -
Jan 11, 2006BREAST cancer patients have called on drug company Roche to speed up a process to make breast cancer drug Herceptin cheaper. Law ...

Breast cancer therapy studied
Akron Beacon Journal, OH -
Jan 10, 2006WASHINGTON - Radiation may get a little easier for thousands of breast cancer patients: Doctors now can target cancer-killing beams just at the tumor site ...

Surveillance Mammography Underutilized in Breast Cancer Survivors
Cancer Consultants (press release), TN -
Jan 10, 2006... Center have reported that only 57% of older women have annual screening mammography in the 3 years following treatment for localized breast cancer.[1] In a ...

5-day therapy tried for breast cancer
Kansas City Star, MO -
Jan 11, 2006WASHINGTON — Radiation may get a little easier for thousands of breast cancer patients: Doctors are experimenting with cancer-killing beams just at the tumor ...