Breast cancer News

Novartis' Femara improves long-term breast cancer survival
Pharmaceutical Business Review -
Mar 24, 2006Women with hormone-sensitive early breast cancer who switched to Novartis' Femara from placebo as part of a landmark trial experienced significant improvements ...

Drug cuts chances of breast cancer returning, say
Haber Saglik, Turkey -
Mar 24, 2006... the risk of the cancer spreading and was of benefit to women even five years after they had finished standard drug therapies for early stage breast cancer. ...

EBCC: Age Is Independent Risk Factor in Early Breast Cancer
MedPage Today, NJ -
Mar 24, 2006NICE, France, March 24 - A 30-year-old woman diagnosed with early stage breast cancer has no better chance of surviving for 10 years than does a woman 30 years ...

Sign Up For Breast Cancer 3-Day Walk
WDIV, MI -
Mar 24, 2006Registration has begun for the Breast Cancer 3-Day walk, which will be held this summer in metro Detroit. The 60-mile walk benefits ...

Their cups runneth over: Imaginations get unhooked for slinky ...
Mar 26, 2006 ... ... s "Cups for a Cure" fund-raiser featured more than three dozen size 38-D bras, each of them turned into works of art to raise money for breast cancer research. ...

Research studies HRT, breast cancer risks
United Press International -
Mar 23, 2006... France, March 23 (UPI) -- A British study of data on 1 million women says hormone replacement therapy raises the risks of some types of breast cancer but not ...

Avastin helps breast cancer patients: study
Reuters -
Mar 22, 2006LONDON (Reuters) - Combining the drug Avastin with standard chemotherapy can keep breast cancer under control for longer in patients with advanced disease ...

Missing breast cancer genes may soon be discovered
PhysOrg.com, VA -
Mar 22, 2006We are closer to finding the missing 80% of breast cancer genes than ever before thanks to the success of the COSMIC database (Catalogue Of Somatic Mutations ...

Younger breast cancer patients more at risk: study
Reuters.uk, UK -
Mar 23, 2006LONDON (Reuters) - Young women under 45 years old diagnosed with early breast cancer have a higher risk of dying from the disease than older patients ...

New breast cancer treatment 'can double life expectancy'
Telegraph.co.uk, United Kingdom -
Mar 22, 2006By Celia Hall, Medical Editor. A new treatment can double the life expectancy of women with advanced breast cancer, it was announced yesterday. ...

Failing blacks who get breast cancer
Newsday, NY -
Mar 22, 2006Nearly one in three black women and one in four Hispanic women fail to receive chemotherapy and other treatments after breast cancer surgery, disparities that ...

Testing misses some breast cancer mutations
Reuters.uk, UK -
Mar 22, 2006... "Women who were familial breast cancer patients were being commercially tested for inherited mutations in BRCA1 and BRCA2, and a very large number had reports ...

Breast Cancer Gene Mutations May Elude Standard Tests
CNN -
Mar 22, 2006... Of 300 breast cancer patients with negative (wild-type) commercial genetic tests for the BRCA genes, the investigators found 35 patients (12%) had genomic ...

Novartis reports positive study results for Femara breast cancer ...
Forbes -
Mar 23, 2006BASEL (AFX) - Novartis AG announced positive study results for breast cancer treatment Femara in post-menopausal women with hormone-related early stage breast ...

Drug can double breast cancer survival
Daily Mail - UK, UK -
Mar 23, 2006... One in nine women in Britain will have breast cancer at some time in their life. There are just over 40,000 cases each year and around 11,000 deaths. ...

Breast cancer drug gets thumbs up
Stuff.co.nz, New Zealand -
Mar 22, 2006It announced that the drug could be given to women with early stage breast cancer. Up to now the expensive drug has only be made ...

Asymmetrical breasts may be cancer risk
Globe and Mail, Canada -
Mar 24, 2006British scientists say they have uncovered a new risk factor that makes some women prone to developing breast cancer. Women with ...

New breast cancer dictionary for doctors
Innovations-Report, Germany -
Mar 24, 2006A new ‘breast cancer dictionary’ is being created to help bridge the gap between patient terminology and complicated medical language, announced The French ...

Genetic test doesn't reveal all breast cancer mutations
Food Consumer, IL -
Mar 22, 2006Breast cancer risk has become easier to manage for women who carry breast cancer-predisposing mutations in BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes since genetic testing for ...