Roche reports progress in breast cancer treatment
Reuters - Wed Dec 9, 6:56 am ETRoche Holding AG said on Wednesday three studies on its drugs used to treat early and advanced breast cancer showed good results.
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Abraxis Provides Overview of ABRAXANE® Study Results to Be Presented at the 32nd Annual San Antonio Breast Cancer ...
Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance - Tue Dec 8, 8:05 am ETLOS ANGELES----Abraxis BioScience, Inc. , a fully integrated biotechnology company, today announced that multiple clinical studies of the chemotherapy agent ABRAXANE® for Injectable Suspension will be presented at the 32nd Annual San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium , being held in San Antonio, Texas from December 9 to December 13.
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Decline in Breast Cancer: Not Just Because of Hormone Therapy
Newswise - Mon Dec 7, 8:22 pm ET1) WHI results led to decrease in hormone use; 2) Women experienced steep decline in breast cancer; 3) Only part of that decline can be attributed to hormone use.
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Isolation and stress identified as contributing to breast cancer risk
EurekAlert! - Mon Dec 7, 3:28 pm ET( University of Chicago ) Social isolation and related stress could contribute to human breast cancer susceptibility, research from a rat model designed at the University of Chicago to identify environmental mechanisms contributing to cancer risk shows. The researchers found that isolation and stress result in a 3.3-fold increase in the risk of developing cancer among rats with naturally ...
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Men need to check for breast cancer, too
seattlepi.com - Mon Dec 7, 5:52 pm ETWhile breast cancer is much more unusual in men than in women, it's also deadlier.
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Isolation, Stress May Contribute to Breast Cancer Risk
Newswise - Mon Dec 7, 4:36 pm ETSocial isolation and related stress could contribute to human breast cancer susceptibility, research from a rat model designed to identify environmental mechanisms contributing to cancer risk shows. The research establishes, for the first time, that isolation and stress could be a factor in human breast cancer risk.
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AACR names Perou 2009 Outstanding Investigator for Breast Cancer Research
EurekAlert! - Mon Dec 7, 12:01 pm ET( University of North Carolina School of Medicine ) Calling his work "one of the most important findings in breast cancer and health disparities in the last decade," the American Association for Cancer Research has named Charles M. Perou, Ph.D., the 2009 Outstanding Investigator Award for Breast Cancer Research, funded by Susan G. Komen for the Cure.
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Breast Cancer's Spread Now Better Understood
HealthDay via Yahoo! News - Sun Dec 6, 2:04 pm ETSUNDAY, Dec. 6 (HealthDay News) -- The spread of breast cancer cells from the main tumor to other parts of the body is controlled by a growth factor known as TGFb, which may prove a promising target for new drugs to prevent metastatic breast cancer, British researchers say.
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MSU honors breast cancer 'Race for Cure' founder
Lansing State Journal - Mon Dec 7, 1:44 pm ETEAST LANSING The founder of the Susan D. Komen Race for the Cure road-running series that's raised $1.3 billion to fight breast cancer is speaking at Michigan State University's December graduation. Nancy Brinker named the races for a sister killed by breast cancer. She talks Saturday on the second day of Michigan State's commencements and gets an honorary doctorate of humanities. Other speakers ...
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Alice Crisci: Surviving Breast Cancer, Heartbreak, And Depression
The Huffington Post - Mon Dec 7, 2:44 pm ETAs I struggle to reinvent my life in the wake of breast cancer, financial ruin and clinical depression, I realize that what I need most is predictability, routine, familiarity.
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Vail ski instructors race to raise breast cancer funds
Vail Daily - Mon Dec 7, 6:54 pm ETVAIL, Colorado - Three Vail ski instructors are participating in the K2 Pink Chase on Saturday at Keystone in memory of Mindy Mandel, a fellow Vail instructor who lost her battle to breast cancer in 2007, as well as other friends, family and those they don't know who have been touched by this disease. The tight knit group of women, Carrie Larson, Pam Peterson and Betsey Kiehl, signed up after ...
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Breast Cancer Patients and Soy
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Health: New Cancer Statistics, Breast Cancer Study
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Task force says it poorly communicated breast cancer guidelines
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State program cuts funding for mammograms for women under 50
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