http://www.breast-cancer-blog.com/blogs/main.html Main From Breast cancer blog Mon, 08 Feb 2010 13:45:00 GMT en-us http://www.breast-cancer-blog.com/images/blogs/breast-cancer-blog-21230 http://www.breast-cancer-blog.com/blogs/main.html 143 100 http://www.breast-cancer-blog.com/blogs/permalinks/2-2010/few-women-take-tamoxifen-to-prevent-breast-cancer.html http://www.breast-cancer-blog.com/blogs/permalinks/2-2010/few-women-take-tamoxifen-to-prevent-breast-cancer.html Mon, 08 Feb 2010 13:45:00 GMT Scientists with the National Cancer Institute (NCI) have observed that the prevalence of tamoxifen use for the prevention of breast cancer among women without a personal history of breast cancer is very low. Tamoxifen can reduce the risk of developing breast cancer in women who are at increased risk for developing the disease. Details of this survey are reported in the recent issue of Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers and Prevention, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research........ ]]> http://www.breast-cancer-blog.com/blogs/permalinks/1-2010/genes-that-cause-resistance-to-breast-cancer-drugs.html http://www.breast-cancer-blog.com/blogs/permalinks/1-2010/genes-that-cause-resistance-to-breast-cancer-drugs.html Mon, 08 Feb 2010 13:45:00 GMT Scientists at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute have discovered a gene activity signature that predicts a high risk of cancer recurrence in certain breast tumors that have been treated with usually used chemotherapy drugs. Despite their resistance to drugs of the anthracycline class, the breast cancers bearing this gene signature will probably still be vulnerable to other types of chemotherapy agents, say researchers in a letter to be published in Nature Medicine on its Web site and later in a print edition. Thus, the findings could lead to a genetic test of breast cancers to help physicians choose the best initial therapy for an individual patient........ ]]> http://www.breast-cancer-blog.com/blogs/permalinks/12-2009/mammography-and-breast-cancer.html http://www.breast-cancer-blog.com/blogs/permalinks/12-2009/mammography-and-breast-cancer.html Mon, 08 Feb 2010 13:45:00 GMT Low-dose radiation from annual mammography screening may increase breast cancer risk in women with genetic or familial predisposition to breast cancer, according to a study presented today at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA). "For women at high risk for breast cancer, screening is very important, but a careful approach should be taken when considering mammography for screening young women, particularly under age 30," said Marijke C. Jansen-van der Weide, Ph.D., epidemiologist in the Department of Epidemiology and Radiology at University Medical Center Groningen in the Netherlands. "Further, repeated exposure to low-dose radiation should be avoided"........ ]]> http://www.breast-cancer-blog.com/blogs/permalinks/10-2009/gene-that-regulates-breast-cancer-metastasis.html http://www.breast-cancer-blog.com/blogs/permalinks/10-2009/gene-that-regulates-breast-cancer-metastasis.html Mon, 08 Feb 2010 13:45:00 GMT Scientists at The Wistar Institute have identified a key gene (KLF17) involved in the spread of breast cancer throughout the body. They also demonstrated that expression of KLF17 together with another gene (Id1) known to regulate breast cancer metastasis accurately predicts whether the disease will spread to the lymph nodes. Previously, the function of KLF17 had been unknown........ ]]> http://www.breast-cancer-blog.com/blogs/permalinks/2-2009/genes-breast-cancer-risk.html http://www.breast-cancer-blog.com/blogs/permalinks/2-2009/genes-breast-cancer-risk.html Mon, 08 Feb 2010 13:45:00 GMT Reporting this week in Nature Genetics, Wei Zheng, M.D., Ph.D, and his colleagues have identified a region on chromosome 6 that is strongly linked to breast cancer susceptibility in Asian women. This genetic "locus" may help guide efforts to find the specific genes linked with sporadic or non-inherited forms of the disease, the authors suggest........ ]]> http://www.breast-cancer-blog.com/blogs/permalinks/2-2009/pregnancy-has-no-impact-on-breast-cancer.html http://www.breast-cancer-blog.com/blogs/permalinks/2-2009/pregnancy-has-no-impact-on-breast-cancer.html Mon, 08 Feb 2010 13:45:00 GMT A newly released study finds women who develop breast cancer while pregnant or soon afterwards do not experience any differences in disease severity or likelihood of survival in comparison to other women with breast cancer. The study is reported in the March 15, 2009 issue of CANCER, a peer-evaluated journal of the American Cancer Society........ ]]> http://www.breast-cancer-blog.com/blogs/permalinks/2-2009/breast-cancer-and-ostmenopausal-hormone-therapy.html http://www.breast-cancer-blog.com/blogs/permalinks/2-2009/breast-cancer-and-ostmenopausal-hormone-therapy.html Mon, 08 Feb 2010 13:45:00 GMT Women who stopped taking the postmenopausal hormone combination of estrogen plus progestin experienced a marked decline in breast cancer risk which was uncorrelation to mammography utilization change, as per a research studyfrom the Women's Health Initiative led by a Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute (LA BioMed) investigator that was published recently in The New England Journal (NEJM)....... ]]> http://www.breast-cancer-blog.com/blogs/permalinks/2-2009/those-women-who-need-radiation.html http://www.breast-cancer-blog.com/blogs/permalinks/2-2009/those-women-who-need-radiation.html Mon, 08 Feb 2010 13:45:00 GMT One-fifth of women who should receive radiation after a mastectomy are not getting this potentially lifesaving treatment, according to a new study from researchers at the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center. The study looked at 396 women who were treated with a mastectomy for breast cancer. The researchers found that 19 percent of women who fell clearly within guidelines recommending radiation treatment after the mastectomy did not receive that treatment........ ]]> http://www.breast-cancer-blog.com/blogs/permalinks/1-2009/digital-mammograms-is-it-efficient.html http://www.breast-cancer-blog.com/blogs/permalinks/1-2009/digital-mammograms-is-it-efficient.html Mon, 08 Feb 2010 13:45:00 GMT Digital mammograms take longer to interpret than film-screen mammograms, as per a research studyperformed at The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas. The study included four radiologists who interpreted 268 digital screening mammograms and 189 film-screening mammograms. "The average interpretation time for all of our readers was 240 seconds (4 minutes) for digital screening mammograms and 127 seconds (2 minutes, 7 seconds) for film-screen screening mammograms," said Tamara Miner Haygood, MD, main author of the study. "The digital screening mammograms took nearly twice as long to interpret as the film-screen screening mammograms," said Dr. Haygood........ ]]> http://www.breast-cancer-blog.com/blogs/permalinks/12-2008/preventing-breast-cancer-with-broccoli.html http://www.breast-cancer-blog.com/blogs/permalinks/12-2008/preventing-breast-cancer-with-broccoli.html Mon, 08 Feb 2010 13:45:00 GMT Women should go for the broccoli when the relish tray comes around during holiday celebrations this season. While it has been known for some time that eating cruciferous vegetables, such as broccoli, cauliflower, and cabbage, can help prevent breast cancer, the mechanism by which the active substances in these vegetables inhibit cell proliferation was unknown until now........ ]]> http://www.breast-cancer-blog.com/blogs/permalinks/11-2008/new-compounds-show-promise.html http://www.breast-cancer-blog.com/blogs/permalinks/11-2008/new-compounds-show-promise.html Mon, 08 Feb 2010 13:45:00 GMT Two new compounds created by a University of Central Florida professor show early promise for destroying breast cancer tumors. Associate Professor James Turkson's compounds disrupt the formation and spread of breast cancer tumors in tests on mice. The compounds, S3I-201 and S3I-M2001, break up a cancer-causing protein called STAT3, and scientists have observed no negative side effects so far........ ]]> http://www.breast-cancer-blog.com/blogs/permalinks/11-2008/breast-cancer--among-women-with-family-history.html http://www.breast-cancer-blog.com/blogs/permalinks/11-2008/breast-cancer--among-women-with-family-history.html Mon, 08 Feb 2010 13:45:00 GMT New data presented at the American Association for Cancer Research's Seventh Annual International Frontiers in Cancer Prevention Research meeting outlines new data, which assesses breast cancer risk among women with a strong family history of breast cancer, but without a BRCA1 or BRCA2 mutation. This may facilitate earlier detection and prevention among high-risk women........ ]]> http://www.breast-cancer-blog.com/blogs/permalinks/10-2008/improving-treatment-of-inherited-breast-cancer.html http://www.breast-cancer-blog.com/blogs/permalinks/10-2008/improving-treatment-of-inherited-breast-cancer.html Mon, 08 Feb 2010 13:45:00 GMT Researchers have identified some of the elusive downstream molecules that play a critical role in the development and progression of familial breast cancer. The research, published by Cell Press in the October 10th issue of the journal Molecular Cell, also identifies a compound found in grapes and red wine as an excellent candidate for therapy of some forms of breast cancer........ ]]> http://www.breast-cancer-blog.com/blogs/permalinks/9-2008/birth-size-and-breast-cancer.html http://www.breast-cancer-blog.com/blogs/permalinks/9-2008/birth-size-and-breast-cancer.html Mon, 08 Feb 2010 13:45:00 GMT Birth size, and in particular birth length, correlates with subsequent risk of breast cancer in adulthood, according to a new study published in PLoS Medicine by researchers at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Associations between birth size, perhaps as a marker of the pre-natal environment, and subsequent breast cancer risk have been identified before, but the findings from epidemiological studies have been inconsistent........ ]]> http://www.breast-cancer-blog.com/blogs/permalinks/9-2008/3-week-radiation-therapy-as-effective.html http://www.breast-cancer-blog.com/blogs/permalinks/9-2008/3-week-radiation-therapy-as-effective.html Mon, 08 Feb 2010 13:45:00 GMT Boston Early-stage patients with breast cancer who receive a more intensive course of radiation to their whole breast over three weeks is as effective as the standard, less intensive five-week whole breast radiation and offers patients more convenience at a lower cost, thereby providing a better quality of life, as per a randomized, long-term study presented September 22, 2008, in the plenary session at the American Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology's 50th Annual Meeting in Boston........ ]]>