http://www.breast-cancer-blog.com/ New Article Alert From From Breast cancer blog Thu, 21 Jul 2011 04:33:54 GMT en-us http://www.breast-cancer-blog.com/images/blogs/new-article-alert-45320.jpg http://www.breast-cancer-blog.com/ 143 100 http://www.breast-cancer-blog.com/blogs/permalinks/7-2011/a-new-breast-cancer-drug.html http://www.breast-cancer-blog.com/blogs/permalinks/7-2011/a-new-breast-cancer-drug.html Thu, 21 Jul 2011 04:33:54 GMT A new drug targeting the PI3K gene in patients with advanced breast cancer shows promising results in an early phase I investigational study conducted at Virginia G. Piper Cancer at Scottsdale Healthcare, as per a presentation by oncologist Dr. Daniel D. Von Hoff at the 47th annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO)........ ]]> http://www.breast-cancer-blog.com/blogs/permalinks/4-2011/new-way-to-predict-breast-cancer-survival.html http://www.breast-cancer-blog.com/blogs/permalinks/4-2011/new-way-to-predict-breast-cancer-survival.html Thu, 21 Jul 2011 04:33:54 GMT A team of scientists at the University of California, San Francisco has discovered a new way to predict breast cancer survival based on an "immune profile" � the relative levels of three types of immune cells within a tumor. Knowing a patient's profile may one day help guide therapy. Moreover, the UCSF team showed that they could use drugs to alter this immune profile in mice. Giving these drugs to mice, in combination with chemotherapy, significantly slowed tumor growth, blocked metastasis and helped mice live longer, suggesting that the approach may work in people........ ]]> http://www.breast-cancer-blog.com/blogs/permalinks/3-2011/breast-cancer-patients-worry-excessively.html http://www.breast-cancer-blog.com/blogs/permalinks/3-2011/breast-cancer-patients-worry-excessively.html Thu, 21 Jul 2011 04:33:54 GMT A newly released study has observed that certain types of women with early stage breast cancer are vulnerable to excessive worrying about cancer recurrence. Published early online in CANCER, a peer-evaluated journal of the American Cancer Society, the study also indicates that worrying about cancer recurrence can compromise patients' medical care and quality of life........ ]]> http://www.breast-cancer-blog.com/blogs/permalinks/2-2011/reducing-screening-mammography-errors.html http://www.breast-cancer-blog.com/blogs/permalinks/2-2011/reducing-screening-mammography-errors.html Thu, 21 Jul 2011 04:33:54 GMT Radiologists who interpret a high volume of mammograms may not detect more cancers but are better at determining which suspicious lesions are not cancerous, as per a newly released study published online and in the April print edition of Radiology "Contrary to our expectations, we observed no clear association between volume and sensitivity," said the study's main author, Diana S.M. Buist, Ph.D., M.P.H., senior investigator at the Group Health Research Institute in Seattle. "We did, however, find that radiologists with higher interpretive volume had significantly lower false-positive rates and recalled fewer women per cancer detected."....... ]]> http://www.breast-cancer-blog.com/blogs/permalinks/1-2011/protein-related-to-aging-holds-breast-cancer-clues.html http://www.breast-cancer-blog.com/blogs/permalinks/1-2011/protein-related-to-aging-holds-breast-cancer-clues.html Thu, 21 Jul 2011 04:33:54 GMT he most common type of breast cancer in older women � estrogen and progesterone receptor (ER/PR) positive breast cancer has been associated with a protein that fends off aging-related cellular damage. A newly released study led by Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center researcher David Gius, M.D., Ph.D., now shows how a deficiency in this aging-associated protein may set the stage for these tumors to develop........ ]]> http://www.breast-cancer-blog.com/blogs/permalinks/1-2011/combining-targeted-agents-to-treat-breast-cancer.html http://www.breast-cancer-blog.com/blogs/permalinks/1-2011/combining-targeted-agents-to-treat-breast-cancer.html Thu, 21 Jul 2011 04:33:54 GMT A newly released study by Ohio State University cancer scientists provides a rational for treating breast cancer by combining two kinds of targeted agents, one that inhibits an overactive, cancer-causing pathway in cancer cells and one that reverses changes that silence genes that normally prevent cancer. Both types of agents are currently available and being reviewed individually in clinical trials, the scientists note........ ]]> http://www.breast-cancer-blog.com/blogs/permalinks/12-2010/breast-cancer-patients-at-risk.html http://www.breast-cancer-blog.com/blogs/permalinks/12-2010/breast-cancer-patients-at-risk.html Thu, 21 Jul 2011 04:33:54 GMT gene target for drug resistance, a triple-drug cocktail for triple negative breast cancer, and patients' risk for carpal tunnel syndrome are among study highlights scheduled to be presented by Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center researchers during the 33rd Annual CTRC-AACR San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium, held Dec. 8-12. The information is embargoed for the time of presentation at the symposium........ ]]> http://www.breast-cancer-blog.com/blogs/permalinks/12-2010/novel-imaging-technique-lymphedema.html http://www.breast-cancer-blog.com/blogs/permalinks/12-2010/novel-imaging-technique-lymphedema.html Thu, 21 Jul 2011 04:33:54 GMT ith guidance from a specialized scan, radiation oncologists at Mayo Clinic (http://www.mayoclinic.org/) were able to reduce by 55 percent the number of lymph nodes critical for removing fluid from the arm that received damaging radiation doses. The scientists report that integrating single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) with the computerized tomography (CT) scans utilized for breast cancer radiotherapy planning may offer patients substantial protection against lymphedema, an incurable, chronic swelling of tissue that results from damage to lymph nodes sustained during breast cancer radiation. The SPECT-Computerized axial tomography scan pinpoints the precise locations of the lymph nodes that are critical for removing fluid from the arm, allowing physicians to block them, as much as possible, from X-ray beams delivered to the chest........ ]]> http://www.breast-cancer-blog.com/blogs/permalinks/11-2010/breast-cancer-patients-prefer-silicone.html http://www.breast-cancer-blog.com/blogs/permalinks/11-2010/breast-cancer-patients-prefer-silicone.html Thu, 21 Jul 2011 04:33:54 GMT A newly released study has observed that women who receive silicone implants after a double mastectomy are more satisfied with their breasts than women who receive saline implants. Published early online in CANCER, a peer-evaluated journal of the American Cancer Society, the findings may help physicians and breast cancer survivors as they together make decisions correlation to postmastectomy reconstructive surgery........ ]]> http://www.breast-cancer-blog.com/blogs/permalinks/10-2010/breast-healthy-lifestyle-worthwhile.html http://www.breast-cancer-blog.com/blogs/permalinks/10-2010/breast-healthy-lifestyle-worthwhile.html Thu, 21 Jul 2011 04:33:54 GMT Having a family history of breast cancer can lead some people to wonder if their risk is out of their control. However, a study of more than 85,000 postmenopausal women found that regular physical activity, maintaining a healthy weight, and drinking less alcohol lowers breast cancer risk for women with, and without a family history of the disease........ ]]> http://www.breast-cancer-blog.com/blogs/permalinks/10-2010/unusual-drug-resistant-breast-cancer.html http://www.breast-cancer-blog.com/blogs/permalinks/10-2010/unusual-drug-resistant-breast-cancer.html Thu, 21 Jul 2011 04:33:54 GMT Scientists at the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine have found how gene expression that may contribute to drug resistance is ramped up in unusual types of breast tumors. Their findings may offer new treatment targets. The study is reported in the Oct. 8 issue of the Journal of Biological Chemistry, where it is designated a paper of the week........ ]]> http://www.breast-cancer-blog.com/blogs/permalinks/9-2010/improved-survival-at-every-stage-of-breast-cancer.html http://www.breast-cancer-blog.com/blogs/permalinks/9-2010/improved-survival-at-every-stage-of-breast-cancer.html Thu, 21 Jul 2011 04:33:54 GMT Advances in screening for disease detection, better surgical techniques available to more women, and an increased number of therapies that reduce the risk of relapse in patients with both locally advanced and early stage disease, have collectively contributed to dramatic improvements in breast cancer's survival rates, as per a review of 60 years of patient records at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center........ ]]> http://www.breast-cancer-blog.com/blogs/permalinks/8-2010/risky-nuclear-breast-imaging-technologies.html http://www.breast-cancer-blog.com/blogs/permalinks/8-2010/risky-nuclear-breast-imaging-technologies.html Thu, 21 Jul 2011 04:33:54 GMT Some nuclear-based breast imaging exams may increase a woman's risk of developing radiation-induced cancer, as per a special report appearing online and in the recent issue of Radiology However, the radiation dose and risk from mammography are very low. "A single breast-specific gamma imaging (BSGI) or positron emission mammography (PEM) examination carries a lifetime risk of inducing fatal cancer greater than or comparable to a lifetime of annual screening mammography starting at age 40," said the study's author, R. Edward Hendrick, Ph.D., clinical professor of radiology at the University of Colorado-Denver, School of Medicine in Aurora, Co........ ]]> http://www.breast-cancer-blog.com/blogs/permalinks/7-2010/targeted-breast-radiation-to-control-cancer.html http://www.breast-cancer-blog.com/blogs/permalinks/7-2010/targeted-breast-radiation-to-control-cancer.html Thu, 21 Jul 2011 04:33:54 GMT A newly released study of patients with breast cancer at the Moores UCSD Cancer Center and the Arizona Oncology Services shows that after almost two years, the radiation given with the Strut-Adjusted Volume Implant (SAVI) controls the rate of cancer and may reduce the complications seen with alternate types of brachytherapy. This study also demonstrates the accuracy and flexibility of the device to maximize the dose to the target tissue and minimize the exposure of healthy surrounding tissue and organs........ ]]> http://www.breast-cancer-blog.com/blogs/permalinks/3-2010/radiation-after-mastectomy.html http://www.breast-cancer-blog.com/blogs/permalinks/3-2010/radiation-after-mastectomy.html Thu, 21 Jul 2011 04:33:54 GMT Patients with breast cancer with early stage disease that has spread to only one lymph node may not benefit from radiation after mastectomy, because of the low present-day risk of recurrence following modern surgery and systemic treatment, a finding that could one day change the course of therapy for thousands of women diagnosed each year, as per scientists at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer........ ]]>