Archive for May, 2010
The Cancer Drugs Many Don’t Know About
Author: Yahoo! News Search Results for breastcancer05 29th, 2010
Have you ever heard of chemoprevention? Probably not. In fact, few people are taking advantage of drugs, such as tamoxifen, that have been proven to prevent a substantial number of common cancers. Which is a problem.
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read comments (0)Couple now advocates for early detection after cancer diagnoses
Author: Yahoo! News Search Results for breastcancer05 28th, 2010
Editor's note: The Dodge County Relay forLife is June 4-5. In preparation for the event, this week we areprofiling five cancer survivors.
Fremont Police dispatcher survives rare form of breast cancer
Author: Yahoo! News Search Results for breastcancer05 27th, 2010
Zakovec was told that she had a very rare type of breast cancer - one that affects only 2 percent of all breast cancer patients.
About Town
Author: Yahoo! News Search Results for breastcancer05 27th, 2010
Highlights from June 2010 issue of American Journal of Pathology
Author: Yahoo! News Search Results for breastcancer05 26th, 2010
Dr. Kanneboyina Nagaraju and colleagues at the Children's National Medical Center, Washington, DC demonstrate that affected muscle may directly contribute to inflammation in muscular dystrophy. Their report can be found in the June 2010 issue of The American Journal of Pathology.
The cancer preventers many don’t know about, or want
Author: Yahoo! News Search Results for breastcancer05 24th, 2010
Few people are taking advantage of pills that have been proven to prevent a substantial number of common cancers.If you didn't realize such pills exist, you are not unusual. Which is part of the problem.
Chill out during chemo and maybe keep your hair
Author: Yahoo! News Search Results for breastcancer05 23rd, 2010
Radiation Not Needed in Many Older Breast Cancer Patients
Author: Yahoo! News Search Results for breastcancer05 21st, 2010
No added benefit over surgery plus tamoxifen alone in those 70-plus with early stage disease, study finds.
ImmunoCellular Therapeutics to present clinical results of ICT-107 dendritic cell immunotherapy at 46th ASCO
Author: Yahoo! News Search Results for breastcancer05 21st, 2010
ImmunoCellular Therapeutics, Ltd. a biotechnology company focused on the development of novel immune-based cancer therapies, today announced that it will be presenting results from its clinical trial of ICT-107 at the 46th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) being held June 4-8 in Chicago.
Radiation Not Needed in Many Older Breast Cancer Patients
Author: Yahoo! News Search Results for breastcancer05 21st, 2010
FRIDAY, May 21 (HealthDay News) -- A new study provides more support for the idea of allowing women aged 70 and older with early stage breast cancer to avoid radiation treatment if they have undergone a lumpectomy and treatment with the drug tamoxifen.