Breast cancer is the abnormal growth and uncontrolled division of cells in the breast. Cancer cells invade and destroy surrounding normal tissue, and can spread throughout the body via blood or lymph fluid (clear fluid bathing body cells) to start a new cancer in another part of the body.
Breastfeeding reduces risk of breast cancer in women with a family history of the disease – Women with a family history of breast cancer were 59 percent less likely to develop breast cancer themselves if they breastfed their children, revealed by US researchers.
Women often opt to surgically remove their breasts, ovaries to reduce cancer risk – Many women at high risk for breast or ovarian cancer are choosing to undergo surgery as a precautionary measure to decrease their cancer risk, revealed by US researchers.
Stem cell ‘daughters’ lead to breast cancer — Breast cells are likely to be responsible for breast cancers. – Breast cells called luminal progenitor cells are likely to be responsible for breast cancers that develop in women carrying mutations in the gene BRCA1, revealed by researchers.
Mathematical modeling predicts response to Herceptin in breast cancer patients. – Cancer researchers are turning to mathematical models to help answer important clinical questions, and a new paper in Cancer Research, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research, illustrates how the technique may answer questions about Herceptin resistance.
Surgery remans an option for advanced lung cancer after standard chemotherapy and radiation. – Surgery after standard chemotherapy and radiation can be an option for lung cancer patients, revealed by researchers in new study published in the Lancet.
Cancer Center Studies Lead to New Trials for Malignant Melanoma Treatment — Breast cancer drug Abraxane promising for metastatic malignant melanoma treatment. – An approved breast-cancer drug nab-paclitaxel, trade named Abraxane, has been found promising in clinical trial for the treatment of metastatic malignant melanoma, revealed by researchers.
ASTRO issues consensus statement on using APBI to treat breast cancer – A new consensus statement outlining patient selection criteria and best practices for the use of accelerated partial breast irradiation (APBI) outside the context of a clinical trial has been published in the July 15 issue of the International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics.
Researchers find genetic key to breast cancer’s ability to survive and spread – New research led by investigators at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC) sheds light on a genetic function that gives breast cancer cells the ability to survive and spread to the bone years after treatment has been administered.
Study challenges routine use of MRI scans to evaluate breast cancer — Test is linked to delays in treatment, increase in mastectomy rates. – Women with newly diagnosed breast cancer who receive a breast MRI are more likely to receive a mastectomy after their diagnosis and may face delays in starting treatment, revealed by researchers.
Study finds cancer is the second most frequent cause of death in individuals with schizophrenia – Schizophrenia patients are four times as likely to die from all causes and are 50 percent more likely to die from cancer compared to people in the general population, revealed by researchers.
Many breast cancer patients take high doses of antioxidants despite possible consequences – antioxidant supplements may interfere breast cancer treatment. – A new study finds that many women with breast cancer take antioxidant supplements while undergoing cancer treatment, even though the consequences of doing so are unknown.
Middle-aged women experience more stress but have lower blood pressure – Both blood pressure and serum lipid levels have improved in Swedish middle-aged women during the past 30 years. Levels of perceived mental stress, however, have increased significantly. These are the of a thesis presented at the Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Sweden.
