Exposure to sunlight may reduce the risk of advanced breast cancerin women with light skin pigmentation, according to the results ofa population-based study appearing in the American Journal ofEpidemiology.
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Women who develop breast cancer are no more likely to haveaggressive or advanced tumors if they are cigarette smokers than ifthey do not smoke, researchers said on Sunday.
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But there are lots of other reasons to avoid the habit, experts say
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Research highlights need to individualize treatment
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There’s no proof cancer will spread to the healthy second breast,researchers say
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A decision aid that discusses both the pros and cons of continuingmammographic screening may help older women make the best informedchoice, according to a report in the Archives of Internal Medicine.
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From 1998 through 2003, the rate of double mastectomies among womenin the United States who had cancer diagnosed in only one breastmore than doubled, according to a report in the Journal of ClinicalOncology.
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After treatment for breast cancer, women are commonly classified aseither being in remission or not, depending on whether cancer isstill present. New research suggests, however, that in predictingwhether the cancer will spread to distant body sites, it isimportant to determine not simply if there is cancer, but how much.
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The findings of a series of animal studies indicate that calciumdeficiency, which accelerates the rate that calcium is absorbedback into the bone, promotes breast cancer tumor growth in bone,Australian researchers report.
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When pp32 is gone, a tumor-spurring gene goes to work, researcherssay
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