Breast Cancer Information, News and Updates

As little as 3 years of using combined estrogen and progestinmenopausal hormone therapy substantially increases the risk ofdeveloping lobular breast carcinoma, the results of new researchindicate.

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Study finds wide variation among families with carriers

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A wood floor finish popular in the 1950s and 1960s may be asignificant source of the banned, disease-causing pollutants knownas PCBs, U.S. researchers reported on Wednesday.

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African American women are generally less likely than white womento pursue genetic testing for BRCA1 or BRCA2, the gene mutationsassociated with an increased risk of break cancer, researchersreport. However, African American women with a recent diagnosis ofbreast cancer are much more likely to do so, according to thearticle in the Journal of Clinical Oncology.

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A team of scientists at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center inNew York has identified several naturally occurring human microRNAsthat prevent breast cancer from spreading (metastasizing) to thelung and bone — the two main sites to which breast usuallyspreads, according to study findings released early by the sciencejournal Nature.

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Finding suggests the gene, when not mutated, helps repair damagedDNA

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Canadian women are being asked to bare their breasts online in abrazenly novel campaign meant to keep them cancer-free.

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Activating body’s immune system should fight tumors, researcherssay

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Scientists in the United States are developing a screening test forbreast cancer that checks a woman’s saliva for evidence of thedisease to help find tumors early, when they are most treatable.

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Removal of the ovaries (oophorectomy) plus tamoxifen, as adjuvant,or “add-on” therapy, significantly improves survival inpremenopausal women with operable breast cancer, a study indicates.

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