News tagged with 'Breast Cancer'

The biotechnology industry's stocks fell today over a judge's ruling that invalidated a patent over genes linked to breast cancer. Biotechnology advances depend on patenting genes or life forms to be used exclusively for scientific advances and profit.

Multiple CT scans deliver a cumulative dose of radiation and currently it is up to the patient to talk to their doctor to determine if the image is necessary. The FDA is addressing at least part of the concern.

Young women with a high-risk of breast cancer may want to pay attention to the latest findings released Monday suggesting even low doses of radiation from mammograms may increase their risk of breast cancer.

Dr. Susan Lark, who reports online on women's health issues, is encouraging women to seek out thermography to measure the heat generated by breast cancers, as a more accurate tool than traditional mammography.

In a sudden turnabout, a major policy setting organization is discouraing regular mammograms for women in their 40s, saying the anxiety from false positives and surgical procedures outweighs the benefits.

In 2007, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg declared October 13 Metastatic Breast Cancer Awareness Day. An estimated 155,000 women in the United States are currently living with metastatic breast cancer.

There is good new and bad news to report about breast cancer, but overall, the American Cancer Society in this 2009-2010 report says that the deaths rates have been steadily declining about 2 percent a year.

Metformin, the diabetes drug, may be useful to stop the reoccurence of cancer cells by starving them of sugar for growth.

Researchers have identified a compound that can destroy breast cancer stem cells, a type of master cell resistant to conventional treatment. This research introduces a completely new way of identifying cancer drugs.

Being treated for cancer generally means preparing your body for the fight of your life. So supplements, especially antioxidants such as vitamins C and E, beta carotene, or selenium are taken by many patients. This study warns patients they may provide a protective effect to cancer.

Over the next 20 years, the number of cancer cases is expected to spike 45 percent. Especially hard hit are the elderly and minority populations.  Lifestyle changes are known to cut your cancer risk.

The state appeals court in Houston has ruled Wyeth must face a personal injury lawsuit filed by a woman who claims Prempro, a hormone-replacement drug, caused her breast cancer.

Even low amounts of alcohol increases the risk of certain cancers in women. A new study published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute finds an estimated 13 percent of breast, liver, rectum and upper respiratory/gastrointestinal cancers may be linked to alcohol use.

A trial of the drug Livial, a synthetic alternative to hormone replacement therapy, was halted after researchers found it significantly raises the risk of breast cancer recurrence.

New research suggests that adding Zometa (zoledronic acid) to post-surgery hormone therapy, reduces the risk of breast cancer recurrence or death in premenopausal women by 36 percent compared to hormone therapy alone.