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Nanotube Therapy Takes Aim at Breast Cancer Stem Cells

Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center researchers have again proven that injecting multiwalled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs) into tumors and…    

Risk of Death From Breast Cancer Higher Among Older Patients

Among postmenopausal women with hormone receptor-positive breast cancer, increasing age was associated with a higher risk of death…    

PET Techniques Provide More Accurate Diagnosis, Prognosis in Challenging Breast Cancer Cases

In two new studies featured in the February issue of The Journal of Nuclear Medicine, researchers are revealing…    

Our Promise to Black Women

When 27-year-old Shaneera made the decision to breastfeed her newly born daughter in August 2007, little did she…    

Breast cancer kills more black women

Black women are 50 percent more likely than any other racial or ethnic group to die from advanced…    

Surgical breast biopsy not overused, study suggests

Contrary to earlier findings, surgical breast biopsies may not be as overused as previously thought, according to a…    

Breast Cancer Surgery Rules Are Called Unclear

Nearly half of women who had lumpectomies for breast cancer had second operations they may not have needed…    

Women not following through with recommended breast screening MRI

A study of 64,659 women, recently published in the journal Academic Radiology, found that while 1,246 of these…    

Scientists developing breast cancer treatment test news

University of Manchester scientists are developing a test that will help identify patients who will benefit from a…    

In Breast Cancer, The Quality Of Life For Younger Patients More Adversely Affected Than For Older Women

Quality of life in younger patients treated for breast cancer is seriously compromised and these women suffer from…    

Genetic testing helped breast cancer survivor

When Maureen Gianni, a breast cancer survivor, learned that her younger sister had also been diagnosed with breast…    

Women with Certain Type of Ovarian Cancer and BRCA Gene Mutation Have Improved Survival at 5 Years

Among women with invasive epithelial ovarian cancer, patients having a germline (gene change in a reproductive cell that…    

Quality of life for younger breast cancer patients more adversely affected than older women

Quality of life in younger patients treated for breast cancer is seriously compromised and these women suffer from…    

Younger breast cancer patients have more adverse quality-of-life issues

Younger women with breast cancer experience a decrease in their health-related quality of life (QOL), associated with increased…    

Why cholesterol-lowering statins might treat cancer

Cholesterol-lowering statins seem to keep breast cancer at bay in some patients. Now researchers reporting in the January…    

Breast cancer spread triggered by a cleaver-wielding protein on cancer cell’s surface

Scientists from the University of Helsinki and from UCSF have exposed a cell pathway that breast tumor cells…    

Researchers identify possible receptor for key breast cancer regulator

A key protein potentially involved in regulating breast cancer progression has been identified by researchers at Clarkson University…    

A novel therapeutic target to slow breast cancer cell motility

Interferon-stimulated gene 15 (ISG15), a ubiquitin like protein, is highly elevated in a variety of cancers including breast…    

Early-Stage Breast Cancer Patients Lack Knowledge About Their Disease and May Not Receive the Treatment They Prefer

According to the results of a new study published in the January 2012 issue of the Journal of…    

Prospective surveillance model emerges as standard of care for breast cancer treatment

Early diagnosis and treatment of breast cancer-related lymphedema by a physical therapist can significantly reduce costs and the…