Breast Cancer news

New Drug Cocktail Extends Lives of Patients with Advanced Breast Cancer

Researchers using a new cocktail of cancer treatment drugs are reporting the best survival rate to date in…    

Roche breast cancer pill fails to help older women

Swiss drugmaker Roche Holding AG’s oral chemotherapy drug Xeloda, or capecitabine, proved inferior to standard chemotherapy in treating…    

Paclitaxel improves early breast cancer survival

For women with early-stage breast cancer, adding paclitaxel to standard chemotherapy can improve their chances of survival, Spanish…    

Saliva Test May help Detect Breast Cancer

Scientists are developing a test that dentists could use to screen patients for breast cancer. The test checks…    

Long-term hormone replacement therapy increases breast cancer risk

“Are you taking or did you take hormones? If yes, which hormone medication and for how long? When…    

New Antibody Offers Hope for Treating Ovarian, Breast Cancer

A discovery by an East Carolina University pathologist might be a breakthrough in an evolving class of drugs…    

Breast Cancer Tumors Grow Faster In Younger Women

A new approach to estimating tumour growth based on breast screening results from almost 400,000 women is published…    

New breast cancer genetics research from McGill University, Department of Human Genetics discussed

New research, ‘Haplotype analysis of TP53 polymorphisms, Arg72Pro and Ins16, in BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutation carriers of French…    

Breast Cancer Research Bills

Until 1985 almost all women who were diagnosed with breast cancer underwent a surgical procedure called a mastectomy.…    

Breast cancer MRI comes to P.C.: Imaging machine first of its kind in Florida

Breast cancer is the second-leading cause of cancer mortality in Florida. In Bay, Gulf and parts of Franklin…    

Breast cancer tumor growth estimated through mammography screening data

Introduction
Knowledge of tumor growth is important in the planning and evaluation of screening programs, clinical…    

US panel mulls minimum breast cancer hospital stay

A congressional panel on Wednesday said it has bipartisan support for a bill requiring health insurers to pay…    

Future in which Breast Cancer Will Be Cured or Controlled

A Dalhousie professor who has been researching cancer-fighting agents from natural sources has been named to the Atlantic…    

Bone Drug Could Help Prevent the Spread of Breast Cancer

Maintaining bone density could be a key to decreasing the spread of cancer in women with locally…    

Iressa Shows Promise For Treatment of Metastatic Breast Cancer When Combined With Hormonal Therapy

Gefitinib, the once-promising drug formerly approved as a second line treatment for lung cancer, also known as Iressa,…    

New scans prompt mastectomies for breast patients

Breast cancer patients who get newer scans called magnetic resonance imaging are more likely to opt for mastectomies,…    

Eisai says drug active in advanced breast cancer

Japan’s Eisai Co Ltd said on Friday that its experimental treatment for advanced breast cancer had shown tumour…    

Molecular ‘Clock’ Could Predict Risk for Developing Breast Cancer

A chemical reaction in genes that control breast cancer provides a molecular clock that could one day help…    

Ultrasound Plus Mammography May Improve Breast Cancer Detection

The addition of an ultrasound examination to mammography for women at high-risk of breast cancer resulted in a…    

Surviving breast cancer ‘is not enough,’ warns Breast Cancer Campaign

Women are living longer after breast cancer but simply surviving is not enough, Pamela Goldberg, Chief Executive, Breast…