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    'Hidden' Cancer Cells Not A Factor In Early-Stage Breast Cancer Survival Rates

    A new study shows that removing lymph nodes due to the presence of occult, or microscopic, cancer cells found in the sentinel lymph node the one closest to the tumor -- has no impact on survival outcomes of women with early-stage breast cancer. The principal investigator of the study is Armando...
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    Blacks Less Likely To Survive Advanced Breast Cancer Regardless Of Radiation Therapy

    UC Davis researchers have found that blacks are more likely than patients from other racial and ethnic groups to die from advanced breast cancer and that the disparity cannot be explained by the fact that blacks are less likely to receive radiation therapy, a standard treatment for advanced...
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    Sigma® Life Science Launches Genetically Modified Human Cell Lines For Breast Cancer

    Sigma Life Science, the innovative biological products and services research business of Sigma-Aldrich® (Nasdaq: SIAL), announced the expansion of its CompoZr® Oncology Disease Model portfolio with the release of the first in its collection of breast cancer-specific knockout and knockin cell...
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    In HER2-Postive Breast And Brain Cancer Patients Trastuzumab And Chemotherapy Improve

    The use of trastuzumab, chemotherapy and surgery among women with HER2-positive metastatic breast cancer significantly improved survival from the time central nervous system metastases were diagnosed. Based on these study results, lead researcher Adam Brufsky, M.D., Ph.D., said, "We clearly now...
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    Breast Help? lol.....?

    This is a bit embarrassing lol... Well, to get straight to the point, I am wanting to get my breast's perkier 'naturally' I have a 36 DD bra size and i dont know really what to do about sagging lol (being 4'10" and with a size 36 DD sucks sometimes... lol) I will post more info. if need be~
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    The Benefits Of Breast Screening Shown By Long-Term Study

    Results from the longest running breast screening trial show that screening with mammography reduces the number of deaths from breast cancer. The study*, by researchers at Queen Mary, University of London, shows that the number of deaths that are prevented goes up year after year. The results...
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    Breast Cancer Patients And Families Stand Up To FDA

    Breast cancer patients and their families will rally together on Tuesday, June 28, at 7:00 am outside of the Federal Drug Administration (FDA). At issue will be the FDA's final hearing to remove the anti-cancer drug Avastin from the approved medication list for treatment of late stage breast...
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    Scientists Investigate Whether A Blood Test Can Help To Detect Breast Cancer

    A study spearheaded by the University of Leicester aims to find out whether a blood test can detect cancer, earlier than current methods, in women with a strong family history of breast cancer. Leicestershire cancer research charity Hope Against Cancer is supporting the study with a £90,000...
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    Study Supports Immediate Breast Reconstruction After Mastectomy

    For women undergoing mastectomy for breast cancer, immediate breast reconstruction has a low risk of complications-including serious complications related to radiation therapy-and does not cause undue delays in cancer treatment, reports a study in the July issue of Plastic and Reconstructive...
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    FDA Approves New Test To Help Determine If Breast Cancer Patients Are Candidates For

    The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today approved a new genetic test that will help health care professionals determine if women with breast cancer are HER2-positive and, therefore, candidates for Herceptin (trastuzumab), a commonly used breast cancer treatment. The test, called Inform Dual...
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    Adding Radiation Therapy Benefits Breast Cancer Surgery Patients

    Additional radiation treatment improves disease free survival lessening the chance of cancer recurring in women with early breast cancer who have had breast conserving surgery (lumpectomy), interim results of a new study found. The results will be presented Monday, June 6 at the annual meeting...
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    Increased Rate Of Mortality In Obese Breast Cancer Survivors

    Women with a healthy body weight before and after diagnosis of breast cancer are more likely to survive the disease long term, a new study finds. The results were presented Saturday at The Endocrine Society's 93rd Annual Meeting in Boston. The study, conducted in nearly 4,000 breast cancer...
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    FDA: Breast Thermography Not A Substitute For Mammography

    The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today warned women not to substitute breast thermography for mammography to screen for breast cancer. Unlike mammography, in which an X-ray of the breast is taken, thermography produces an infrared image that shows the patterns of heat and blood flow on or...
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    The World Leader In Molecular Breast Imaging To Premiere Largest Detector In The Indu

    Dilon Diagnostics will introduce the latest advancement in molecular breast imaging (MBI) this week at the Society of Nuclear Medicine (SNM) Meeting in San Antonio, Texas, with the premiere of its FDA-cleared Dilon 6800® Acella Gamma Camera system. To complement the already widely successful...
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    National Clinical Trial To Test Novel Approach To Treat Triple-Negative Breast Cancer

    A multicenter clinical trial led by a researcher at the University of Maryland Marlene and Stewart Greenebaum Cancer Center will evaluate a new approach to treat triple-negative breast cancer, an often-aggressive type of cancer that is more common among African-Americans and young women. The...
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    New Breast Cancer Treatment Launched In UK

    Halaven(TM) Black Triangle Drug (eribulin), a novel treatment for patients with locally advanced or metastatic breast cancer who have progressed after at least two chemotherapeutic regimens for advanced disease is launched today in the United Kingdom. Prior therapy should have included two...
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    Marker Identifies Breast Cancer Patients Likely To Respond To Tamoxifen

    Cancer researchers at the Kimmel Cancer Center at Jefferson and an international team of collaborators have discovered a biomarker in breast cancer that may help identify which women will respond to anti-estrogen therapy. The research appears in the May 16 online issue of the Journal of...
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    Can you cook tinned tomatoes in the oven with Chicken breast...?

    I was thinking of putting chicken breast with tinned tomatoes and putting them in the oven together. I was just curious because on the tin of tomatoes it has options for cooking them either by microwave or on the hob in a pan, so can I still cook them in the oven...? If I put garlic in with...
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    is it possible to test breast milk for nutrition?

    I am 2 months pregnant and I want to breast feed my baby when he/she gets here, but my problem is that my mother, nor my grandmother was able to breast feed! Both my mother and my grandmothers breast milk was lacking in nutrition and they almost starved their babies to death trying to breast...
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    Does putting the nicotine patch on your breast increase your chances for breast

    cancer? I recently started using the patch to quit smoking. I usually put the patch on my chest due to the fact that it seems to start to come off when I put it other places. My friend told me today that putting it on your chest can give you breast cancer, and i'm just curious as to whether...
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