Archive for the ‘Breast Cancer’ Category
Monday, October 20th, 2008
The Baltimore Sun recently published a six-part series that examines the lives of four women living with terminal breast cancer who enrolled in an experimental vaccine trial run by Leisha Emens, an oncologist at Johns Hopkins Hospital. Headlines appear below.
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Monday, October 20th, 2008
Although genetic testing can provide some women with information about their risk for breast cancer, women who receive inconclusive results from genetic testing might be left with persistent anxiety, according to a study published recently in the journal Genetics in Medicine, Reuters reports. Mutations in the genes BRCA1 and BRCA2 cause about 5% to 10% of breast cancer cases.
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Sunday, October 19th, 2008
Abraxis BioScience, Inc.
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Saturday, October 18th, 2008
Benefact has launched the "Will for a Cure" campaign for Breast Cancer Awareness month to raise money for breast cancer research. This is the first fundraising event of its kind. The campaign asks everyone who wants to help breast cancer research and who has not completed their will to go to http://www.willforacure.
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Friday, October 17th, 2008
As millions of Americans participate in educational initiatives as part of National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, they should keep in mind an important yet under-recognized consequence of breast cancer therapy: oral mucositis, one of the most common and debilitating side effects of cancer treatment. Oral mucositis (OM) is a painful inflammation/ulceration of the mucous membranes in the mouth.
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Friday, October 17th, 2008
Part of black women's "increased vulnerability to breast cancer is a result of differential access to health care and health services," Julianne Malveaux, president of Bennett College for Women, writes in a Seattle Medium opinion piece.
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Thursday, October 16th, 2008
A study in the October 15 issue of the Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine shows that respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSA) is a significant predictor of insomnia in women with breast cancer and confirmed that longer nocturnal wake episodes were associated with a flatter diurnal cortisol slope.
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Thursday, October 16th, 2008
Geron Corporation (Nasdaq:GERN) today announced the publication of preclinical data demonstrating that its telomerase inhibitor drug, GRN163L, significantly boosts the effects of trastuzumab (Herceptin™) against HER2-positive breast cancer cells and restores sensitivity to trastuzumab in trastuzumab resistant tumor cells.
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Thursday, October 16th, 2008
The European Breast Cancer Coalition's Media Event to announce the first Breast Health Day on 15 October 2008 will feature EU Commissioner for Health Androulla Vassiliou, International Agency for Research on Cancer Director Prof. Peter Boyle, renowned breast surgeon Prof. Umberto Veronesi and other key European figures.
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Thursday, October 16th, 2008
Every day, women face a barrage of headlines about breast cancer. What should they do with all of that information? George Sledge, M.D., an internationally recognized breast cancer expert, pointed out that, despite all of the near-constant news and information about breast cancer, it is not the disease that impacts most women.
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