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May 15th 2008Drug InformationBreast Cancer
Research from the US suggests that exercising or being physically active is linked to a reduced risk of invasive premenopausal breast cancer, and the reduction is even higher when girls and women start regular physical activity in early adolescence and continue into adulthood.
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May 15th 2008Drug InformationBreast Cancer
Mothers, here’s another reason to encourage your daughters to be physically active: Girls and young women who exercise regularly between the ages of 12 and 35 have a substantially lower risk of breast cancer before menopause compared to those who are less active, new research shows.
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May 15th 2008Drug InformationBreast Cancer
Cancer researchers and physicians have warned of the link between unprotected sun exposure and the development of skin cancer for decades, but experts from Yale Cancer Center warn that recent publicity about a new study linking a decreased risk of breast cancer to increased levels of vitamin D may be confusing. A recent study, published in the Breast Journal, evaluated the incidence of breast cancer in 107 countries.
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May 15th 2008Drug InformationBreast Cancer
In women at increased risk for breast cancer, adding a screening ultrasound examination to routine mammography revealed 28 percent more cancers than mammography alone. However, the additional ultrasound exam substantially increased the rates of false positive findings and unnecessary biopsies, according to an American College of Radiology Imaging Network (ACRIN) study published in the May 14, 2008 issue of the Journal of American Medical Association.
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May 15th 2008Drug InformationBreast Cancer
GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), in collaboration with the Breast International Group (BIG), a leading academic breast cancer research network, and one of its member groups, the Spanish Breast Cancer Cooperative Group (SOLTI), announced the start of a global Phase III study that will examine the role of TYKERB(R) in the treatment of early breast cancer.
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May 15th 2008Drug InformationBreast Cancer
Women are living longer after breast cancer but simply surviving is not enough, Pamela Goldberg, Chief Executive, Breast Cancer Campaign, says.Speaking at the second Breast Cancer Campaign Scientific Conference in London, Pamela Goldberg outlined how earlier diagnosis, new treatments, and increased awareness of symptoms has resulted in breast cancer moving towards becoming a chronic but controllable condition.
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May 15th 2008Drug InformationBreast Cancer
A stellate-ganglion block is a numbing of the star-shaped collection ofnerves in the neck that is thought to affect both temperature and sleepcontrol. A new study published in The Lancet Oncologyreports that breast cancer survivors who are treated with astellate-ganglion block can achieve long-term relief from hot flushesand sleep problems.
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May 15th 2008Drug InformationBreast Cancer
A tiny modification called methylation on estrogen receptors prolongs the life of these growth-driving molecules in breast cancer cells, according to research by scientists at Emory University’s Winship Cancer Institute.The results are published in the May 9, 2008 issue of the journal Molecular Cell.Most breast cancers contain estrogen receptors, which enable them to grow in the presence of the hormone estrogen.
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May 15th 2008Drug InformationBreast Cancer
Adding a screening ultrasound examination to routine mammography reveals more breast cancers than mammography alone, according to results of a major new clinical trial. The trial, however, also found that adding an ultrasound exam also increases the rate of false positive findings and unnecessary biopsies.
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May 15th 2008Drug InformationBreast Cancer
Scientists have made a significant discovery that clarifies a previously poorly understood key event in the progression of breast cancer. The research, published by Cell Press in the May issue of the journal Cancer Cell, highlights the importance of the microenvironment in regulating breast tumor progression and suggests that it may be highly beneficial to consider therapies that do not focus solely on the tumor cells but are also targeted to the surrounding tissues.
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