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With all the latest research and advancements in field of cancer, the death rates have been declining considerably. But with a new study, scientists have shocked everybody by revealing the jump in rate of thyroid cancer among women. The study found that thyroid cancer incidence rates among women increased 2.2 percent per year from 1981-1993, [...]
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Breast density is nearly as important as age for determining a woman’s risk of developing breast cancer as per two new studies William E. Barlow, lead author of one of the studies and a senior investigator at Group Health Cooperative in Seattle, says†If we wanted to identify women who were really at high risk [...]
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As per an international study, doctors can determine the risk of breast cancer recurrence or death with the help of a test that checks the expression of 70 genes related with breast cancer. The studies included as many as 307 patients and were followed for 13.6 years. The patients were categorized in to high- and [...]
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Around 40 New Zealand breast cancer patients are hoped to be taking part in an international drug trial which aims to improve medication used to prevent recurrence of the disease. The trial will compare two new aromatatse inhibitors – treatments which effectively starve breast cancer cells of oestrogen, preventing the disease from recurring in post-treatment [...]
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A group of more than 300 breast cancer survivors gathered on the field of the MacAfee Coliseum Saturday to form a human “ribbon” of hope. They filed into the sunlight wearing pink T-shirts and A’s caps, sporting wide grins to participate in the Eighth Annual Breast Cancer Awareness Day. The day-long celebration was presented by [...]
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Women whose breast cancer is detected by mammography have a lower risk of the cancer recurring after treatment compared to those who discover a tumor by other means, a Finnish study said. Women with cancerous tumors detected outside of the mammography screening process — usually a manual breast exam — had a 90 percent higher [...]
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ATLANTA (AP) — Women going through treatment for breast cancer felt better when they tried yoga, according to one of the first scientific studies of its kind. “Our belief is something as simple and brief as a short (yoga) program would be very useful” at combating side effects from cancer treatment, said Lorenzo Cohen, a [...]
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Breast cancer sufferers living in remote areas of the Northern Territory will be given better support thanks to a $10,000 grant from the National Breast Cancer Centre. Tiwi Islands, Maningrida, Port Keats and Peppimenarti women will be trained as peer support officers, who will assist cancer patients. The project was one of four across Australia [...]
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SEATTLE — The Paul G. Allen Family Foundation has given a $5 million grant to the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center for its work on early detection of breast and prostate cancer. The money will go toward a “proof-of-principle” project testing the theory that certain blood proteins can signal the early development of cancer with [...]
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A chemical found in hard plastics — such as CD cases, baby bottles, food-storage containers, and even electronics parts — has been loosely linked to incidences of breast cancer. Popular opinion cautions that if we were not worried about this news yesterday, we should not be worried about it today — because studies are preliminary [...]
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Katie Couric spent her summer traveling the country visiting with future CBS news fans and raising money for cancer awareness. Couric, whose husband Jay Monahan died of colon cancer in 1998 at the age of 42, has become a prominent spokesperson for colon cancer awareness. She underwent a colonoscopy on-air in March 2000 and inspired [...]
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PHARMAC has announced it is to fund a taxane drug for use in early stage breast cancer. The decision to fund Paclitaxel from tomorrow is expected to see up to 550 women with early breast cancer treated with the medicine. Taxanes are a class of chemotherapeutic drug funded for a number of cancers including ovarian, [...]
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