http://medicineworld.org/cancer/breast/breast-cancer-blog.html Breast cancer blog from medicineworld.org adds a personal touch to the stories related to breast cancer. This breast cancer blog brings you stories of hope, stories of survivors and latest news and research related to breast cancer. Tue, 17 Nov 2009 14:53:28 GMT en-us http://medicineworld.org/images/breast-cancer-blog.jpg http://medicineworld.org/cancer/blog/permalinks/Dec-2005/cure-cancer-with-your-personal-computer.html 121 90 http://medicineworld.org/stories/lead/11-2009/a-powerful-combination-punch-against-breast-cancer.html http://medicineworld.org/stories/lead/11-2009/a-powerful-combination-punch-against-breast-cancer.html Tue, 17 Nov 2009 14:53:28 GMT A powerful new breast cancer therapy could result from packaging one of the newer drugs that inhibits cancer's hallmark wild growth with another that blocks a primordial survival technique in which the cancer cell eats part of itself, scientists say. While they are powerful killers of some breast cancer cells, new drugs called histone deacetylase inhibitors, or HDAC inhibitors, also increase self-digestion, or autophagy, in surviving, mega-stressed cells, Medical College of Georgia Cancer Center scientists reported during the Molecular Targets and Cancer Therapeutics International Conference this week in Boston. The conference is sponsored by the American Association for Cancer Research, the National Cancer Institute and the European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer........ ]]> http://medicineworld.org/stories/lead/11-2009/hormone-replacement-therapy-and-breast-cancer.html http://medicineworld.org/stories/lead/11-2009/hormone-replacement-therapy-and-breast-cancer.html Tue, 17 Nov 2009 14:53:28 GMT The use of postmenopausal hormone treatment has decreased over time in the United States, which scientists suggest may play a key role in the declining rate of atypical ductal hyperplasia, a known risk factor for breast cancer. "Postmenopausal hormone therapy is linked to increased rates of non-malignant breast biopsies, and early and late stages of cancer. Atypical ductal hyperplasia is linked to the use of postmenopausal hormone therapy and its rates have decreased with the decline in use of this therapy," said researcher Tehillah Menes, M.D., who was the chief of breast service in the Department of Surgery at Elmhurst Hospital Center, New York, when this study was conducted........ ]]> http://medicineworld.org/stories/lead/11-2009/women-with-denser-breasts.html http://medicineworld.org/stories/lead/11-2009/women-with-denser-breasts.html Tue, 17 Nov 2009 14:53:28 GMT A newly released study finds that women treated for breast cancer are at higher risk of cancer recurrence if they have dense breasts. Reported in the December 15, 2009 issue of Cancer, a peer-evaluated journal of the American Cancer Society, the study's results indicate that patients with breast cancer with dense breasts appears to benefit from additional therapies following surgery, such as radiation........ ]]> http://medicineworld.org/stories/lead/11-2009/weight-training-for-breast-cancer-survivors.html http://medicineworld.org/stories/lead/11-2009/weight-training-for-breast-cancer-survivors.html Tue, 17 Nov 2009 14:53:28 GMT In addition to building muscle, weightlifting is also a prescription for self-esteem among breast cancer survivors, as per new University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine research. Breast cancer survivors who lift weights regularly feel better about bodies and their appearance and are more satisfied with their intimate relationships compared with survivors who do not lift weights, as per a newly released study reported in the journal Breast Cancer Research and Treatment........ ]]> http://medicineworld.org/stories/lead/11-2009/early-stage-her2-positive-breast-cancer.html http://medicineworld.org/stories/lead/11-2009/early-stage-her2-positive-breast-cancer.html Tue, 17 Nov 2009 14:53:28 GMT Early-stage patients with breast cancer with HER2 positive tumors one centimeter or smaller are at significant risk of recurrence of their disease, in comparison to those with early-stage disease who do not express the aggressive protein, as per a research studyled by scientists at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center........ ]]> http://medicineworld.org/stories/lead/11-2009/space-industry-technology-to-treat-breast-cancer.html http://medicineworld.org/stories/lead/11-2009/space-industry-technology-to-treat-breast-cancer.html Tue, 17 Nov 2009 14:53:28 GMT Scientists at Rush University Medical Center and Argonne National Laboratory are collaborating on a study to determine if an imaging technique used by NASA to inspect the space shuttle can be used to predict tissue damage often experienced by patients with breast cancer undergoing radiation treatment. The study is examining the utility of three-dimensional thermal tomography in radiation oncology........ ]]> http://medicineworld.org/stories/lead/10-2009/screening-for-breast-cancer-and-prostate-cancer.html http://medicineworld.org/stories/lead/10-2009/screening-for-breast-cancer-and-prostate-cancer.html Tue, 17 Nov 2009 14:53:28 GMT Twenty years of screening for breast and prostate cancer - the most diagnosed cancer for women and men - have not brought the anticipated decline in deaths from these diseases, argue experts from the University of California, San Francisco and the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio in an opinion piece reported in the "Journal of the American Medical Association"........ ]]> http://medicineworld.org/stories/lead/10-2009/transcendental-meditation-reduces-stress.html http://medicineworld.org/stories/lead/10-2009/transcendental-meditation-reduces-stress.html Tue, 17 Nov 2009 14:53:28 GMT Women with breast cancer reduced stress and improved their mental health and emotional well being through the Transcendental Meditation technique, as per a newly released study reported in the current issue of the peer-evaluated Integrative Cancer Therapies (Vol. 8, No. 3: September 2009). "A Randomized Controlled Trial of the Effects of Transcendental Meditation on Quality of Life in Older Breast Cancer Patients" was a collaboration between the Center for Healthy Aging at Saint Joseph Hospital; the Institute for Health Services, Research and Policy Studies at Northwestern University; the Department of Psychology at Indiana State University; and the Institute for Natural Medicine and Prevention at Maharishi University of Management........ ]]> http://medicineworld.org/stories/lead/10-2009/tenderness-in-the-breast-during-hrt.html http://medicineworld.org/stories/lead/10-2009/tenderness-in-the-breast-during-hrt.html Tue, 17 Nov 2009 14:53:28 GMT Women who developed new-onset breast tenderness after starting estrogen plus progestin hormone replacement treatment were at significantly higher risk for developing breast cancer than women on the combination treatment who didn't experience such tenderness, as per a new UCLA study. The research, reported in the Oct. 12 issue of the Archives of Internal Medicine, is based on data from more than 16,000 participants in the Women's Health Initiative estrogen-plus- progestin clinical trial. This trial was abruptly halted in July 2002 when scientists observed that healthy menopausal women on the combination treatment had an elevated risk for invasive breast cancer........ ]]> http://medicineworld.org/stories/lead/10-2009/diffuse-optical-tomography-for-breast-cancer-screening.html http://medicineworld.org/stories/lead/10-2009/diffuse-optical-tomography-for-breast-cancer-screening.html Tue, 17 Nov 2009 14:53:28 GMT Clemson University scientists in collaboration with scientists at the University of Bremen, Gera number of, are working to make the physical pain and discomfort of mammograms a thing of the past, while allowing for diagnostic imaging eventually to be done in a home setting. The group is fine-tuning Diffuse Optical Tomography (DOT) to create high-resolution images from a scattering of infrared and visible light for the early detection of breast cancer. While the method is less expensive, safer and more comfortable than X-rays used in mammograms, the problem has been generating a strong enough resolution to detect smaller breast cancers........ ]]> http://medicineworld.org/stories/lead/9-2009/patients-electing-to-remove-other-breast.html http://medicineworld.org/stories/lead/9-2009/patients-electing-to-remove-other-breast.html Tue, 17 Nov 2009 14:53:28 GMT A newly released study of New York State data finds that the number of women opting for surgery to remove the healthy breast after a cancer diagnosis in one breast is rising, despite a lack of evidence that the surgery can improve survival. The study also finds that despite extensive press coverage of women who choose to have both breasts removed because of a strong family history of cancer, the rate of this surgery is relatively low and has changed little in the last decade. The study appears in Cancer, a peer-evaluated journal of the American Cancer Society........ ]]> http://medicineworld.org/stories/lead/9-2009/sorafenib-for-breast-cancer.html http://medicineworld.org/stories/lead/9-2009/sorafenib-for-breast-cancer.html Tue, 17 Nov 2009 14:53:28 GMT One of the first of a series of trials to investigate the use of sorafenib a targeted anti-cancer drug for the therapy of advanced breast cancer has observed that if it is combined with the chemotherapy drug, capecitabine, it makes a significant difference to the time women live without their disease worsening........ ]]> http://medicineworld.org/stories/lead/9-2009/tamoxifen-can-also-cause-serious-side-effects.html http://medicineworld.org/stories/lead/9-2009/tamoxifen-can-also-cause-serious-side-effects.html Tue, 17 Nov 2009 14:53:28 GMT Three drugs that reduce a woman's chance of getting breast cancer also have been shown to cause adverse effects, as per a new report from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The report is based on a study led by Heidi D. Nelson, M.D., M.P.H., research professor in the Oregon Evidence-Based Practice Center at Oregon Health and Science University and medical director of the Women and Children's Program and Research Center at Providence Health and Services. It is published online in the Sept. 15 issue of theAnnals of Internal Medicine........ ]]> http://medicineworld.org/stories/lead/9-2009/breast-cancer-survivors.html http://medicineworld.org/stories/lead/9-2009/breast-cancer-survivors.html Tue, 17 Nov 2009 14:53:28 GMT A key statistic that consumer groups and the media often use when compiling hospital report cards and national rankings can be misleading, scientists report in a newly released study. The statistic is called the mortality index. A number above 1.0 indicates a hospital had more deaths than expected within a given specialty. Lower than 1.0 means there were fewer than the expected number of deaths........ ]]> http://medicineworld.org/stories/lead/8-2009/breast-cancer-intervention-reduces-depression.html http://medicineworld.org/stories/lead/8-2009/breast-cancer-intervention-reduces-depression.html Tue, 17 Nov 2009 14:53:28 GMT A psychological intervention for newly diagnosed patients with breast cancer with symptoms of depression not only relieves patients' depression but also lowers indicators of inflammation in the blood. Those are the findings of a newly released study by scientists at the Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center - James Cancer Hospital and Solove Research Institute (OSUCCC-James) and the Ohio State University Department of Psychology involving patients with stage II or III breast cancer........ ]]> http://medicineworld.org/stories/lead/8-2009/new-prognostic-marker-for-breast-cancer.html http://medicineworld.org/stories/lead/8-2009/new-prognostic-marker-for-breast-cancer.html Tue, 17 Nov 2009 14:53:28 GMT Elevated levels of GLI1 (glioma-associated oncogene homolog 1) protein in human breast cancer are linked to unfavorable prognosis and progressive stages of disease. Scientists writing in the open access journal BMC Cancer found increased expression of GLI1 in samples taken from more advanced and less survivable tumors........ ]]>