Title: New Guidelines Issued on Hormone Receptor Testing for Breast CancerSummary:TUESDAY, April 20 (HealthDay News) — The American Society of Clinical Oncology and the College of American Pathologists have issued new guidelines to improve the accuracy of the testing of estrogen and progesterone receptors in breast cancer patients.Published on : Tue Apr 20 13:03:37 2010 [...]
Title: New Guidelines Issued on Hormone Receptor Testing for Breast CancerSummary:TUESDAY, April 20 (HealthDay News) — The American Society of Clinical Oncology and the College of American Pathologists have issued new guidelines to improve the accuracy of the testing of estrogen and progesterone receptors in breast cancer patients.Published on : Tue Apr 20 13:03:37 2010 [...]
Title: Pills to prevent breast cancer bring trade-offsSummary:Older women at higher risk for breast cancer now have two good drug options for preventing the disease, but they will have to weigh the trade-offs, a major study shows. Breast cancer – Cancer – Health – Breast – Conditions and DiseasesPublished on : Mon Apr 19 16:13:12 [...]
Title: Tamoxifen prevents more breast cancer than EvistaSummary:The breast cancer drug tamoxifen prevented more cases of breast cancer after nearly 7 years than Eli Lilly and Co’s osteoporosis drug Evista, researchers reported on Monday.Published on : Mon Apr 19 14:16:30 2010 GMT Source:Continue reading here…Courtesy:Reuters via Yahoo! News
Title: Study: 2 good choices to prevent breast cancerSummary:Older women at higher risk for breast cancer now have two good drug options for preventing the disease, but they will have to weigh the trade-offs, a major study shows.Published on : Mon Apr 19 14:05:35 2010 GMT Source:Continue reading here…Courtesy:AP via Yahoo! News
Title: Raloxifene, Tamoxifen Both Guard Against Breast CancerSummary:MONDAY, April 19 (HealthDay News) — The latest results from a landmark, long-running study find that both tamoxifen and raloxifene help prevent breast cancer in postmenopausal women, although some differences are starting to emerge between the two drugs.Published on : Mon Apr 19 16:02:57 2010 GMT Source:Continue reading [...]
Title: Study: Bone drug lowers breast cancer risk 38% in high-risk womenSummary:Raloxifene, also known as Evista, is shown to reduce the risk of breast cancer without the side effects of Tamoxifen.Published on : Mon Apr 19 18:10:15 2010 GMT Source:Continue reading here…Courtesy:USA Today
Title: Raloxifene, Tamoxifen Both Guard Against Breast CancerSummary:MONDAY, April 19 (HealthDay News) — The latest results from a landmark, long-running study find that both tamoxifen and raloxifene help prevent breast cancer in postmenopausal women, although some differences are starting to emerge between the two drugs.Published on : Mon Apr 19 16:02:57 2010 GMT Last updated [...]
Title: Vitamin and Calcium Supplements May Reduce Breast Cancer RiskSummary:* Risk of breast cancer was reduced by 30 to 40 percent. * Calcium works by enhancing DNA repair capacity. * Effect of vitamins is long term and independent of DNA repair capacity.Published on : Sun Apr 18 18:40:17 2010 GMT Source:Continue reading here…Courtesy:Newswise
Title: Routine breast cancer biopsy might predict lymph node cancer spreadSummary:( Georgetown University Medical Center ) Predicting breast cancer spread from a sentinel lymph node removed during surgery is a hit or miss affair, say researchers: there are still many false negatives, which means the node, when analyzed under a microscope, appears clean of cancer [...]
