Parents spend hours planning to talk with their children about the "birds and bees." But moms and dads often ignore an equally important conversation-;discussing their family's overall health history.
With the advent of new therapies, cancer patients are surviving longer than ever before -- but the incidence of side-effect chemotherapy-induced cardiomyopathy (CHIC), or weakness of the heart muscle, is increasing.
We want to hear from women who have or have had breast cancer and are suffering from sexual problems. A new survey has revealed that nearly half of women diagnosed with breast cancer have experienced sexual difficulties as a result of...
A pacemaker-like device restored heart function in a group of cancer survivors -- mostly women with breast cancer -- who had suffered from heart failure as a result of chemotherapy treatment, a study in the Journal of the American...
New research presented at the Society for Endocrinology annual conference in Brighton appears to identify novel methods of therapy for an aggressive type of breast cancer as well as uncovering potential causative factors. The focus of...
A new study in The American Journal of Pathology, published by Elsevier, reports that medroxyprogesterone acetate (MPA), the active ingredient in the common contraceptive injection Depo-Provera, was effective in preventing the...
In a new study, scientists observed several simultaneous reactions in mice given a common chemotherapy drug: Their gut bacteria and tissue changed, their blood and brains showed signs of inflammation, and their behaviors suggested they...
Tamoxifen is the oldest and most-prescribed selective estrogen receptor modulator (SERM). Tamoxifen is approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to treat: women and men diagnosed with hormone-receptor-positive, early-stage...
Mammography is the current state-of-the-art method for detecting and diagnosing breast cancer. However, even a mammogram doesn't detect certain subtle breast cancers, especially those in younger women who typically have denser breast...
Neuroblastoma is the most common cancer outside of the brain in infants and young children and often fails to respond to therapy. Though it can appear in several areas of the body, it commonly develops as a solid tumor most frequently...
Scientists have found that manipulating a cell signal, involving vitamin D, can slow the growth of melanoma cells and their advance to the lungs in mice.
Alteration of the PI3K/AKT/mTOR pathway is a common genomic abnormality detected in triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC). Everolimus acts synergistically with eribulin in TNBC cell lines and xenograft models. ...
Using cells from human breast cancers and mouse breast cancer models, researchers say they have significant new evidence that tumor cells exposed to low-oxygen conditions have an advantage when it comes to invading and surviving in the...
Physical activity (PA) before and after breast cancer diagnosis has been reported to be associated with lower mortality. However, whether changes in the activity after diagnosis impact prognosis is unclear and...
SPoT-Light HER2 CISH, which stands for Subtraction Probe Technology Chromogenic In Situ Hybridization, is a test used see if breast cancer cells are HER2-positive. HER2-positive cells have too many HER2 receptor proteins at the cell...
Fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) is a test that “maps” the genetic material in a person’s cells. This test can be used to visualize specific genes or portions of genes. FISH testing is done on breast cancer tissue removed during...
The Prosigna Breast Cancer Prognostic Gene Signature Assay (formerly called the PAM50 test), made by NanoString, is a genomic test that analyzes the activity of certain genes in early-stage, hormone-receptor-positive breast cancer....
The Oncotype DX test is a genomic test that analyzes the activity of a group of genes that can affect how a cancer is likely to behave and respond to treatment. The Oncotype DX is used in two ways: to help doctors figure out a woman’s...
When you schedule a mammogram, you’ll hear what’s become standard advice for the day of your screening: don’t wear underarm deodorant or antiperspirant. The same goes for any powders, creams, or lotions applied under the arms, in the...
Breastcancer.org believes that all medical decisions, including if and when to screen for breast cancer, are decisions to be made by each woman and her doctor. The value of screening mammograms was questioned in November 2009 when the...
Mammograms don’t prevent breast cancer, but they can save lives by finding breast cancer as early as possible. The value of screening mammograms was questioned in November 2009 when the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force recommended...
The MammaPrint test, made by Agendia, is a genomic test that analyzes the activity of certain genes in early-stage breast cancer. Research suggests the MammaPrint test may eventually be widely used to help make treatment decisions based...
IHC, or ImmunoHistoChemistry, is a special staining process performed on fresh or frozen breast cancer tissue removed during biopsy. IHC is used to show whether or not the cancer cells have HER2 receptors and/or hormone receptors on...
The EndoPredict Test, offered by Myriad Genetics, Inc., is a genomic test for people newly diagnosed with early-stage, estrogen-receptor-positive, HER2-negative breast cancer. Research suggests the EndoPredict test may be widely used to...
2019 October 21, 2019; Medium.com; The Beauty Brands Contributing to 'Breast Cancer Awareness' Are Also Contributing to Cancer October 17, 2019; People.com ; Jennifer Garner Shares a Video of Her Mammogram Appointment for Breast Cancer...
Older women diagnosed with DCIS see no long-term benefits from having sentinel lymph node biopsy to see if the cancer has spread beyond the breast to the lymph nodes, according to a study by Yale University researchers. The study was...
An analysis of three studies on different CDK4/6 inhibitors in combination with an aromatase inhibitor to treat postmenopausal women diagnosed with metastatic, hormone-receptor-positive, HER2-negative breast cancer found the treatment...
A study found testing all people diagnosed with breast cancer for mutations in three genes linked to a high risk of the disease — BRCA1 , BRCA2 , and PALB2 — would be “extremely cost-effective” compared to testing based on family history...
A small study found that many Irish women being treated with chemotherapy for early-stage breast cancer had levels of vitamin D that were lower than recommended. The research was presented on Sept. 29, 2019, at the European Society for...
The American College of Sports Medicine updated its guidelines on exercise for cancer prevention, as well as guidelines on exercise to ease a number of treatment side effects, including fatigue, depression, physical functioning, and...
While there have been no clinical trials specifically focused on male breast cancer in the United States, treatment of this disease has evolved over the years and researchers now know factors linked to better survival, according to a...
Researchers from the United Kingdom are developing a blood test that could help doctors easily detect breast cancer up to 5 years before symptoms occur.
Breast cancer could be detected up to five years before there are any clinical signs of it, using a blood test that identifies the body's immune response to substances produced by tumor cells, according to new research.
Study by Nottingham researchers shows immune response to tumour cells can reveal disease Breast cancer could be detected five years before clinical signs appear in patients thanks to a blood test that could identify the body’s immune...
Aggressive forms of breast cancer often manipulate the immune response in their favor. This manipulation is revealed in humans by the same immunological 'signature' as in mice. This is shown by a new study. The method makes it possible...
Breast cancer patients who endured Hurricane Katrina in 2005 have a 15% higher mortality rate than those patients not exposed to the storm, according to a researcher.
Pink Week has raised hundreds of thousands of pounds from younger people. Its success should be a lesson to other charities When I was 16 I founded my charity, Pink Week, to raise awareness of breast cancer among young people. It’s a...
Drugs can be safely delivered to cancerous lymph nodes via the lymphatic system and then released inside the nodes using sound waves. Researchers tested the treatment on mice with metastatic breast cancer.
Given that breast cancer and normal dense fibroglandular tissue have similar radiographic attenuation, we examine whether automated volumetric density measures identify a differential change between breasts in...
Researchers have uncovered new details about several proteins implicated in tumor growth and metastasis, opening a potential avenue for the development of treatments for diseases such as breast cancer.
Inflammatory breast cancer is a rare and aggressive form of breast cancer with a high mortality rate. This article explains the symptoms, treatment, and prognosis of the disease.
Men with breast cancer are more likely to die than their female counterparts, across all stages of disease, with the disparity persisting even when clinical characteristics, such as cancer types, treatment and access to care are...
Women with an aggressive, less-common type of breast cancer, known as triple-negative, versus a more common form of the disease, could be differentiated from each other by a panel of 17 small RNA molecules that are directly influenced by...
Triple-negative breast cancer has extremely high risk of relapse due to the lack of targeted therapies, intra- and inter-tumoral heterogeneity, and the inherent and acquired resistance to therapies. In this st...
Chemotherapy is a standard therapeutic regimen to treat triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC); however, chemotherapy alone does not result in significant improvement and often leads to drug resistance in patien...