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It seemed so obvious,» said the artist, whose husband, George Leeson, publishes and distributes fine arts posters and whose daughter, Dawn Hershman, is an oncologist who's co-director of breast cancer research at Columbia University.

Her passion for natural medicine and desire to have direct contact with patients led Vera to qualify in Naturopathy and Herbal Medicine at The College of Naturopathic Medicine in London, and today she successfully combines her two passions as the Marion Gluck Clinic's naturopath as well as carrying out essential breast cancer research at the Institute of Cancer Research at The Royal Marsden Hospital.

«The findings may lead us toward characterizing risk earlier then we do now and intervening to prevent breast cancer earlier than we do now,» says lead researcher Norman Boyd, MD, a scientist at the Campbell Family Institute for Breast Cancer Research at Princess Margaret Hospital in Toronto.

«Mostly they don't know what they're feeling or are not confident,» says Janet Wolter, MD, a medical oncologist and the Brian Piccolo Chair of Breast Cancer Research at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago.

This can be especially useful for young women with dense breasts, says Janet Wolter, MD, a medical oncologist and the Brian Piccolo chair of Breast Cancer Research at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago, because their home breast self - exams (BSEs) are trickier to interpret.

LI2Day donated $ 2,000 to CSHL, having donated nearly $ 300,000 to support breast cancer research at the CSHL since 2004...

Michael Maringo established the Carissa Maringo Fund to support breast cancer research at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory...

turned into 10 years of systematic research to identify the enzyme PLK4 as a promising therapeutic target and develop a small molecule inhibitor to block it,» says Dr. Mak, Director of The Campbell Family Institute for Breast Cancer Research at the Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, University Health Network.

Blocking Out the Light «At my home, we have heavy drapes to block the light at night,» says Steven Hill, chairman of breast cancer research at Tulane University and widely regarded as a pioneer in the field.

Not exact matches

Yet, while Shelley Hwang, chief of breast surgery at Duke Cancer Institute and vice chair of research at Duke University's Department of Surgery, agrees in principle, she also has concerns about all the new diagnostic potential that will come with precision medicine.

And when Ziskin's breast cancer had reemerged with brutal efficiency after a long remission, Parker had managed to get her into a last - ditch immunotherapy protocol at the Hutch, the famed Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle — chartering private planes at his own expense to shepherd her back and forth from Los Ancancer had reemerged with brutal efficiency after a long remission, Parker had managed to get her into a last - ditch immunotherapy protocol at the Hutch, the famed Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle — chartering private planes at his own expense to shepherd her back and forth from Los AnCancer Research Center in Seattle — chartering private planes at his own expense to shepherd her back and forth from Los Angeles.

Here's something most of them don't know: They're also lowering their own risk for breast cancer, according to experts at the American Institute for Cancer Research (cancer, according to experts at the American Institute for Cancer Research (Cancer Research (AICR).

This particular meta - study reported that breastfeeding provides up to a 28 % decrease in risk of developing breast cancer at any age (pre - or post-menopausal) for women without a family history of the disease, who breastfed for 12 months or longer (World Cancer Research Fund and American Institute for Cancer Research, cancer at any age (pre - or post-menopausal) for women without a family history of the disease, who breastfed for 12 months or longer (World Cancer Research Fund and American Institute for Cancer Research, Cancer Research Fund and American Institute for Cancer Research, Cancer Research, 2007).

One caveat: Research has shown that excess pounds put you at greater risk for breast cancer, so shedding that post-pregnancy weight is important.

«It is a huge reduction in risk,» says Amanda Phipps, a pre-doctoral research associate at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, of the nearly 60 % decreased risk in women who breastfeed and have a family history of breastresearch associate at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, of the nearly 60 % decreased risk in women who breastfeed and have a family history of breast cCancer Research Center in Seattle, of the nearly 60 % decreased risk in women who breastfeed and have a family history of breastResearch Center in Seattle, of the nearly 60 % decreased risk in women who breastfeed and have a family history of breast cancercancer.

«Overall, in the whole group of women we studied, women who had breastfed were 25 % less likely to develop premenopausal breast cancer than women who had never breastfed,» says Stuebe, who conducted the research while at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston.

Pete has supported legislation to increase Medicare reimbursements for screening and diagnostic mammographies; fund research centers to study the relationship between the environment and breast cancer; and require insurance companies to guarantee at least 48 hours hospital care after a mastectomy.»

Responding to a review of 19 research papers, funded by Cancer Research UK, which reported information on cancer false alarms and the impact on people reporting future symptoms, including six carried out in the UK, Davinia Green, Head of Breast Awareness and Early Detection at Breast Cancer Carresearch papers, funded by Cancer Research UK, which reported information on cancer false alarms and the impact on people reporting future symptoms, including six carried out in the UK, Davinia Green, Head of Breast Awareness and Early Detection at Breast Cancer Care,Cancer Research UK, which reported information on cancer false alarms and the impact on people reporting future symptoms, including six carried out in the UK, Davinia Green, Head of Breast Awareness and Early Detection at Breast Cancer CarResearch UK, which reported information on cancer false alarms and the impact on people reporting future symptoms, including six carried out in the UK, Davinia Green, Head of Breast Awareness and Early Detection at Breast Cancer Care,cancer false alarms and the impact on people reporting future symptoms, including six carried out in the UK, Davinia Green, Head of Breast Awareness and Early Detection at Breast Cancer Care,Cancer Care, says:

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Commenting on research, to be published in the July issue of The Oncologist, looking at discrimination in treatment of older women with breast cancer.

Responding to MPs» rejection of the House of Lords» amendments to the Welfare Reform Bill in the House of Commons today (Wednesday 1 February 2012), Liz Carroll, Director of Policy and Research at Breast Cancer Care said:

Professor Stephen Duffy, lead researcher and Cancer Research UK's professor of cancer screening, said: «The results of our study showed that the NHS breast cancer screening programme has been even more effective at saving lives than we predCancer Research UK's professor of cancer screening, said: «The results of our study showed that the NHS breast cancer screening programme has been even more effective at saving lives than we predcancer screening, said: «The results of our study showed that the NHS breast cancer screening programme has been even more effective at saving lives than we predcancer screening programme has been even more effective at saving lives than we predicted.

Commenting on research, to be published in the July issue of The Oncologist, looking at discrimination in treatment of older women with breast cancer, Jane Hatfield, Director of Policy and Research at Breast Cancer Carresearch, to be published in the July issue of The Oncologist, looking at discrimination in treatment of older women with breast cancer, Jane Hatfield, Director of Policy and Research at Breast Cancer Care,breast cancer, Jane Hatfield, Director of Policy and Research at Breast Cancer Care,cancer, Jane Hatfield, Director of Policy and Research at Breast Cancer CarResearch at Breast Cancer Care,Breast Cancer Care,Cancer Care, said:

Ms. Burt chose the Valley breast surgery team after carefully researching her treatment options for DCIS (ductal carcinoma in situ), a diagnosis that is often debated among clinicians as to whether it should be classified as breast cancer at all.

This work was supported by the Carney Family Charitable Foundation, the National Cancer Institute's SPORE in Breast Cancer at Dana - Farber / Harvard Cancer Center (grant P50CA168504), STIMIT Corporation, and the Claudia Adams Barr Program for Innovative Cancer Research.

The research team conducted a cross-sectional survey of women who underwent breast cancer surgery for invasive breast cancer or ductal carcinoma in situ at Women & Infants Hospital.

«This study may have implications not only for breast cancer, but for many metastatic cancers,» said Ravi Thadhani, MD, MPH, vice dean, Research and Graduate Research Education, at Cedars - Sinai.

The researchers at 30 radiotherapy centres across the UK, led by The Institute of Cancer Research, London, and the Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre, studied more than 2,000 women aged 50 or over who had early stage breast cancer that was at a low risk of comingCancer Research, London, and the Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre, studied more than 2,000 women aged 50 or over who had early stage breast cancer that was at a low risk of comingCancer Research UK Cambridge Centre, studied more than 2,000 women aged 50 or over who had early stage breast cancer that was at a low risk of comingcancer that was at a low risk of coming back.

«This study forms the basis for future research in patients with breast cancer and offers hope for targeted therapy for patients with aggressive triple - negative inflammatory breast cancer,» said lead researcher Mateusz Opyrchal, M.D., Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Oncology at RPCI.

Readers will have at their fingertips key articles in the history of science from the late 19th through the early 21st centuries, including research about the human genome, breast and colon cancer genes, and the Bose - Einstein condensate in physics.

Invisible tattoos could replace the permanent dark ink tattoos used to ensure that breast cancer patients having radiotherapy are treated in exactly the same spot during each session, according to results from a pilot study to be presented at the National Cancer Research Institute (NCRI) Cancer Confecancer patients having radiotherapy are treated in exactly the same spot during each session, according to results from a pilot study to be presented at the National Cancer Research Institute (NCRI) Cancer ConfeCancer Research Institute (NCRI) Cancer ConfeCancer Conference.

Steven Narod, director of the Familial Breast Cancer Research Unit at Women's College Research Institution in Toronto, believes that cost and not flawed computer programs are to blame for undertesting.

Extending national breast cancer screening programs to women over the age of 70 does not result in a decrease in the numbers of cancers detected at advanced stages, according to new research from The Netherlands.

Dr Gerrit - Jan Liefers (MD, PhD), a surgical oncologist and head of the geriatric oncology research group at Leiden University Medical Centre (Leiden, The Netherlands), said: «For a screening program to be effective, one would expect that the incidence of early stage breast cancer would increase while the incidence of advanced stage cancer would decrease because any cancer would have been detected at an earlier stage.

Besides working at IBM's Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, New York, Meyer heads something called the DREAM challenges, contests that ask teams of computer scientists to solve outstanding biomedical problems, such as predicting the outcome of prostate cancer treatment based on clinical variables or detecting breast cancer from mammogram data.

Li says he and colleagues at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and the University of Washington found the correlation between migraines and breast cancer during a survey of 2,000 post-menopausal women with breast cancer and 1,500 post-menopausal women with no history of breast cCancer Research Center and the University of Washington found the correlation between migraines and breast cancer during a survey of 2,000 post-menopausal women with breast cancer and 1,500 post-menopausal women with no history of breast ccancer during a survey of 2,000 post-menopausal women with breast cancer and 1,500 post-menopausal women with no history of breast ccancer and 1,500 post-menopausal women with no history of breast cancercancer.

Researchers at the Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Research in Portland, Ore., concluded there is definitely a link between breast cancer and the use of menopausal hormone therapy, particularly estrogen - progestin treatment combinations.

«The findings of both studies support a growing body of research that suggests lifestyle interventions lower biomarkers associated with breast cancer recurrence and mortality, and improve quality of life,» said Melinda Irwin, PhD, co-program leader of the Cancer Prevention and Control Research Program at Yale Cancer Center, associate professor of Epidemiology at Yale School of Public Health, and principal investigator on both research that suggests lifestyle interventions lower biomarkers associated with breast cancer recurrence and mortality, and improve quality of life,» said Melinda Irwin, PhD, co-program leader of the Cancer Prevention and Control Research Program at Yale Cancer Center, associate professor of Epidemiology at Yale School of Public Health, and principal investigator on both stcancer recurrence and mortality, and improve quality of life,» said Melinda Irwin, PhD, co-program leader of the Cancer Prevention and Control Research Program at Yale Cancer Center, associate professor of Epidemiology at Yale School of Public Health, and principal investigator on both stCancer Prevention and Control Research Program at Yale Cancer Center, associate professor of Epidemiology at Yale School of Public Health, and principal investigator on both Research Program at Yale Cancer Center, associate professor of Epidemiology at Yale School of Public Health, and principal investigator on both stCancer Center, associate professor of Epidemiology at Yale School of Public Health, and principal investigator on both studies.

Principal investigator E. Shelley Hwang, M.D., chief of breast surgery at the Duke Cancer Institute and vice chair of research in the Duke University Department of Surgery, will lead the study through the cooperative group, The Alliance for Clinical Trials in Oncology.

The Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation, for example, received more than four times its usual number of applications owing to cuts in NIH spending on breast cancer research, according to Paula Witt - Enderby, a researcher at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh and a member of the charity's grant review Breast Cancer Foundation, for example, received more than four times its usual number of applications owing to cuts in NIH spending on breast cancer research, according to Paula Witt - Enderby, a researcher at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh and a member of the charity's grant review Cancer Foundation, for example, received more than four times its usual number of applications owing to cuts in NIH spending on breast cancer research, according to Paula Witt - Enderby, a researcher at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh and a member of the charity's grant review breast cancer research, according to Paula Witt - Enderby, a researcher at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh and a member of the charity's grant review cancer research, according to Paula Witt - Enderby, a researcher at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh and a member of the charity's grant review panel.

«Despite the presence of a universal health insurance system in Ontario, our research highlights the persistence of significant health disparities in breast cancer screening, particularly for women who are more vulnerable due to severe disability, multiple chronic conditions, low income and lower education,» said Dr. Guilcher, who has a PhD in Clinical Epidemiology at the Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto.

Dr Matthew Lam, Senior Research Officer at Breakthrough Breast Cancer, said: «The conclusions that the researchers have drawn, whilst just hypotheses at this stage, are certainly interesting.

Led by researchers at Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM), the study appears online in Breast Cancer Research.

A study headed by ICREA researcher Roger Gomis at the Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona) has identified the genes involved in the latent asymptomatic state of breast cancer metastases.

Among postmenopausal women with normal body mass index (BMI), those with higher body fat levels had an increased risk for invasive breast cancer, according to data presented at the American Association for Cancer Research Special Conference Obesity and Cancer: Mechanisms Underlying Etiology and Outcomes, held Jan. 27cancer, according to data presented at the American Association for Cancer Research Special Conference Obesity and Cancer: Mechanisms Underlying Etiology and Outcomes, held Jan. 27Cancer Research Special Conference Obesity and Cancer: Mechanisms Underlying Etiology and Outcomes, held Jan. 27Cancer: Mechanisms Underlying Etiology and Outcomes, held Jan. 27 - 30.

An enriched hops extract activates a chemical pathway in cells that could help prevent breast cancer, according to new laboratory findings from the UIC / NIH Center for Botanical Dietary Supplements Research at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

Katherine Woods, Research Communications Manager at Breast Cancer Campaign, said: «There is still so much we don't know about DCIS.

«I do breast cancer research for my PhD,» tweeted Sarah Hengel, a graduate student at the University of Iowa in Iowa City.

«This research is an important advance in the potential expansion of fertility preservation options for young patients who may not be able to undergo hormone stimulation to induce ovulation before beginning chemotherapy,» says study author Jacqueline S. Jeruss, M.D., Ph.D., associate professor of surgery and director of the Breast Care Center at the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center.