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Not exact matches
By Andrew M. Seaman NEW YORK (Reuters Health)- Factors other than medical history and risk may influence women with
cancer in one
breast to have both
breasts removed even if it doesn't improve their odds of survival, suggests a new
study.
According to a
study published
by Lund University Publications, the longer a woman breastfeeds, the less likely she is to develop
breast cancer.
In fact, a
study published
by The Archives of Internal Medicine found that for women with an immediate family member who had
breast cancer, those who breastfeed have a 59 % lower risk of developing
breast cancer.
But a larger group of
studies over the past ten years has proved that women who breastfeed their children past the age of two years actually reduce their chances of contracting pre-menopausal
breast cancer by 30 percent.
After standardizing the data for age, menopausal status, and economic standing of her country (so that these factors did not influence the results), this
study concluded that a woman who breastfed for 12 months in her life reduced her risk of developing
breast cancer by 4.3 %.
A
study of nearly 3,000 women conducted
by researchers at the University of Buffalo in New York found women who experienced morning sickness during pregnancy were 30 percent less likely to have
breast cancer later in life.
According to the recent
study, which will be published next month in the print version of the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, breastfeeding can cut the risk of
breast cancer by up to 91 percent.
Rather than posting what color your bra is or where you «like it» why not post something informative like this
study which shows that breastfeeding for at least 2 years lowers the typical woman's
breast cancer risk
by 50 %?
Or this
study which shows that if you have a family history of
breast cancer, breastfeeding for just 3 months can cut your chances of getting
breast cancer by 50 % and be just as beneficial as taking
breast cancer preventing medication for FIVE years?
One
study indicates that
breast cancer in the United States could decline
by 25 % if all women would breastfeed their children for at least two years.
Aug. 10, 2009 — Women with a family history of
breast cancer who have ever breastfed reduce their risk of getting premenopausal
breast cancer by nearly 60 %, according to a new
study.
Studies in which women who already have
breast cancer are asked about their breastfeeding history can be flawed
by «recall bias,» she says.
BREAST cancer screening in East Anglia has reduced deaths from the disease by nearly half, according to a study published in the British Journal of Cancer * today (Tue
cancer screening in East Anglia has reduced deaths from the disease
by nearly half, according to a
study published in the British Journal of
Cancer * today (Tue
Cancer * today (Tuesday).
If supported
by further
studies, he believes that the monitoring should be carried out at regular intervals after the
breast cancer surgery.
The
study, led
by Dr Len Stephens and Dr Phill Hawkins and published today in the journal Molecular Cell, reveals why loss of the PTEN gene has such an impact on many people with prostate
cancer, as well as in some
breast cancers.
«Nonetheless, the proof of concept
studies we have obtained thus far are extremely encouraging, and we are confident that with proper support and efforts we could translate our findings into experimental therapeutics for a variety of solid tumors that are driven
by EphA2 overexpression, including
breast, lung, prostate, pancreatic, and ovarian
cancers,» said Pellecchia, who serves as the founding director of the Center for Molecular and Translational Medicine at UCR.
An earlier
study that didn't take parental influence into account found one variant on chromosome 11 raised the risk of
breast cancer by 7 per cent.
But a major
study by a Danish team, to be published this Saturday in The Lancet should help allay those fears: It found the risk of death among more than 5000
breast cancer survivors was no greater for those women who became pregnant.
Vitamin C has previously been shown to be effective as a non-toxic anti-
cancer agent in
studies by Nobel Prize winner Linus Pauling and was recently shown to reduce mortality
by 25 % on
breast cancer patients in Japan.
In the Cell
study, Dr. Massagué, with Fellow Manuel Valiente, PhD, and other team members, found that in mouse models of
breast and lung
cancer — two tumor types that often spread to the brain — many
cancer cells that enter the brain are killed
by astrocytes.
The MINDACT
study is managed and sponsored
by the EORTC in collaboration with the
Breast International Group (BIG) and included 6,693 women with early stage breast cancer (lymph node negative or 1 - 3 lymph node posi
Breast International Group (BIG) and included 6,693 women with early stage
breast cancer (lymph node negative or 1 - 3 lymph node posi
breast cancer (lymph node negative or 1 - 3 lymph node positive).
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 coming
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 coming
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 coming
cancer that was at a low risk of coming back.
Surgical oncologists, or
cancer surgeons, usually remove breast cancers by relying on tactile feedback and radiologic images of the tumor, such as mammograms and ultrasound images, said M. Catherine Lee, MD, FACS, coauthor of the first study and associate professor of surgery at H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa,
cancer surgeons, usually remove
breast cancers by relying on tactile feedback and radiologic images of the tumor, such as mammograms and ultrasound images, said M. Catherine Lee, MD, FACS, coauthor of the first
study and associate professor of surgery at H. Lee Moffitt
Cancer Center, Tampa,
Cancer Center, Tampa, Fla..
The
study, «AKR1B1 promotes basal - like
breast cancer progression
by a positive feedback loop that activates the EMT program,» which has been published in The Journal of Experimental Medicine, suggests that an inhibitor of this enzyme currently used to treat diabetes patients could be an effective therapy for this frequently deadly form of
cancer.
Extensive
studies have found that 20 % to 30 % of
breast cancers are characterized
by over-expression of HER2, which makes the
cancer cells grow and divide faster, leading to a
cancer that's more aggressive and more likely to be resistant to the standard of care.
These carriers were found to have only a 56 % chance of developing
breast cancer by age 70, compared with a figure of 87 % in previous
studies.
Another
study, conducted
by Barbara Weber and her colleagues at the University of Pennsylvania, screened 263
breast cancer patients for BRCA1 mutations and asked them about their family history of
breast and ovarian
cancers.
Stamets furnished capsules of freeze - dried fungus for a seven - year, NIH - funded
study by Bastyr University and the University of Minnesota to determine whether turkey tail mushrooms could help
breast cancer patients whose immune systems had been compromised
by radiation therapy.
«Obesity is a well - established risk factor for
breast cancer in the general population and some
studies suggest that maintaining a healthy lifestyle
by exercising or avoiding obesity may decrease the likelihood of developing
cancer in BRCA mutation carriers.»
To see whether
cancer stem cell renewal involves a chain of events similar to that used
by embryonic stem cells, and whether the process was affected
by oxygen levels, Semenza and graduate student Chuanzhao Zhang focused their
studies on two human
breast cancer cell lines that responded to low oxygen
by ramping up production of the protein ALKBH5, which removes methyl groups from mRNAs.
Using data from a previously published, multi-center
study funded
by the National
Cancer Institute, researchers aimed to identify the possible benefits of assigning patient navigators to women recently diagnosed with breast c
Cancer Institute, researchers aimed to identify the possible benefits of assigning patient navigators to women recently diagnosed with
breast cancercancer.
A team led
by Mary - Frances O'Connor of the University of California, Los Angeles,
studied 23 women — 11 of whom suffered from CG — who had lost a mother or sister to
breast cancer in the past five years.
The groundbreaking
study identified a protein, known as cadherin - 22, as a potential factor in
cancer metastasis, or spread, and showed that hindering it decreased the adhesion and invasion rate of
breast and brain
cancer cells
by up to 90 per cent.
The three Ras genes found in humans — H - Ras, K - Ras and N - Ras — were among the first to be linked to
cancer development, and a new study led by VCU Massey Cancer Center researcher Paul Dent, Ph.D., has shown the recently approved breast cancer drug neratinib can block the function of Ras as well as several other oncogenes through an unexpected pr
cancer development, and a new
study led
by VCU Massey
Cancer Center researcher Paul Dent, Ph.D., has shown the recently approved breast cancer drug neratinib can block the function of Ras as well as several other oncogenes through an unexpected pr
Cancer Center researcher Paul Dent, Ph.D., has shown the recently approved
breast cancer drug neratinib can block the function of Ras as well as several other oncogenes through an unexpected pr
cancer drug neratinib can block the function of Ras as well as several other oncogenes through an unexpected process.
Produced
by the UK Small Area Health Statistics Unit (SAHSU), part of the MRC - PHE Centre for Environment & Health based at Imperial College London, the open - access atlas allows researchers, policy makers and members of the public to
study the geographical pattern of 14 diseases and conditions such as lung
cancer,
breast cancer, heart disease, leukemia and low birth weight.
«
By understanding how stress accelerates invasion in aggressive
breast tumor cells, this work will inform future
studies into whether beta - blockers could be a useful adjuvant therapy in the treatment of some aggressive
breast cancers.»
Led
by researchers at Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM), the
study appears online in
Breast Cancer Research.
The
study, which will be published December 21 in the Journal of Cell Biology, suggests that the loss of these particular Numb proteins makes
breast cancers more aggressive and resistant to chemotherapy, but points the way toward new therapeutic approaches that could improve patient outcome
by preserving p53 levels.
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.
The team has
studied the most common kind of
breast tumour — estrogen - positive (ER +) and accounting for 80 % of
breast cancer tumour cases — that is characterised
by a long period of latency with no symptoms.
The findings of the randomized
study (S6 - 03) were presented at the 2014 San Antonio
Breast Cancer Symposium, held Dec. 6 - 9,
by Dr. Kerin Adelson, assistant professor of medical oncology at Yale
Cancer Center and chief quality officer at Smilow
Cancer Hospital at Yale - New Haven.
For the current
study, scientists led
by Helmneh Sineshaw, M.D., MPH, analyzed data from 260,174
breast cancer cases recorded in the National Cancer Data Base (NCDB), a national hospital - based cancer registry database jointly sponsored by the American College of Surgeons and the American Cancer So
cancer cases recorded in the National
Cancer Data Base (NCDB), a national hospital - based cancer registry database jointly sponsored by the American College of Surgeons and the American Cancer So
Cancer Data Base (NCDB), a national hospital - based
cancer registry database jointly sponsored by the American College of Surgeons and the American Cancer So
cancer registry database jointly sponsored
by the American College of Surgeons and the American
Cancer So
Cancer Society.
Should the results be confirmed
by further
studies, it is possible that patients with certain genetic changes in BRCA1 could be identified as being at higher risk of
breast and ovarian
cancer.
«Brain metastases are a secondary brain tumour, which means they are caused
by cancer cells that escape from primary tumours like lung,
breast or melanoma, and travel to the brain,» said Mohini Singh, the
study's primary author and a PhD candidate in biochemistry at the Michael G. DeGroote School of Medicine at McMaster.
Researchers conducted an analysis that included nearly 10,000 women with the BRCA1 or BRCA2 genetic mutations to estimate the age - specific risk of
breast or ovarian
cancer for women with these mutations, according to a
study published
by JAMA.
The
study follows similar investigations
by Garland and colleagues of other
cancers, including
breast, colon, pancreas, bladder and multiple myeloma.
Several authors of this
study are supported
by the
Breast Cancer Research Foundation.
The largest (Hellquist et al) and longest running (Tabár et al)
breast cancer screening
studies in history reconfirm that regular screening cut
breast cancer deaths
by roughly a third in all women ages 40 - and - over — including those 40 - 49 — and disprove the lower USPSTF estimates.
In this
study, the researchers tested the effects of Olaparib on the tumors formed
by human
breast cancer cells injected into mice.