Sentences with phrase «other than breast cancer»

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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.

DEAR MAYO CLINIC: Why is it that some breast cancers have higher survival rates than others?

Smoking is also the leading cause — in fact, it's practically the only cause — of lung cancer, which kills more American women every year than any other cancer, including breast cancer.

If any particular lump feels much firmer than the other areas of your breast, visit your doctor for a clinical breast exam, and discuss whether imaging studies or a needle biopsy should be done to rule out breast cancer.

Almost every day another health research finding is made about whole grains, a serving of vegetables, two fruits per day, cashews, legumes, fish, or some other food, other than milk that is, and their connection to a reduced risk of heart disease, breast cancer, stroke, diabetes, or other disease.

The study indicated that even a small period of breastfeeding reduces the risk of these stubborn tumors, which are more common in younger women and generally have a poorer prognosis than other subtypes of breast cancer.

Many women who develop breast cancer have no known risk factors other than simply being women.

According to BreastCancer.org, breastfeeding longer than a year will reduce your risk of breast cancer, ovarian cancers, and several other kinds of cancer.

Akeredolu who led a delegation of Breast Cancer Association of Nigeria (BRECAN) to visit the Lagos state Governor, Mr. Akinwumi Ambode, said rather than seeking medical help such people go from one prayer house to the other for solution to their problem.

Commenting on research from Phillipe Autier et al published in the BMJ online which claims that UK breast cancer mortality rates have fallen faster than other EU countries.

The UK has seen greater decreases in the number of women dying from breast cancer than many other European countries over this period, though this is partly because death rates were relatively high in the 1980s.

Mutations in the genes that defend the body against cancer - related viruses and other infections may play a larger role in breast cancer than previously thought, according to a study at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

The researchers studied triple - negative breast cancer cells, which grow and spread faster than most other types of cancer cells.

Triple - negative tumors are aggressive and more likely to metastasize than other breast cancers, and there is no effective treatment.

The study published in Cancer Cell shows that exosomes from tumor cells of breast cancer (and other tumor types such as ovarian and endometrial) are different in size and composition than those of healthy Cancer Cell shows that exosomes from tumor cells of breast cancer (and other tumor types such as ovarian and endometrial) are different in size and composition than those of healthy cancer (and other tumor types such as ovarian and endometrial) are different in size and composition than those of healthy cells.

Triple - negative tumors are also more likely to spread and recur than other types of breast cancers.

Instead, researchers told the European Breast Cancer Conference that their findings suggest that extending screening programs to older women results in a large proportion of women being over-treated, and at risk from the harmful effects of such treatment, because these women were more likely to die from other causes than from any tumors detected in the early stages of growth.

In India, where people eat more dairy in the form of yogurt, other researchers have documented higher rates of breast cancer but still lower than those of Western nations.

Triple - negative breast cancers tend to grow and spread more quickly than most other types of breast cancer, and a lack of these receptors limits treatment options.

The prognosis for HER2 - positive breast cancer patients is worse than for those with other subtypes of the illness.

The HER2 gene is overactive in more than one - fifth of all breast cancers and operates in a host of other tumors that may prove vulnerable to oleic acid.

A 2005 study showed that 92 percent of nearly 3,000 women with breast cancer who walked or did other exercise three to five hours weekly were still alive 10 years after their diagnosis, compared with 86 percent of those who exercised less than an hour a week.

Zeroing in on this kinase was encouraging, Goga said, because other researchers have shown that genetic - knockout mice that lack the entire family of PIM kinases are slightly smaller than normal mice, but «basically fine,» indicating that a drug targeting just PIM1 may have manageable levels of toxicity in breast cancer patients.

By picking out people with the mutation from a large population and then examining their lifestyles and family histories, researchers hope to be able to identify factors other than the mutation that are also linked to breast cancer.

A long - term study shows that women who underwent in vitro fertilization are not significantly more likely to develop breast cancer than women in the general public or women who opted for other fertility treatments.

The findings, now published in PLOS Genetics, reveal how mice can actually mimic human breast cancer tissue and its genes, even more so than previously thought, as well as other cancers including lung, oral and esophagus.

Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have discovered why breast cancer patients with dense breasts are more likely than others to develop aggressive tumors that spread.

Dr. Rhodes and colleagues also found that respondents from Connecticut were more likely than residents of other states to be aware of the potential masking effect of breast density on mammographic detection of cancer and were more likely to have discussed breast density with a health care provider.

Additionally, the prognosis for patients with TNBC is usually poorer than for those with other types of breast cancers.

In the era of personalized cancer therapy, patients with TNBC remain at considerably higher risk of relapse and death than patients with other breast cancer subtypes, due to the aggressive nature of TNBC and the lack of newer targeted therapies for the disease.

Interestingly, the team found that radiologists could do better than chance in discriminating breast cancer cases from normal tissue, even when the images of abnormal breast tissue did not directly capture a cancerous lesion or when those images were taken from the contralateral breast (the breast on the other side of the body) of a woman with breast cancer.

For example, breast cancer patients with higher vitamin D levels have fewer hot flashes and other symptoms than women with lower levels.

Among these and other results integrating multiple platforms, it's apparent that Basal subtype tumors more closely resemble ovarian tumors than other breast cancer subtypes.

The National Cancer Institute estimates no more than 10 percent of all breast cancers are due to inherited gene mutations such as BRCA1 or 2 (there are others).

The programme conducts more than 2,000 genetic studies annually to determine mutations in the BRCA1 / 2 genes and in other genes known to be related to breast cancer.

Currently one in eight women in Australia will develop breast cancer and more than 2700 per year will die due to the spread of the cancer to other parts of the body.

The Abramson Cancer Center has more nationally recognized research on recurrent breast cancer — in the basic science labs and in the clinic — than any other center in the coCancer Center has more nationally recognized research on recurrent breast cancer — in the basic science labs and in the clinic — than any other center in the cocancer — in the basic science labs and in the clinic — than any other center in the country.

[2] TNBC accounts for 10 - 15 % of all breast cancer cases and has a higher rate of mortality than other malignancies.

In contrast, more than 70 other common alleles have been associated with breast cancer susceptibility, most of which confer only a mild to moderate increase in risk.

Globally, breast cancer affects more women than any other type of cancer and is the leading cause of cancer - related deaths among women.

The authors showed that MELK expression is higher in high - grade breast cancers (Figure 2B), thus it is not clear whether MELK expression is higher in in BCC because there are more high - grade tumors in the BCC sub-types than the other 4 sub-types in the dataset used for the analysis.

Triple - negative breast cancers represent a challenge for patients and clinicians, with poorer prognosis and fewer treatment options than other breast cancer subtypes.

And women diagnosed with ductal carcinoma in situ — a noninvasive form of breast cancer — who drink more than others seem to have a greater chance of receiving a second diagnosis down the road.

That's the conclusion of a new study that dashes any hope that red wine is less likely than other alcohol - containing drinks to increase breast cancer risk, or might even protect against the disease.

Knowing what to look for can make all the difference in getting diagnosed early, especially since about one in every six women with breast cancer sees her doctor with a symptom other than a lump.

For women having breast cancer in the process of radiation therapy, yoga provides unique benefits other than reducing fatigue.

At the end of the five - year study, the researchers found no overall difference in breast cancer recurrence — even though the women in the intervention group consumed about half of the fat and had a 31 % higher fiber and 54 % higher intake of fruits and vegetables than other study subjects.

Armstrong's photo has received more than 130 comments so far, many of them from other breast cancer patients who said they also noticed unusual dimples before their diagnosis.

After surgery, it was found that those who had been given the flaxseed muffins had slower - growing breast cancer tumors than the others.

The study reported that profoundly blind women had less than half the breast cancer risk of women with normal vision and profoundly blind men had less than half the risk of prostate, lung, colon and other cancers as normally sighted men.