Category: Breast Cancer

In a study of the maternity records of more than 6,000 women, David J.P. Barker, M.D., Ph.D., and Kent Thornburg, Ph.D., of Oregon Health & Science University discovered a strong correlation between the size and shape of a woman’s hips and her daughter’s risk of breast cancer. Wide, round hips, the researchers postulated, represent markers of high sex hormone concentrations in the mother, which increase her daughter’s vulnerability to breast cancer.

A new study finds that white women more frequently take more of the life-prolonging supplemental therapies used to treat breast cancer than African-American women.African-Americans whose cancer had spread to the lymph nodes were less likely to have adjuvant cancer therapy than white women, the study showed. Adjuvant therapy is treatment given to kill remaining cancer cells, in addition to the primary therapy.

A new study finds that white women more frequently take more of the life-prolonging supplemental therapies used to treat breast cancer than African-American women.African-Americans whose cancer had spread to the lymph nodes were less likely to have adjuvant cancer therapy than white women, the study showed. Adjuvant therapy is treatment given to kill remaining cancer cells, in addition to the primary therapy.

Women diagnosed with HER-2 positive Stage III or Stage IV breast cancer are eligible to participate in a clinical trial investigating early detection of brain metastases from advanced breast cancer through education and screening. The trial will take place on Friday, October 26th, from 1 to 9 p.m. and Saturday, October 27th, from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. The location is the Neurologic and Orthopedic Institute of Chicago, 4501 N. Winchester, Chicago:

People from all over the country are being urged to join in October’s breast cancer awareness month by holding events in their communities to raise awareness and money for the cancer information charity Cancerbackup. There are a number of ways that you could take part including: - Big Pink Cake Sales - baking and selling cakes with pink icing for £1 a slice.

New Zealanders have only one more week to register for the first national conference for those affected by breast cancer. Final preparations are now underway for the conference, hosted by the Breast Cancer Network (NZ) in Rotorua in October starting on the 26th of this month. The three day talk-fest will open with internationally acclaimed breast surgeon, breast cancer researcher and women’s health advocate, Dr Susan Love, as its keynote speaker.

As National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, October has been a key time to recognize the strides made in breast cancer prevention, detection and treatment, and to press forward in the battle against the disease.The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has recognized the University of Alabama at Birmingham’s (UAB) commitment to cancer research by renewing a major grant to support groundbreaking breast cancer science and discovery.

Researchers in a multicenter international study have identified a new gene that, if mutated, may increase a woman’s risk of breast cancer by more than a third.Further, the researchers found that the gene, HMMR, interacts with the well-known breast cancer gene BRCA1. Alternations in either gene cause genetic instability and interfere with cell division, which could be a path to breast cancer developing.

X Factor’s Simon Cowell, shows his soft side this month by encouraging family, friends and colleagues of breast cancer sufferers to support the charity Against Breast Cancer, during Breast Cancer Awareness Month this October. Simon is backing Against Breast Cancer whose ‘1 in 9′ Campaign encourages people to do away with traditional greeting cards and replace them with Charity Greetings that help raise money to fight breast cancer.

Cancer is a time for celebration. But cancer can also have long-term affects on health and well-being, and women should be aware of the challenges that may follow treatment. ‘People react differently to finishing treatment,’ says Agustin Garcia, M.D., oncologist at the USC/Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center and at the Keck School of Medicine of USC.