Breast Cancer News

The Government of Canada and the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation are investing $5.7 million in support of a national research team investigating breast cancer in young women.

A preliminary study at Massachusetts General Hospital found that specially developed microchips may be able to detect certain types of breast cancer cells in a patient's bloodstream.

A Bradford on Avon fundraising team started pedalling their way towards raising A 9,000 for a woman's cancer challenge at Sainsbury's this weekend.

The Cancer Science Institute of Singapore announced that it has started the first University-based Breast Cancer Cell Bank in the country with the aim of fostering greater understanding of the disease and its potential treatments.

General session speakers include: Virginia Borges , MD, MMSc, director, Cancer Center; Lu Ann Cahn , reporter, WCAU-TV, cancer survivor and author of the inspirational memoir, I Dare Me ; Clifford A. Hudis , MD; Chief, Breast Cancer Medicine Service, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center; Rita Nanda , MD, Associate Director, Breast Medical ... (more)

Using an innovative tool that captures heretofore hidden ways that cells are regulated, scientists at Rockefeller University have identified a protein that makes breast cancer cells more likely to metastasize.

On behalf of the Anne M. Wolf Foundation board, I thank the Wayne County community for their generous support of the fourth annual Anne's Army 5K: Race to Battle Breast Cancer held June 21 on the OARDC campus.

Friends of Janie Young are hoping to raise enough money to get her a new service dog as she fights cancer.

The drug exemestane worked slightly better than the drug tamoxifen at preventing a recurrence of breast cancer in certain premenopausal women, according to a new study.

An expectant mother is examined by a midwife during a home visit in Free Union, Va, in November 2005.

Considered the most common cause of female infertility, polycystic ovary syndrome affects between five to 10 percent of women at reproductive age.

Delegate Nick Rush and his wife, Jennifer, are partnering with the owner of Boot Camp Challenge-New River Valley to announce their third annual fundraising initiative to support breast cancer research.

The reasons for eating a healthy diet are obvious but have you ever thought about the relationship your diet has to cancer? One doctor think there is a strong link and hopes that people change their minds about that link in the next few years.

Morrisville-based Charles & Colvard , which makes diamond-like jewels called moissanite from silicone carbide acquired from Cree , is using a new three-year $10 million credit line from Wells Fargo to roll out a new product geared toward breast cancer survivors.

It's not often that I get to experience a story from its beginning to its end. The exception is the rags-to-riches tale of a pit bull named Sweetie Grace.

Researchers at Roswell Park Cancer Institute have identified a mechanism of breast cancer cells that leads to chemotherapy resistance in inflammatory breast cancer.

HOSPITAL bosses and GPs have pledged to do all they can to re-open the breast cancer clinic at Darlington Memorial Hospital.

Women have many choices when it comes to practicing safe sex. According to data released Thursday by the CDC, 99% of sexually active women have used at least one contraceptive method during their lifetime.

Correspondence: Arul M Chinnaiyan, Tel: +1-734-615-4062; Fax: +1-734-615-4055 E-mail: arul@med.umich.edu Epigenetic modifications such as histone acetylation play a central role in the transcriptional regulation of many oncogenic drivers.

Ninety-four golfers took to the green at the St. Michael's Medical Center recent Golf Outing.