Copyright 2008 Medical News Today Latest Breast Cancer News From Medical News Today. http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/sections/breast_cancer/ admin@medicalnewstoday.com (MNT Admin) editors@medicalnewstoday.com (MNT Editors) en-us Thu, 15 May 2008 08:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/107615.php Research from the US suggests that exercising or being physically active is linked to a reduced risk of invasive premenopausal breast cancer, and the reduction is even higher when girls and women start regular physical activity in early adolescence and continue into adulthood. Thu, 15 May 2008 02:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/107445.php Familial Breast Cancer Risk Continues Throughout a Woman's LifeWomen who have a sister diagnosed with breast cancer are at an increased risk of developing the disease throughout their lives. The increased risk is most pronounced in younger women, regardless of the age at which the first sister was diagnosed. Thu, 15 May 2008 00:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/107408.php Adding a screening ultrasound examination to routine mammography reveals more breast cancers than mammography alone, according to results of a major new clinical trial. The trial, however, also found that adding an ultrasound exam also increases the rate of false positive findings and unnecessary biopsies. Thu, 15 May 2008 00:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/107366.php Women are living longer after breast cancer but simply surviving is not enough, Pamela Goldberg, Chief Executive, Breast Cancer Campaign, says.Speaking at the second Breast Cancer Campaign Scientific Conference in London, Pamela Goldberg outlined how earlier diagnosis, new treatments, and increased awareness of symptoms has resulted in breast cancer moving towards becoming a chronic but controllable condition. Wed, 14 May 2008 16:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/107467.php A stellate-ganglion block is a numbing of the star-shaped collection ofnerves in the neck that is thought to affect both temperature and sleepcontrol. A new study published in The Lancet Oncologyreports that breast cancer survivors who are treated with astellate-ganglion block can achieve long-term relief from hot flushesand sleep problems. Wed, 14 May 2008 05:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/107356.php Among women at high risk of developing breast cancer, breast ultrasound combined with mammography may detect more cancers than mammography alone, according to results of a multicenter trial that included UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers.Overall, 40 participants were diagnosed with breast cancer. Of those cases, a dozen lesions were suspicious only on ultrasound and eight were suspicious on both ultrasound and mammography. Wed, 14 May 2008 05:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/107354.php Mothers, here's another reason to encourage your daughters to be physically active: Girls and young women who exercise regularly between the ages of 12 and 35 have a substantially lower risk of breast cancer before menopause compared to those who are less active, new research shows. Wed, 14 May 2008 05:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/107352.php A chemical reaction in genes that control breast cancer provides a molecular clock that could one day help researchers more accurately determine a woman's risk for developing breast cancer and provide a new approach for treatment, UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers have found. Wed, 14 May 2008 04:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/107346.php AviaraDx, Inc. announced the publication of an article describing the discovery, development and validation of a new molecular biomarker, Aviara MGI(SM) (Molecular Grade Index), that improves the accuracy of breast cancer tumor grading for the prediction of distant disease recurrence. Wed, 14 May 2008 04:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/107342.php In women at increased risk for breast cancer, adding a screening ultrasound examination to routine mammography revealed 28 percent more cancers than mammography alone. However, the additional ultrasound exam substantially increased the rates of false positive findings and unnecessary biopsies, according to an American College of Radiology Imaging Network (ACRIN) study published in the May 14, 2008 issue of the Journal of American Medical Association. Wed, 14 May 2008 00:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/107154.php GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), in collaboration with the Breast International Group (BIG), a leading academic breast cancer research network, and one of its member groups, the Spanish Breast Cancer Cooperative Group (SOLTI), announced the start of a global Phase III study that will examine the role of TYKERB(R) in the treatment of early breast cancer. Tue, 13 May 2008 00:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/107150.php A recent study published in the British Journal of SportsMedicine reports that physically active women are 25% lesslikely to develop breastcancer. The researchers, hailing from Canada and Australia, notehowever that some groups have a greater likelihood of seeing preventivebenefits than others.A woman's level of protectiveness against breast cancer is affected byseveral factors. Mon, 12 May 2008 06:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/107077.php Cancer researchers and physicians have warned of the link between unprotected sun exposure and the development of skin cancer for decades, but experts from Yale Cancer Center warn that recent publicity about a new study linking a decreased risk of breast cancer to increased levels of vitamin D may be confusing. A recent study, published in the Breast Journal, evaluated the incidence of breast cancer in 107 countries. Mon, 12 May 2008 03:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/107027.php Baltimore: The Baltimore Examiner on Tuesday examined how Mercy Medical Center in Baltimore has recruited a top surgeon from Connecticut to specifically focus on breast cancer in black women. Dalliah Mashon Black, a former assistant professor of surgery at the Fri, 09 May 2008 04:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/106929.php A tiny modification called methylation on estrogen receptors prolongs the life of these growth-driving molecules in breast cancer cells, according to research by scientists at Emory University's Winship Cancer Institute.The results are published in the May 9, 2008 issue of the journal Molecular Cell.Most breast cancers contain estrogen receptors, which enable them to grow in the presence of the hormone estrogen. Fri, 09 May 2008 03:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/106918.php Radiologists can, with confidence, recommend a six-month follow-up diagnostic mammogram rather than an immediate biopsy for patients with "probably benign" breast lesions, a new study emphasizes.The study found that six-month short-interval follow-up examinations had an 83% sensitivity, which is similar to the sensitivity of other diagnostic mammograms, said Erin J. Aiello Bowles, MPH, lead author of the study from the Group Health Center for Health Studies. Thu, 08 May 2008 06:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/106799.php A new approach to estimating tumour growth based on breast screening results from almost 400,000 women is published today BioMed Central's open access journal, Breast Cancer Research. This new model can also estimate the proportion of breast cancers which are detected at screening (screen test sensitivity). It provides a new approach to simultaneously estimating the growth rate of breast cancer and the ability of mammography screening to detect tumours. Wed, 07 May 2008 00:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/106539.php Breastcancer patients can receive radiotherapy in a lower overall dose, givenin fewer, larger administrations, while maintaining similar tumorcontrol and creating fewer adverse side effects than current therapy.These conclusions come from the United Kingdom's Standardisation ofBreast Radiotherapy Trials A and B (START A and B), and were releasedon March 19, 2008 in Lancet Oncology and TheLancet respectively. Tue, 06 May 2008 12:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/106390.php Native Hawaiians, Maoris and Polynesians have higher rates of breast, stomach, cervical and lung cancer than whites, according to a study published in the May issue of The Lancet Oncology, the Honolulu Advertiser reports. Tue, 06 May 2008 06:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/106462.php The University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute (UPCI) has announced the establishment of the Frieda G. and Saul F. Shapira BRCA Cancer Research Program. BRCA 1 and 2 are two genes that, when mutated, dramatically increase the risk of breast, prostate, ovarian and pancreatic cancers."I am excited about the addition of this research program to UPCI," said Ronald Herberman, M.D., director of UPCI and the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) Cancer Centers. Tue, 06 May 2008 05:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/106468.php When a form of cancer that begins in the milk ducts of the breast invades neighboring tissue to spread to other parts of the body, the cause lies not in the tumor cells themselves but in a group of abnormal surrounding cells that cause the walls of the duct to deteriorate like a rusty pipe, according to a new study led by Dana-Farber Cancer Institute researchers. Tue, 06 May 2008 05:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/106447.php Breast cancer patients who have a prior history of mood and anxiety disorders are at a much higher risk of experiencing posttraumatic stress disorder following their diagnosis, new research suggests.A study of 74 breast cancer patients at the Ohio State University Medical Center found that 16 percent of them (12 women) suffered from PTSD 18 months after diagnosis. Tue, 06 May 2008 04:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/106432.php Scientists have made a significant discovery that clarifies a previously poorly understood key event in the progression of breast cancer. The research, published by Cell Press in the May issue of the journal Cancer Cell, highlights the importance of the microenvironment in regulating breast tumor progression and suggests that it may be highly beneficial to consider therapies that do not focus solely on the tumor cells but are also targeted to the surrounding tissues. Mon, 05 May 2008 04:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/106296.php A preliminary analysis of ongoing research suggests that high-risk women with breast cancer who do not have a BRCA1/2 mutation may face a greater chance for developing a second breast cancer than previously thought. Mon, 05 May 2008 02:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/106252.php Sunand Prasad, President of RIBA and Sarah Waller, Director of the Kings Fund's Enhancing Healthcare Environments Programme presented the British Holistic Medical Association (BHMA) Nutri Centre Good Practice Awards on 18th April at the University of Westminster. The competition was for buildings that reflect the ways architecture and interior design can support patients and staff in delivering holistic healthcare.