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Washington, Mar 20 (ANI): Rare mutations in the ataxia telangiectasia mutated (ATM) gene, combined with radiation exposure, might put a woman more at risk of developing a second cancer in the opposite breast, according to a study.
Breast cancer survivors are at increased risk of developing a second cancer in the other, or contralateral breast, compared [...]

Washington, March 17 (ANI): Scientists at the University of California, San Francisco researchers have found that a key cellular defect that disturbs the production of proteins in human cells can lead to cancer susceptibility.
They also discovered that a new generation of inhibitory drugs offers promise in correcting this defect.
According to researchers, their finding has broad [...]

London, Mar 17 (ANI): A safe, non-surgical cure for breast cancer has been offered in the form of a method that includes freezing tumors with streams of super-cold gas, say researchers.
The “ice-ball” created around a tumour by the jabs not only kills it off but also cuts the recurrence risk, reports The Daily Express.
In a [...]

London, March 15 (ANI): Scientists have identified a potential target for the treatment of breast cancer.
They have discovered a protein, which could stop cancer tumours from growing and spreading.
Professor Reuven Agami, of the Netherlands Cancer Institute in Amsterdam, found that the protein, known as BRD7, activates an anti-cancer gene, P53, which is already known to [...]

Cancer survivor Kristyn Dawe is giving a message of hope as she ends five years of fighting her breast cancer.
The Mount Gambier mother is having her final medical check-up in Adelaide, then leading a walk of cancer survivors this weekend.
She is part of the Relay For Life event at Mount Gambier, which raises money for [...]

London, March 10 (ANI): British women have donated more than a ton of bras in the first year of Hertsmere Borough Council’s bra recycling scheme.
Approximately 17,913 bras weighing just over one ton have been collected in special pink recycling bins, which can now be reused by women in poorer countries.
The Hertfordshire authority has also donated [...]

WASHINGTON: The security breach and social flap that occured during Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s state dinner banquet at the White House has belatedly claimed a victim. White House social secretary Desiree Rogers, a close friend of the Obamas and briefly the impresario of the capital’s partying elite, is resigning from her job.
Rogers said she is [...]

Washington, Mar 5 (ANI): Acupuncture could be an effective therapy for joint pain and stiffness in breast cancer patients who are being treated with commonly used hormonal therapies, says a new study.
Joint pain and stiffness are common side effects of aromatase inhibitor therapy, in which the synthesis of estrogen is blocked.
Researchers at the Herbert Irving [...]

Helping to Raise Awareness, Dialysis Provider Launches New Online Resource
DENVER–(Business Wire)–
DaVita Inc. (NYSE:DVA), a leading provider of kidney care services for those
diagnosed with chronic kidney disease (CKD), today announced the launch of
YourKidneys.com to kick off efforts to raise awareness and education during
National Kidney Month and World Kidney Day on March 11.
“DaVita is more than [...]

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Cancer is a term used for diseases in which abnormal cells divide without control and are able to invade other tissues. Cancer cells can [...]

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Stefanie Spielman,42, wife of former OSU and NFL great Chris Spielman, has lost the cancer battle she fought for more than a decade,died today of breast cancer.
Her advocacy for more than a decade has raised [...]

Washington, September 16 (ANI): Three drugs have been found to cut women’s chances of contracting breast cancer, but each of them has distinct potential harms of its own, says a report.

Issued by HHS’ Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, the report reveals that the three drugs are tamoxifen, raloxifene, and tibolone.

The comparative effectiveness [...]

London, Sept 16 (ANI): A promising pill may be able to treat more types of cancer than first thought, according to researchers.

The wonder pill can tackle five other forms of the disease – prostate, skin, ovarian, bowel and womb cancer, say scientists.

As per lab tests, the drug targets cancer cells while leaving healthy cells relatively [...]

Washington, Sept 15 (ANI): A popular diabetes drug called metformin has been found to be effective in fighting breast cancer.

The findings of the study from Harvard Medical School showed that metformin, along with conventional chemotherapy, shows promise for treating and delaying recurrence of breast cancer.

“We have found a compound selective for cancer stem cells,” [...]

London, Sept 14 (ANI): Having a second child within a year of the first birth can increase a woman’s risk of developing breast cancer, finds a new study.

The research, involving 30,000 women each of whom had produced five or more children, has shown that those with a gap of less than 12 month were 5.2 [...]

Washington, Sept 12 (ANI): Scientists from University of Michigan have developed a new method to monitor early sign of oxidative stress that triggers cancer spread.

Lead researcher Kate Carroll suggests that being able to monitor a marker of oxidative stress that is associated with the activation of tumor cell growth pathways, particularly at an early stage, [...]

Washington, Sep 9 (ANI): An over-expressed protein can convert active but non-invasive breast cancer into a different cell type, and thereby turn it into invasive breast cancer, according to scientists at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center.

The researchers say that overexpression of the protein 14-3-3? (zeta) launches a molecular cascade that removes [...]

Washington, Sept 9 (ANI): Obesity, alcohol use and smoking significantly increase the risk of second breast cancer among breast cancer survivors, says a new study.

The study by researchers at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center has been published online Sept. 8 in the Journal of Clinical Oncology.

“We found that obese women had a 50 percent increased [...]

Washington, Sep 8 (ANI): Doctors at Toronto Western Hospital have come up with a new minimally invasive, outpatient spine surgical procedure for treating cancer that has spread to the spine.

It is believed that almost 40-50 percent of metastic cancers end up in the spine and the most common primary cancers to spread to the bones [...]

Washington, September 2 (ANI): Johns Hopkins engineers have come up with a new computational method that can help scientists to sift through hundreds of genetic mutations to highlight the DNA changes that are most likely to promote cancer.

The computational method is called CHASM, short for Cancer-specific High-throughput Annotation of Somatic Mutations.

According to its inventors, the [...]