breast cancer

Iyengar Yoga May Improve Fatigue in Breast Cancer Survivors

NCCAM Featured Content  Thu, 02/16/2012 - 08:53

Iyengar yoga may help improve fatigue and vigor in breast cancer survivors, according to an NCCAM-funded study published in the journal Cancer.

Data from the National Cancer Institute suggest that fatigue may be a significant issue long into cancer survivorship.


 

Nanotube therapy takes aim at breast cancer stem cells

EurekAlert! - Cancer  Wed, 02/08/2012 - 23:00

(Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center) Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center researchers have again proven that injecting multiwalled carbon nanotubes into tumors and heating them with a quick, 30-second laser treatment can kill them.


 

Some former Komen supporters can't forgive, forget

Headlines from the Associated Press  Sat, 02/04/2012 - 12:58

NEW YORK (AP) -- When Dorothy Twinney first saw a Race for the Cure walk for breast cancer - "a sea of pink" traveling through her hometown of Plymouth, Mich.

- she was so moved she sat in her car and wept....


 

Surprises about Planned Parenthood cancer testing

Headlines from the Associated Press  Fri, 02/03/2012 - 16:17

To many people, breast cancer screening means a mammogram. But for millions of poor women who visit Planned Parenthood, it's usually just a physical exam by the only health professional they may ever see....


 

Surprises about Planned Parenthood cancer testing

Seattle Post-Intelligencer: Health and Fitness  Fri, 02/03/2012 - 16:02

Surprises about Planned Parenthood cancer testing Associated Press


 

Soy isoflavone supplements did not provide breast cancer protect...

EurekAlert! - Cancer  Thu, 02/02/2012 - 23:00

(American Association for Cancer Research) Findings suggest the effects of food may be more complex. Adverse effect observed in younger women.


 

Komen yanks grants to  Planned Parenthood

NYDailyNews.com - Health - NY Daily News  Wed, 02/01/2012 - 12:19

Planned Parenthood is painting a breast cancer foundation as a bunch of pink powder puffs for yanking grants for poor women to receive mammograms.


 

Rate of follow-up surgeries after partial mastectomy varies grea...

EurekAlert! - Cancer  Mon, 01/30/2012 - 23:00

(Van Andel Research Institute) A new study reveals substantial differences -- by both surgeon and institution -- in the rates of follow-up surgeries for women who underwent a partial mastectomy for treatment of breast cancer.


 

Avastin May Help Fight Early Breast Cancer

WebMD Health  Wed, 01/25/2012 - 17:14

medicine bottles

Don't count out the drug Avastin as a breast cancer treatment just yet.

But don't count it in, either.


 

Studies: Avastin may fight early breast cancers

Headlines from the Associated Press  Wed, 01/25/2012 - 16:06

Surprising results from two new studies may reopen debate about the value of Avastin for breast cancer. The drug helped make tumors disappear in certain women with early-stage disease, researchers found....