breast cancer patients

Studies: Avastin may fight early breast cancers Associated Press

(University of California - Los Angeles Health Sciences) Quality of life in younger patients treated for breast cancer is seriously compromised and these women suffer from severe psychological distress, infertility, premature menopause, a decrease in physical activity and weight gain, according to a study by researchers at UCLA's Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center.

(H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute) Using two cell surface markers found to be highly expressed in breast cancer lymph node metastases, researchers at Moffitt Cancer Center, working with colleagues at other institutions, have developed targeted, fluorescent molecular imaging probes that can noninvasively detect breast cancer lymph node metastases.

The new procedure could spare breast cancer patients invasive and unreliable sentinel lymph node biopsies and surgery-associated negative side effects.

(Women & Infants Hospital) The sabbatical is key to making the novel surgical technique available to breast cancer patients through Women & Infants, which is the first facility in New England using this new approach to breast and cosmetic preservation.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The blockbuster drug Avastin should no longer be used in advanced breast cancer patients because there's no proof that it extends their lives or even provides enough temporary benefit to outweigh its dangerous side effects, the government declared Friday....

FDA revokes approval of Avastin for breast cancer Associated Press

(St. Michael's Hospital) Only seven per cent of female breast cancer patients opt for breast reconstruction surgery.

(Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres) Many studies suggest that hormone-like plant compounds called phytoestrogens have a cancer protective effect.

Scientists of the German Cancer Research Center (Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum, DKFZ) have now been the first to provide evidence that in postmenopausal breast cancer patients these substances also lower the risk of developing metastasis or secondary tumors and dying by up to 40 percent.

(University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center) Women with a deleterious gene mutation are diagnosed with breast cancer almost eight years earlier than relatives of the previous generation who also had the disease and/or ovarian cancer, according to new research from the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center.

(Washington University School of Medicine) High-dose vitamin D relieves joint and muscle pain for many breast cancer patients taking estrogen-lowering drugs, according to a new study from Washington University School of Medicine in St.

Louis.