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develop comprehensive new way to predict breast cancer... method yet to predict a woman’s risk of breast cancer, according to a study by Cancer Research UK published in Genetics in... of women who have different risks of developing breast cancer.
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on Cancer (IARC), GLOBOCAN 2018, lung cancer, breast cancer, colorectal cancer, prostate cancer, liver...
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loss linked to lower breast cancer risk for postmenopausal... weight had a lower risk of developing invasive breast cancer than those who maintained or gained weight. Published early online in... obesity has been strongly related to breast cancer risk, studies examining whether weight loss might reduce postmenopausal... breast cancer risk, weight loss, postmenopausal...
49,794 incident cancer cases (main locations: breast, n = 12,063; prostate, n = 6,745; colon-rectum, n = 5,806). The researchers...
mammography is linked to a reduction in breast cancer mortality, a study... mammography is linked to a subsequent decline in breast cancer mortality. New findings have just been published in the Journal of... of New South Wales in Sydney (Australia) and BreastScreen Aotearoa, Wellington (New Zealand) investigated trends in breast cancer... breast cancer mortality, screening mammography, New...
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is linked to 13 types of cancer including bowel, breast, and pancreatic (Note 2).
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of cancers of the colon, oesophagus, kidney, breast and uterus [3].
"Lifestyle factors such as eating a healthy diet,... colon cancer, oesophageal cancer, kidney cancer, breast cancer, uterine...
colon, rectum, biliary tract system, pancreas, breast, endometrium, ovary, and...
steep rise in national screening programmes for breast, cervical and colorectal... Commissioner for Health and Food Safety, said “Breast, cervical and colorectal cancer claim the lives of around a quarter of a... breast cancer screening, cervical cancer screening, colorectal cancer screening,...
recurring. Research shows, for example, that a breast cancer patient’s risk of recurrence and of dying from the disease can be r...
breastfeeding worldwide could prevent over 800,000 child deaths and 20,000 deaths... Breastfeeding not only has multiple health benefits for children and mothers, but it... 1 in 5 children in high-income countries are breastfed to 12 months, whilst only 1 in 3 children in low and middle-income... breastfeeding, life expectancy, intelligence, breast cancer, ovarian...
oesophagus, liver, colon, rectum and female breast...
has been associated with a lower risk for colon, breast, and endometrial... of the head and neck, rectum, bladder, and breast.
The scientists controlled for factors such as age, sex, smoking status,... activity, colon cancer, breast cancer, endometrial cancer, cancer prevention, cancer...
breast cancer patients, never too late to quit... never too late to quit smoking, a large study of breast cancer survivors has found that those who quit smoking after their diagnosis... study involved more than 20,600 women with breast cancer, and is one of the largest studies of survival outcomes according to... cessation, breast cancer,...
Breast screening programme effective in preventing some invasive... for and treatment of an early form of breast cancer has been found to prevent subsequent invasive cancer, according to... situ (DCIS) is described as a very early form of breast cancer, where cancer cells are present in milk ducts, but have not yet invaded... carcinoma in situ (DCIS), invasive breast cancer, screening...
mammograms may indicate increased risk of breast cancer... result may be at increased risk of developing breast cancer for up to 10 years after the false-positive result, according to a... From the case rID: 21555
“Our finding that breast cancer risk remains elevated up to 10 years after the false-positive result... false-positive result, risk of developing breast...
use of 21-gene assay to spare chemotherapy in breast... yet that a 21 gene assay can identify women with breast cancer who can be spared chemotherapy, reports the New England Journal of... validation of a 21-gene expression assay in breast cancer. New England Journal of Medicine 2015. doi:... score, breast cancer, chemotherapy, 21-gene expression...
method to predict increased risk of non-familial breast... have discovered that apparently healthy breast cells contain genetic aberrations that can be associated with an increased... approximately one out of ten women will develop breast cancer at some point in life. In most cases the disease is sporadic, i.e. it... breast cancer, risk...
with olive oil appears to protect against breast... olive oil in the primary prevention of breast cancer. Results of a randomised clinical trial have been recently published in... credit: Pixabay (pexels.com)
Breast cancer is the second most common cancer type worldwide, with about 1.7 million... diet, olive oil, breast...
hormone could help treat breast... half of all breast cancer patients could one day benefit from having the cheap and... receptor ‘talks to’ the oestrogen receptor in breast cancer cells to change their behaviour, ultimately slowing down tumour... breast cancer,...
effects of various methods of screening for breast... update of the landmark 2002 IARC Handbook on Breast Cancer Screening [2] in light of recent improvements in treatment outcomes for... breast cancer screening, mammography, emerging technologies, clinical breast...
history of breast cancer doesn't mean a poor prognosis for women who develop the... study finds that women who are diagnosed with breast cancer and have a family history of the disease face no worse of a prognosis... Dummer (pexels.com)
About one quarter of breast cancer cases in developed countries are thought to be related to hereditary... breast cancer, family history,...
blood test for early detection of breast cancer... chances of being cured of breast cancer have increased in recent decades, however if the tumour has... used previously gathered material from a breast cancer study which has been underway in Lund since 2002. The material... breast cancer, metastasis, cell-free DNA (cfDNA), circulating tumour DNA...
oestrogen levels could be at greater risk of breast... oestrogen may have a greater risk of developing breast cancer, according to research by an international collaboration including... between oestrogen levels in the blood and male breast cancer has been identified, despite its connection to breast, womb and ovarian... breast cancer, oestrogen levels, cancer...
screening could improve breast cancer... which women are at increased risk of developing breast cancer, a major study of more than 65,000 women has... analysis using genetic screening could guide breast cancer prevention in several ways – for instance by offering high-risk women i... screening, prevention, breast cancer, polygenic risk score, single nucleotide polymorphisms...
Breast cancer risk may be increased in women who have first-degree relatives with a... may increase a woman’s risk of developing breast cancer. That is the conclusion of a new study published early online in CANCER... suggests that the risk of developing breast and prostate cancer is increased among individuals with a family history of... breast cancer risk, first-degree relative, prostate...
health increases risk for postmenopausal breast cancer irrespective of... abnormalities, were at increased risk for breast cancer compared with their metabolically healthy counterparts, according to a... of types of cancer including postmenopausal breast cancer,” said Marc J. Gunter, PhD, associate professor of cancer epidemiology a... breast cancer, insulin resistance, breast cancer...
for example those of the stomach, cervix, and breast, each known to be associated with infections or lifestyle and environmental...
targeting breast cancers produced robust immune... DNA vaccine targeting mammaglobin-A, a breast cancer-associated antigen, was proven safe and found to effectively elicit... an attractive target for immune intervention in breast cancer patients,” said study author William E. Gillanders, MD, professor of s... immune response, breast...
participation in organized programmes for bowel, breast, and cervical cancer screening.
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breast cancer risk decreases rapidly after starting regular physical... walking per week had a lower risk for invasive breast cancer compared with women who exercised less during those four years,... week had a 10 percent decreased risk of invasive breast cancer compared with women who were less active.
Women who undertook this... women, breast cancer risk, physical...
with increased risk of most common type of breast... risk of developing the most common type of breast cancer. That is the finding of an analysis published early online in Cancer... evaluating the relationship between smoking and breast cancer risk among young women have found that smoking is linked with an... breast cancer risk, triple-negative breast cancer, ER-positive breast...
lung (1.8 million cases, 13.0% of the total), breast (1.7 million, 11.9%), and large bowel (1.4 million, 9.7%). The most common...
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risk of a number of cancers, including bowel and breast cancer. Maintain a healthy weight through a balanced diet and regular physical...
with an increased risk of some types of breast... lifestyle factors have an increased risk of breast cancer overall. According to a new Norwegian study [1], this association is... menopausal hormone therapy are risk factors for breast cancer, whereas physical activity is a protective factor for breast cancer.... physical inactivity, menopausal hormone therapy, breast cancer, molecular...
cancer screening (men and women), as well as breast cancer screening and cervical cancer screening (women). Personalised... medical specialists:
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Mammography of breasts (women only) will be performed by a breast... invitations, breast cancer screening, cervical cancer screening, colorectal cancer screening,...
Breast tomosynthesis is not significantly different from standard digital... breast tomosynthesis (DBT) is not significantly different from standard digital... From the case rID: 65325.
Digital breast tomosynthesis is an advancement of mammography, and has the potential to... breast tomosynthesis, digital mammography, population-based breast cancer screening...
of Czech citizens in screening programmes of breast, colorectal, and cervical cancer. The coverage rate of the target population... invitations, breast cancer screening, cervical cancer screening, colorectal cancer screening,...
million new cases in 2012: Marked increase in breast cancers must be... to cancer prevention and control measures for breast and cervical cancers globally.
Global burden rises to 14.1 million new... cancer mortality, global cancer burden, breast cancer, cervical...
find sex hormones and breast cancer link in women under... levels of sex hormones and an increased risk of breast cancer in premenopausal women, according to a study published in The Lancet... the blood of around 760 premenopausal women with breast cancer, and around 1700 without – from seven earlier studies.
They found t... women, risk of breast cancer, oestradiol, oestrone, androstenedione, dehydroepiandrosterone sulphate...
anti-cancer compound shows promise for breast... offer hope for treating the most common type of breast cancer. The results have just been published in Cancer Cell... oestrogen receptor-positive (ER-positive) breast cancers when combined with the breast cancer drug tamoxifen in preclinical... ER-positive breast...
term shift work a risk factor for breast... mix of occupations is associated with increased breast cancer risk. The results have just been published in the journal Occupational... cancers.
Most of these have focused on breast cancer, and some meta-analyses have suggested that women who work night shifts... work, night shifts, breast...
mammograms in young women at increased breast cancer risk may save... that women under the age of 40 at higher risk of breast cancer who went for mammographic screening had their breast cancer detected at... credit: Calbert Warner (pexels.com)
Leading breast cancer research charity Breast Cancer Campaign, has funded the first ever... breast cancer, family history, mammographic...
body’s own immune system’s fight against breast cancer is controlled by genetic ‘fine tuners’, known as microRNAs, according to... CSIRO, CC BY 3.0, Link
Looking at 1,300 breast cancer samples, Cancer Research UK scientists found that the influence of... breast cancer,...
class drugs reduce breast cancer rates by more than a third in women at high... and three similar drugs reduce breast cancer incidence by 38 per cent in women at an increased risk of the disease... study to date scientists calculate that one breast cancer would be prevented for every 42 women who took the drug for five years...
a common drug to prevent the relapse of breast cancer [1]. The key lies in monitoring changes in the proportion of dense... in women who have completed their primary breast cancer treatment. However, no method has been available for assessing which... density, tamoxifen, breast...
find promising new target for aggressive breast... with triple-negative breast cancer are more likely to have high levels of the MET biomarker in their... samples from patients with triple negative breast cancer – a less common but aggressive type of the disease.
They found that o... breast cancer, biomarker,...
outcomes of screening mammography for age, breast density, hormone... the frequency of screening mammography to age, breast density and postmenopausal use of hormone therapy (HT) suggests that woman... guidelines did not consider the influence of breast cancer risk factors beyond age, according to the study background.
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disease risk after breast cancer radiotherapy smaller than previously... time calculated by how much radiotherapy for breast cancer increases the risk of heart disease and the findings can now be used by... been known that radiotherapy reduces the risk of breast cancer returning for many women after it has been removed by surgery. But the... breast cancer, radiotherapy, heart disease...
test reveals women’s response to breast cancer... Breast tumour DNA circulating in the bloodstream could be used to measure how well a... blood samples from 30 women with advanced breast cancer that had spread.
They used three biomarkers – circulating tumour... breast cancer, biomarkers, cancer genomics, personalised cancer...
links cigarette smoking, breast cancer... that smoking is associated with increased breast cancer risk for women who initiate smoking before first birth. The study,... between active cigarette smoking and breast cancer risk remains controversial. Despite about 130 epidemiologic studies and... breast cancer risk, cigarette smoking, invasive breast cancer, American Cancer...
may be effective against more types of breast cancer than previously thought, according to US research... as trastuzumab, is often given to women with breast cancers that test positive for high levels of a protein known as HER2.
But... trastuzumab, breast cancer, HER2-positive breast cancer, HER2-negative breast cancer, adjuvant...
is an enzymatic source of mutation in breast... errors driving the majority of breast cancers may be caused by a hyperactive enzyme called APOBEC3B, according to US... could lead to new ways to diagnose and treat breast cancer, exploiting the root cause of genetic damage - 'DNA editing' by the... breast...
looked specifically at the risk of bowel, lung, breast and prostate cancer, and again found there was no link between any of these... stress, cancer risk, bowel cancer, lung cancer, breast cancer, prostate...
lumpectomy compared with mastectomy for early breast... found that lumpectomy plus radiation for early breast cancer may provide patients with a better chance of survival than mastectomy.... is a good treatment choice for women with early breast cancer; however, over the past 10 years, a growing number of women have been... mastectomy, breast-conserving surgery, survival rates, breast...
gene fault influences breast cancer... influences the chances of some women surviving breast cancer. It also increases the risk of women developing a second breast cancer.... who had the oestrogen-receptor-positive form of breast cancer, were more likely to die from the disease - 62 out of 100 women who... breast cancer, survival rate, gene fault, ER-positive breast...
simple blood test could be used to detect breast... more accurate way to test for the early signs of breast cancer than using mammograms to spot a lump say researchers today (Tuesday),... could improve treatment by detecting whether breast cancer patients are likely to relapse and what drugs their particular type of... test, breast cancer, breast...
women with diabetes at greater risk of breast... are nearly 30 per cent more likely to get breast cancer, according to results of a comprehensive review published in the... studies examining the potential link between breast cancer and diabetes.
These studies involved over 56,000 cases of breast... II diabetes, breast cancer, post-menopausal...
Breast cancer screening programmes: benefits outweigh... major review of breast cancer screening services in Europe, jointly led by researchers at Queen Mary,... in published European studies in terms of breast cancer deaths prevented, and the major harms, in particular, the rates of what... breast cancer screening, benefits,...
highlights potential drug target for one in ten breast... have discovered how a key protein fuels breast cancer growth by boosting numbers of cancer stem cells in tumours that have... published a groundbreaking study showing that breast cancer was not one disease, but ten, each defined by its own unique ‘genetic f... breast cancer, claudin, transforming growth factor...
to X-rays raises risk of breast cancer in young women with BRCA... faults in BRCA genes are more likely to develop breast cancer if they are exposed to chest X-rays before they are 30, according to a... if variations in their DNA increased the risk of breast cancer after exposure to low doses of radiation.
It found that women under... BRCA genes, breast...
active lifestyle helps lower breast cancer... gardening helps to reduce the chance of getting breast cancer, new research shows today... largest ever looking at physical activity and breast cancer – is part of ongoing work by the European Prospective Investigation of C... physical activity, breast cancer...
heart problems with 2 chemo drugs for breast... who have breast cancer and are treated with two chemotherapy drugs may experience more cardiac... more and more women are surviving longer with breast cancer, so it's becoming a chronic disease, said lead author Erin Aiello...
added more than 2,600 papers on eight cancers – breast, prostate, bowel, pancreatic, endometrial, ovarian, bladder and kidney – and i...
risk of recurrence of most common type of breast... risk of recurrence of the most common type of breast cancer despite optimal cancer treatment, according to a new study published... and inflammation that may drive some cases of breast cancer to spread and recur despite treatment.
Women who are obese when they... overweight, breast cancer,...
Breast cancer patients with high density mammograms do not have increased risk of... mammographic breast density, which is a marker of increased risk of developing breast cancer, does... over 9,000 women with a confirmed diagnosis of breast cancer, high mammographic density was not associated with the risk of death... breast density, breast cancer...
babies of breast cancer patients who undergo chemotherapy while pregnant do not appear to be at... Europe who were diagnosed with early-stage breast cancer while pregnant.
197 (48%) of the women underwent chemotherapy during... pregnancy, breast...
compound slows breast cancer in a mouse... in a mouse model with similarities to human breast cancer progression, according to a study published August 2 in the Journal of... breast cancer, phenethyl isothiocyanate, PEITC,...
note’ on breast cancer gene signals risk of disease... molecular 'post-it note' added to a breast cancer gene could flag up the risk that the disease will spread in patients,... were linked to the spread of the disease in breast cancer patients
Methylation is a common cell process that adds methyl... breast cancer, methylation, tumour suppressor...
a range of cancer cell types including sarcoma, breast and prostate.
Lead author Dr Michelle Garrett, team leader in the Cancer...
even mild physical activity, may reduce breast cancer... and before or after menopause – may reduce breast cancer risk, but substantial weight gain may negate these benefits... findings indicate that women can reduce their breast cancer risk by exercising and maintaining their weight.
While studies have... activity, breast cancer...
activity linked to reduced mortality in breast and colon cancer... activity is associated with reduced breast and colon cancer mortality, but there is insufficient evidence on the... (2012). Physical activity, weight control, and breast cancer risk and survival: clinical trial rationale and design considerations... activity, breast cancer, colorectal cancer, mortality...
re-write rule book on breast cancer in landmark global... could revolutionise the way women with breast cancer will be diagnosed and treated in the future, by reclassifying the... predict survival more accurately in women with breast cancer based on these new subtypes, and better tailor treatment to the... breast cancer, genetic fingerprint, personalised...
hormone therapy linked to higher risk for breast... therapy with a higher risk for developing breast cancer... and assistant professor in medicine at the Breast Cancer Oncology Center at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston, Mass.... breast cancer, hormone...
breast cancer uses immune system to... breast cancer (IBC) is the most lethal form of breast cancer. It spreads easily... expression and spreading of inflammatory breast cancer cells in three-dimensional culture: A mechanism mediated by IL-8... breast cancer, metastases, immune system,...
Breast cancer and heart disease may have common... who are at risk for breast cancer may also be at greater risk for heart disease, new research has found... majority of women with hereditary breast and ovarian cancer have a mutated form of the BRCA1 or BRCA2 genes, which... BRCA2, breast cancer, heart disease, heart attack, heart...
drug combination effective in HER2-positive breast... (Herceptin) and docetaxel for HER2-positive breast cancer is improved by adding another 'Herceptin-like' drug called pertuzumab.... advanced, inflammatory, or early HER2-positive breast cancer (NeoSphere): a randomised multicentre, open-label, phase 2 trial Lancet... breast cancer, trastuzumab, docetaxel, pertuzumab, pathological complete...
alcohol consumption and breast... consumption by adolescents may increase breast cancer risk in those with a family history of the... credit: shutterstock.com
Breast cancer patients often wonder what their daughters might do to reduce their... consumption, benign breast disease, breast cancer, teenagers, adolescent...
associated with small increased risk of breast... associated with a small increase in the risk of breast cancer, and consumption in both earlier and later adult life is also... has been associated with an increased risk of breast cancer. However, the effect of low levels of drinking as is common in the... breast cancer, alcohol...
of fat in assessing breast cancer... is known that a high proportion of dense breast tissue, as seen with a mammogram, is associated with a high risk of breast... mammograms of postmenopausal women with breast cancer were compared to controls without cancer. The study used sophisticated... breast cancer, fibroglandular tissue, fat tissue, mammographic...
Breast cancer survival rates... and the drug Herceptin to treat early-stage breast cancer for women with an aggressive form of the disease could help boost... (2011). Adjuvant trastuzumab in HER2-positive breast cancer New England Journal of Medicine DOI:... breast cancer,...
global analysis of breast and cervical cancer estimates 2 million new cases... number of new cases of breast cancer diagnosed worldwide has risen dramatically from about 640 000 in 1980... 2010, most (51%) of the 1.6 million new cases of breast cancer and the majority (76%) of the 425 000 new cases of cervical cancer... breast cancer, cervical cancer, incidence, mortality, developing countries, screening...
molecule found in bacteria stops breast... in bacteria blocks a protein which causes breast cancer to develop and spread, reveals research published in Nature Chemistry... is present in greater amounts in breast cancer cells. It attaches to specific stretches of DNA – switching on genes r... FOXM1, breast...
lives of patients with hormone-sensitive breast... with hormone-sensitive breast cancer who take the drug tamoxifen for five years after breast cancer surgery... are often given to patients who have undergone breast cancer surgery in order to target any cancer cells that may have been missed... receptor positive breast cancer, tamoxifen,...
Breast screening in the Czech Republic: achievements of the first seven years of the... organized breast screening programme has been in operation in the Czech Republic since 2002. A... in over the last decade in the Czech Republic: breast screening, bowel screening and cervical screening.
The population-based... breast screening, coverage, Czech Republic, breast...
has strongest influence on breast cancer hormones in post menopausal... the level of sex hormones that increase breast cancer risk in post menopausal women, according to new research published in... how levels of sex hormones - known to affect breast cancer risk - varied among post menopausal women. Some types of breast cancer... index, postmenopausal women, hormone levels, breast...
outcome for breast cancer patients with other health... breast cancer patients with certain other health problems have higher mortality rates... survival and higher overall death rates among breast cancer patients. In this study, Jennifer L. Patnaik, Ph.D., of the University... breast cancer, comorbidities, mortality rates, survival...
women less likely to survive breast... from deprived areas are less likely to survive breast cancer as they are diagnosed at a later stage which means the best available... credit: shutterstock.com
‘The Second All Breast Cancer Report’ is the first in-depth analysis in the UK to look at how the i... breast cancer, socioeconomic...
Breast cancers found between mammograms more likely to be... Breast cancers that are first detectable in the interval between screening mammograms... associated with mammographic detection of breast cancer in the Ontario Breast Screening Program Journal of the National Cancer... interval, interval cancers, mammography, breast...
digital method for breast cancer... a new tool to use for the prognosis of breast cancer in patients. This new digital tool will help give patients a more... the best treatment strategy for early-stage breast cancer is tumour grade, a score assigned by a pathologist based on how... analysis, breast...
for poor breast cancer management in developing... Breast cancer is on the rise in developing countries and mortality is high. Now, a... countries there is little awareness that breast cancer is treatable, inadequate pathology services for diagnosis and staging,... breast cancer management, low-income countries, middle-income...
future of breast cancer... could be used to prevent breast cancer in women at high risk of the disease in the same way that statins are... than four per cent above average risk of getting breast cancer in the next ten years should be offered preventive measures and closer... breast cancer, density of breast tissue,...
results confirm five years of tamoxifen boosts breast cancer... are urging breast cancer patients to complete their full prescription of tamoxifen, following... years gives the best chance of survival from breast cancer. But this randomised trial - led by researchers based at the Cancer... recurrence, breast...
by certain women as a preventive measure against breast cancer, saves lives and reduces medical costs. That is the conclusion of a new... years who have an increased risk of developing breast cancer.
Research has shown that tamoxifen can protect against breast cancer... prevention, breast...
breast cancer screening not necessarily best for poorer... to raise awareness and encourage more women with breast symptoms to seek and receive timely treatment... credit: shutterstock.com
Globally, breast cancer is the most common female cancer accounting for an estimated 1.4... screening, low- and middle-income countries, breast...
New physical activity guidance can help prevent breast, colon... reduce the risk of developing a NCD, including breast and colon cancers, by undertaking various amounts and intensities of physical...
therapy at menopause may pose breast cancer... menopause is associated with a greater risk of breast cancer compared to starting after a longer gap, according to a study published... or obese.
Many studies have established that breast cancer incidence increases in users of hormonal therapy, in particular among... replacement therapy, menopause, breast...
identify avoidable breast cancer risk... 30 percent of postmenopausal breast cancers could be avoided by more exercise and refraining from hormone... shutterstock.com
Many risk factors for breast cancer are well studied and documented. Thus, scientists are sure by now that... breast cancer, avoidable risk...
screening for women with a family history of breast cancer could save... than 50 years who have a family history of breast cancer a mammogram every year will detect more cancers and could save lives,... with several relatives with breast cancer or with relatives who had breast cancer diagnosed early in life can be... screening, breast...
risk of radiation-induced breast cancer from mammography screening is slight in comparison to the benefit of... MJ, Mainprize JG. Risk of radiation-induced breast cancer from mammographic screening.Radiology 2011. doi:... breast...
lifestyle can reduce breast cancer risk even in women with family... lifestyle can help women reduce their risk of breast cancer even if they have a family history of the disease, it has been claimed... of a new study published online by the journal Breast Cancer Research, many women who have a close relative with breast cancer fear... breast...
of young breast cancer patients could face increased risks of other... and female relatives of women diagnosed with breast cancer before the age of 35 are at an increased risk of other cancers even if... Cancer today (Wednesday) looked at the risks of breast and other cancers for the relatives of young women diagnosed with the... BRCA2, familial breast...
deposits could improve breast cancer... first time that studying calcium deposits in the breast, often detected through screening, could help doctors diagnose breast cancer... the composition of these deposits found in breast tissue and the malignancy of a tumour.
The research used infrared light to... deposits, breast calcifications, breast...
diet during puberty linked to breast cancer risk later in... or obese, may be at a greater risk of developing breast cancer later in life, according to Michigan State University (MSU) researchers...
The findings come from research at MSU's Breast Cancer and the Environment Research Center, established in 2003 and funded... diet, environmental risk factors, breast...
alcohol ‘may increase risk of some types of breast... has confirmed suggestions that certain types of breast cancer are more common among women who regularly drink alcohol... latest analysis had been diagnosed with invasive breast cancer and the researchers looked at a wide range of data on each of... drinking, lobular breast cancer, ductal breast...
binding to receptor linked to breast cancer cell... and may also directly promote the development of breast cancer, according to a study published online August 23 in the Journal of the... acts on cells to promote cancer cell growth. For breast cancer in particular, some large epidemiological studies have suggested that... nicotinic acetylcholine receptor, breast...
made by breast cancer gene... step in understanding the origins of familial breast cancer has been made by two teams of scientists at the University of... understanding, diagnosing and perhaps treating breast cancer.
BRCA2 is known to be involved in repairing damaged DNA, but exactly... familial breast cancer, DNA repair...
associated with aggressive breast... genes that could be associated with aggressive breast tumours. The discovery could result in more reliable prognoses and better... Cancer Research, are based on analyses of breast tumours from 97 female breast cancer patients. Half of these patients died... breast...
breath could be developed to detect lung, breast, bowel and prostate cancers, a team of scientists have discovered... could also identify the type of cancer - lung, breast, bowel or prostate - irrespective of a patient’s age, gender or l...
target may block breast cancer recurrence and boost... called POLQ is linked to an eight-fold risk of breast cancer returning. Developing drugs to block POLQ could increase survival and... patients diagnosed in the early 90s with early breast cancer.
Excessive POLQ was linked to markedly increased risk of cancer... gene, breast...
Younger women also tend to have denser breast tissue, which can mask tumours, reducing their detectability on... detectability, breast cancer, breast...
molecular marker could predict if breast cancer patients need... which could help doctors to decide whether breast cancer patients would benefit from chemotherapy has been identified by a team... out as an independent factor in examining a breast cancer patient’s tumour.
Scientists working on the study found that the m... molecular marker, breast...
link between household cleaning products and breast... products are linked to an increased risk of breast cancer. They appear to show that women who say they used such products in the... not prove a link between cleaning products and breast cancer, and that the findings may have been distorted as a result of patients'... products, breast...
with faulty gene may carry breast cancer... BRCA2 gene have a 1 in 15 chance of developing breast cancer by the time they reach 70, suggests the largest study of its kind,... increases their chances of developing breast cancer, and often at a young age. But it has not been clear whether men are... breast cancer,...
oil may reduce risk of breast... women who did not have a history of breast cancer to complete a 24-page questionnaire about their use of non-vitamin,... oil, omega-3 fatty acids, breast...
drug for inherited breast and ovarian cancers shows promise in early... promising results against inherited forms of breast and ovarian cancer in two small clinical trials led by scientists at the... genetic faults have a greatly increased risk of breast and ovarian cancers, and the mutations are thought to cause about two to five... breast cancer, ovarian...
test could predict DCIS breast cancer... predict which women have an aggressive form of breast cancer in the milk ducts (DCIS) and spare other women from unnecessary... accounts for around 20 per cent of breast cancers picked up by mammography. But DCIS is a highly variable disease -...
sponge drug may extend advanced breast cancer... help to extend the lives of women with advanced breast cancer, UK scientists have found... in patients with locally recurrent or metastatic breast cancer previously treated with an anthracycline and a taxane. Journal of... mesylate, breast...
develop prototype vaccine to prevent breast... first-of-its-kind vaccine to prevent breast cancer has shown overwhelmingly favourable results in animal models, according... with the antigen α-lactalbumin prevents breast cancer tumours from forming in mice, while also inhibiting the growth of... vaccination, breast...
research on hormone link to breast... factor 1 (IGF-1) are more likely to develop breast cancer, according to a Cancer Research UK study published in the Lancet... 3.0, Link)
This hormone has been linked to breast cancer before in smaller studies, but this research – an analysis of the w... growth factor 1, breast...
as many lives saved than overdiagnosed by breast... every woman overdiagnosed by breast screening, two deaths will be prevented, according to a study published in the... months over the risks and harms of screening for breast cancer, the researchers – part funded by Cancer Research UK – set out to unc... breast screening,...
drugs may help prevent breast... osteoporosis – may also help reduce the risk of breast cancer by one third or more according to new research published in the British... – two years or more – reduced their breast cancer risk by almost 40 per cent. The effect was present only in women who... clinical trial, breast...
DNA’ could spotlight breast and bowel... known as ‘junk DNA’, could help diagnose breast and bowel cancer. Their research is published in the journal Genomics... as chimeric transcripts - are more common in breast cancer cells. Five were only present in breast cancer cells while two were... DNA, chimeric transcripts, bowel cancer, breast...
finds isolation and stress may increase breast cancer risk in... and related stress could contribute to human breast cancer susceptibility, according to research using a rat model designed at the... isolation and stress could be a factor in human breast cancer risk, said Martha McClintock, a psychologist at the University of... isolation, stress, breast...
Breast density linked to cancer... Breast density, already related to breast cancer risk, has been found to be an... of cancer coming back in women who have dense breasts.
The study, led by Dr Steven Narod of the Women's College Research Institute... of breast tissue, breast cancer,...
confirms impact of lifestyle on breast cancer... of research into the links between lifestyle and breast cancer risk and concluded that more than two fifths of cases of the disease... 45,000 women in the UK are diagnosed with breast cancer each year, but researchers at the World Cancer Research Fund (WCRF)... breast cancer,...
therapy tamoxifen to reduce the risk of their breast cancer recurring are less likely to develop the most common type of breast... of taking tamoxifen after a first diagnosis of breast cancer "far outweigh any potential risks".
The finding comes from new... oestrogen receptor positive breast cancer,...
Breast screening saves lives, say... experts have emphasised the benefits of breast screening after a study suggested that one in three cancers detected by... have claimed that up to one in three cases of breast cancer detected during routine screening may not threaten a woman's life, and... breast cancer, breast screening, prevention,...
drug may help women with hereditary breast... trial of a new drug designed to treat hereditary breast cancer has achieved promising results, UK scientists have... previously received chemotherapy for advanced breast cancer, and who carried faulty copies of the BRCA1 or 2 genes.
Half of the... breast cancer, PARP inhibitors,...
scientists identify genes involved in spread of breast cancer to... bloodstream. Some advanced cancers such as breast cancer manage to break this barrier and invade the brain years after the... barrier, metastasis, breast...
of two ounces of walnuts every day have lower breast tumour rates than mice fed a normal... University School of Medicine, and her team, breast cancer-prone mice were given either a control diet or one containing the... breast...
model of breast cancer to replace animal... a three-dimensional (3-D) model of human breast cancer in a test-tube which should help to reduce the number of animals used... a condition where cells inside the ducts of the breast have started to become cancerous but have not yet invaded the rest of the... research, three-dimensional model, breast...
hunters’ find two new breast cancer... of the genome that alter a woman's risk of breast cancer, according to a study in Nature Genetics... genetic region they identified increases breast cancer risk by about 12 per cent in women who carry one faulty copy of the... faults, breast...
and white wine have ‘no benefit’ for breast cancer... and white wine have a similar impact on breast cancer risk, according to US scientists... determine the effect of red versus white wine on breast cancer risk.
Previous research has suggested that while overall alcohol... red wine, white wine, breast cancer...
increased the risk of cancers of the breast, liver and rectum. And, in women who also smoked, it increased the risk of... breast cancer, liver cancer, rectal...
Breast cancer rates fall as women abandon... Breast cancer rates among women in their 50s are falling at the same time as the... Research UK statisticians have calculated that breast cancer rates* among women aged 50-54 peaked with 5790 women diagnosed with... replacement therapy, breast...
Breast cancer four times more likely in women with strong family... who have a strong family history of breast cancer are over four times more likely to develop the disease than the general... but have one first-degree relative under 50 with breast cancer and at least one other relative with breast cancer, or three relatives... breast cancer risk, family...
