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- University Hospital Hradec Kralove – Department of Radiology
- Jablonec nad Nisou Hospital – Department of Breast Radiology
- District Hospital Mlada Boleslav – Department of Diagnostic Radiology – Mammography Centre
- Hospital Nove Mesto na Morave – Department of Radiology
- University Hospital Olomouc – Department of Breast Radiology
- Silesian Hospital in Opava – Department of Radiology
- Hospital Vitkovice, JSC – Department of Diagnostic Radiology
- Thomayer University Hospital – Department of Breast Radiology
- University Hospital Bulovka – Department of Breast Radiology
- Hospital Na Homolce – Department of Diagnostic Radiology
- University Hospital Kralovske Vinohrady – Department of Breast Radiology
- Hospital Sumperk – Department of Diagnostic Radiology
- Regional Medical Association, JSC – Hospital Chomutov – Department of Breast Radiology
- Hospital Pisek – Department of Breast Radiology – Mammography
- Hospital Znojmo – Department of Radiology and Imaging Methods
- Hospital Sokolov – Department of Diagnostic Radiology
- Hospital Blansko – Department of Diagnostic Radiology
- Hospital Uherske Hradiste – Department of Breast Radiology
- Department of Breast Radiology, Krnov
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Czech National Breast Cancer Screening Programme
cancer is the most common cancers affecting women. Every year in the Czech Republic, almost 8,000 new cases of breast cancer and...
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Breast cancer epidemiology
cancer incidence and mortality in women Among all cancers excluding non-melanoma skin cancer...
Breast cancer
to more than 133 cancers per 100,000 women in the Czech population (Figure 1, incidence curve). Each year, there are...
European Society of Breast Imaging (EUSOBI)
has published several information papers for women: Evans A, Trimboli RM, Athanasiou A, Balleyguier C, Baltzer PA, Bick U,...
Association of Czech Breast Radiologists (AMA-CZ)
been established in order to support and implement activities related to diagnosis and treatment of breast disease. In...
Expert Committee on Breast Radiology (KOMD)
Radiological Society Association of Non-Governmental Radiologists (SNAR) Association of Czech Breast Radiologists...
Mammography exam
a mammogram is uncomfortable for some women. Some women find it painful. A mammogram takes only a few moments, though, and...
Number of relevant news: 139
New recommendations published: screening intervals and more
recommendations published: screening intervals and... World Cancer Day, ECIBC releases 17 new recommendations [1] providing now access to a total of 40 recommendations on breast... credit: shutterstock.com The published recommendations address: how often women of different age ranges, with no... Cancer (ECIBC), breast cancer screening, recommen...
Researchers develop comprehensive new way to predict breast cancer risk
with other factors such as weight, age at menopause, alcohol consumption and use of hormone replacement therapy. Although...
Cancer incidence continues to rise: 1 in 5 men, 1 in 6 women
incidence continues to rise: 1 in 5 men, 1 in 6... GLOBOCAN 2018 One in 5 men and one in 6 women worldwide will develop cancer during their lifetime, and...
Breast screening linked to 60 per cent lower risk of breast cancer death in first 10 years
men who take part in breast screening have a significantly greater benefit from... research, using data from Sweden, finds that women who chose to participate in an organised breast cancer screening programme had...
Weight loss linked to lower breast cancer risk for postmenopausal women
loss linked to lower breast cancer risk for postmenopausal... a study of postmenopausal women, participants who lost weight had a lower risk of developing... examining whether weight loss might reduce postmenopausal women’s risk have provided mixed results. To examine the issue, Rowan C... cancer risk, weight loss, postmenopausal...
Eating foods with low nutritional quality ratings linked to cancer risk in large European cohort
European authorities are considering implementing a unique nutrition label as a system to reflect the nutritional quality of...
Screening mammography is linked to a reduction in breast cancer mortality, a study shows
in breast cancer mortality in New Zealand women in order to either corroborate or negate a causal association with service...
Where body fat is carried can predict cancer risk
is the first study comparing adult body measurements in such a standardised way for obesity-related cancers. Using a novel...
Excess weight linked to 8 more cancer types
stomach, liver, gall bladder, pancreas, ovary, meningioma (a type of brain tumour), thyroid cancer and the blood cancer multiple... associated with excess weight were similar for men and women and, when data were available, were consistent across geographic... cancer, pancreatic cancer, ovarian cancer, meningioma, thyroid cancer, multiple myeloma, colon cancer, oesophageal cancer,...
New research confirms obesity link to 11 cancers
49 publications that analysed the obesity measurements (such as body mass index, weight gain, and waist circumference) and 36...
Public health in the EU: encouraging developments in the area of national cancer screening programmes
health in the EU: encouraging developments in the area of national cancer screening... implementation report on the 2003 Council Recommendation on cancer screening, published... focusing our efforts. The Council’s recommendation and the Commission’s quality assurance guidelines have led to most EU c...
World Cancer Day: highlighting physical activity in the global fight against cancer
to their wellbeing either during or after treatment. The ‘We can. I can.’ campaign is in its second year and we hope to build on t...
Increasing breastfeeding worldwide could prevent over 800,000 child deaths and 20,000 deaths from breast cancer every year
is also a strong economic case for investment in promoting breastfeeding. Modelling conducted for the Series estimates...
New review concludes evidence for alcohol causing cancer is strong
shutterstock.com This is a stronger statement than the long-recognised association between alcohol and cancer. An...
Physical activity associated with lower risk of many cancers
level of physical activity that experts recommend. Participants were followed for a median of 11 years. During this time,...
For breast cancer patients, never too late to quit smoking
menting that it’s never too late to quit smoking, a large study of breast... study involved more than 20,600 women with breast cancer, and is one of the largest studies of survival outcomes...
Breast screening programme effective in preventing some invasive cancers
for and treatment of an early form of breast cancer has been found to prevent subsequent... in the UK each year and the main form of treatment is surgery followed by radiotherapy. Ongoing public debate about the harm...
False-positive mammograms may indicate increased risk of breast cancer later
men with a history of a false-positive mammogram result may be at increased risk... the United States, about 67 percent of women ages 40 and older undergo screening mammography every one to two years,...
Prospective study supports use of 21-gene assay to spare chemotherapy in breast cancer
evidence yet that a 21 gene assay can identify women with breast cancer who can be spared chemotherapy, reports the New England... Trial Assigning Individualised Options for Treatment (TAILORx) study. Read the whole article at...
New method to predict increased risk of non-familial breast cancer
Western world, approximately one out of ten women will develop breast cancer at some point in life. In most cases the disease is...
Mediterranean diet supplemented with olive oil appears to protect against breast cancer
diet supplemented with olive oil appears to protect against breast... beneficial effect of a Mediterranean diet supplemented with extra-virgin olive oil in the primary prevention of breast cancer.... and this has been linked to several elements of the ‘Western’ lifestyle although the only clear epidemiological evidence i...
Common hormone could help treat breast cancer
female hormone progesterone added to their treatment, according to Cancer Research UK-funded research published in Nature today... which cause cancer cells to grow. Women whose tumours have progesterone receptors as well are known to have a better...
Benefits of mammography screening outweigh adverse effects for women aged 50–69 years
screening outweigh adverse effects for women aged 50–69 y... Cancer Screening [2] in light of recent improvements in treatment outcomes for late-stage breast cancer and new data on screening...
Family history of breast cancer doesn't mean a poor prognosis for women who develop the disease
cancer doesn't mean a poor prognosis for women who develop the... new large study finds that women who are diagnosed with breast cancer and have a family history of the disease... cancer (POSH) study, which included 2850 women under age 41 years who were diagnosed with breast cancer and treated in the...
A blood test for early detection of breast cancer metastasis
known as cell-free circulating DNA – small fragments of genetic material from different cells which circulate in the blood. It is...
Men with high oestrogen levels could be at greater risk of breast cancer
Men with high oestrogen levels could be at greater risk of breast... Men with naturally high levels of the female hormone oestrogen may have a greater... to breast, womb and ovarian cancers in women. Men with the highest levels of oestrogen were two and a half times more...
Genetic screening could improve breast cancer prevention
improve doctors’ ability to work out which women are at increased risk of developing breast cancer, a major study of more than... ways – for instance by offering high-risk women increased monitoring, personalised advice and preventative therapies. The...
Breast cancer risk may be increased in women who have first-degree relatives with a history of prostate cancer
cancer risk may be increased in women who have first-degree relatives with a history of prostate... School of Medicine in Detroit, studied 78,171 women who enrolled in the Women’s Health Initiative Observational Study between 1993 ...
Poor metabolic health increases risk for postmenopausal breast cancer irrespective of BMI
metabolic health increases risk for postmenopausal breast cancer irrespective of... menopausal women who were metabolically unhealthy, as assessed by insulin... for a number of types of cancer including postmenopausal breast cancer,” said Marc J. Gunter, PhD, associate professor of cancer ... menopausal breast cancer, insulin resistance, breast cancer...
Most types of cancer not due to “bad luck”, says IARC
than either hereditary or external environmental factors.” For many cancers, the authors argue for a greater focus on the ...
Vaccine targeting breast cancers produced robust immune response
to effectively elicit immune responses in women with metastatic breast cancer, according to a study published in Clinical... in patients who have completed standard treatment regimens, such as chemotherapy, surgery, irradiation, to minimise the risk of...
Launch of new European Code Against Cancer
weight and being physically active. It also recommends participation in organized programmes for bowel, breast, and cervical cancer...
Postmenopausal breast cancer risk decreases rapidly after starting regular physical activity
menopausal breast cancer risk decreases rapidly after starting regular physical... menopausal women who in the past four years had undertaken regular physical... with the World Cancer Research Fund recommendations of walking at least 30 minutes daily,” said Agnès Fournier, PhD, a re... menopausal women, breast cancer risk, physical...
Smoking linked with increased risk of most common type of breast cancer
women who smoke and have been smoking a pack a day for a decade or more have a... smoking and breast cancer risk among young women have found that smoking is linked with an increased risk; however, few studies...
IARC warns 'cancer burden growing at an alarming pace'
pace and emphasises the need for urgent implementation of efficient prevention strategies to curb the...
Breast cancer screening
thus enabling earlier intervention and management in the hope to reduce morbidity and mortality from a... type is relatively high, an effective treatment for early stages of this cancer type is available, an affordable test...
Cancer prevention
a demonstrable and direct impact on the development of malignant... consumed at all, limit alcoholic drinks to 2 for men and 1 for women a day. Since the 1997 report, the evidence that...
Number of risky lifestyle factors is associated with an increased risk of some types of breast cancer
men with risky lifestyle factors have an increased risk of breast cancer overall.... studies have shown that alcohol, postmenopausal body mass index (BMI), and menopausal hormone therapy are risk factors... beverages, smoking, physical inactivity, menopausal hormone therapy, breast cancer, molecular...
Personalised invitations of Czech citizens to cancer screening programmes
to participate in colorectal cancer screening (men and women), as well as breast cancer screening and cervical cancer screening... rather specific when it comes to making appointments with medical specialists: Clinical examination of breasts Mammography...
Breast tomosynthesis is not significantly different from standard digital mammography
breast tomosynthesis is an advancement of mammography, and has the potential to overcome limitations of standard...
Invitation to cancer screening is an investment which will pay off in the future
to cancer screening is an investment which will pay off in the... and the Office of Member of the European Parliament Dr. Pavel Poc. The workshop was held under the auspices of Martin Holcát, MD, ... in Prague two days after the official announcement by the Czech Ministry of Health that a project of personalised invitation to...
EUROCARE-5: Survival times of Czech cancer patients are now significantly longer than before
between European countries despite major improvements in cancer diagnosis and treatment during the first decade of the 21st... cancer (women...
Global cancer burden rises to 14.1 million new cases in 2012: Marked increase in breast cancers must be addressed
2012 reveals striking patterns of cancer in women and highlights that priority should be given to cancer prevention and control...
Scientists find sex hormones and breast cancer link in women under 50
find sex hormones and breast cancer link in women under... and an increased risk of breast cancer in premenopausal women, according to a study published in The Lancet Oncology... on hormone levels in the blood of around 760 premenopausal women with breast cancer, and around 1700 without – from seven earlier s... menopausal women, risk of breast cancer, oestradiol, oestrone, androstenedione,...
New anti-cancer compound shows promise for breast cancer
help them to survive chemotherapy and other treatments. “Drs Vaillant and Merino looked at the effect of adding BH3-mimetics to t...
Long term shift work a risk factor for breast cancer
published in the journal Occupational and Environmental Medicine... and some meta-analyses have suggested that women who work night shifts may be at as much as 40-50% higher risk of developing...
Early mammograms in young women at increased breast cancer risk may save lives
mammograms in young women at increased breast cancer risk may save... in the journal Familial Cancer [1] show that women under the age of 40 at higher risk of breast cancer who went for mammographic... ever study into mammographic screening in women under 40 with an increased risk of breast cancer compared to the general...
Genetic ‘fine tuners’ control body’s own attack against cancer
this response. MicroRNAs are short fragments of RNA – a molecule related to DNA – that act as tiny switches inside cells, ...
Tamoxifen class drugs reduce breast cancer rates by more than a third in women at high risk
breast cancer rates by more than a third in women at high... breast cancer incidence by 38 per cent in women at an increased risk of the disease according to a Cancer Research UK study... breast cancer would be prevented for every 42 women who took the drug for five years and followed for a further...
Mammograms reveal response to common cancer drug
which appears white on a mammogram, during treatment. Women who show a pronounced reduction in breast density during tamoxifen... a course of five years to prevent relapse in women who have completed their primary breast cancer treatment. However, no method...
Scientists find promising new target for aggressive breast cancer
men with triple-negative breast cancer are more likely to have high levels of the... disease. They found that over half of these women had high levels of the MET biomarker. The MET protein plays an important role...
Study examines outcomes of screening mammography for age, breast density, hormone therapy
mammography to age, breast density and postmenopausal use of hormone therapy (HT) suggests that woman aged 50 to 74 years who... mammography, rather than the previously recommended mammography every one to two years, be performed for women ages 50 to 74,...
Heart disease risk after breast cancer radiotherapy smaller than previously thought
and in Scandinavia, looked at over 2,000 women treated with radiotherapy in Denmark and Sweden. They found that the risk of...
Blood test reveals women’s response to breast cancer treatment
test reveals women’s response to breast cancer t... how well a woman’s cancer is responding to treatment, according to a new Cancer Research UK study published in the New England... Cambridge took regular blood samples from 30 women with advanced breast cancer that had spread. They used three biomarkers...
Study links cigarette smoking, breast cancer risk
with increased breast cancer risk for women who initiate smoking before first birth. The study, which appears online in... epidemiology, analyzed data from 73,388 women in the American Cancer Society’s Cancer Prevention Study II (CPS-II) Nutrition ...
Lab research suggests more women could benefit from Herceptin
research suggests more women could benefit from... also known as trastuzumab, is often given to women with breast cancers that test positive for high levels of a protein known as...
Study finds no evidence to link work stress to cancer risk
5700 incident cancer events in 116 000 European men and women BMJ DOI:...
1.5 million premature cancer deaths could be prevented per year if targets set to reduce NCDs are met by 2025
must serve to galvanise our efforts in implementing the World Health Organization’s (WHO) ‘25 by 25’ target,” said Dr Christo...
Better survival rates seen with lumpectomy compared with mastectomy for early breast cancer
in the efficacy of breast-conserving treatments even among patients with aggressive, early disease... combined with radiation is a good treatment choice for women with early breast cancer; however, over the past 10 years, a...
The Lancet publishes largest ever study on global burden of disease
death and disability worldwide. Since 1970, men and women worldwide have gained slightly more than ten years of life...
Inherited gene fault influences breast cancer survival
gene fault influences the chances of some women surviving breast cancer. It also increases the risk of women developing a... funded by Cancer Research UK, found that women with the fault, and who had the oestrogen-receptor-positive form of breast...
A simple blood test could be used to detect breast cancer
also hope the blood test could improve treatment by detecting whether breast cancer patients are likely to relapse and what...
Post-menopausal women with diabetes at greater risk of breast cancer
menopausal women with diabetes at greater risk of breast... men with type II diabetes are nearly 30 per cent more likely to get breast cancer,... across four continents and found that post-menopausal women with type II diabetes had a 27 per cent increased risk of breast... II diabetes, breast cancer, post-menopausal...
Breast cancer screening programmes: benefits outweigh harm
results, which are published in a special supplement of The Journal of Medical Screening today (Thursday), show that for every...
Study highlights potential drug target for one in ten breast cancers
raises the prospect that treatments currently being developed to inhibit this key protein – called Transforming G...
Exposure to X-rays raises risk of breast cancer in young women with BRCA faults
X-rays raises risk of breast cancer in young women with BRCA... men with faults in BRCA genes are more likely to develop breast cancer if they are... by Cancer Research UK, looked at almost 2,000 women with BRCA faults in the Netherlands, France and the UK between 2006 and 2009...
An active lifestyle helps lower breast cancer risk
looked at over 8,000 breast cancer cases in women. They found that the group who were the most physically active were 13 per...
More heart problems with 2 chemo drugs for breast cancer
men who have breast cancer and are treated with two chemotherapy drugs may... study is significant because more and more women are surviving longer with breast cancer, so it's becoming a chronic disease,...
World’s largest cancer and lifestyle database revealed
that lead to potentially life-saving recommendations to reduce people’s cancer risk. It is hugely important to our u...
Obese and overweight women face increased risk of recurrence of most common type of breast cancer
and overweight women face increased risk of recurrence of most common type of breast... of breast cancer despite optimal cancer treatment, according to a new study published early online in Cancer [1], a... breast cancer to spread and recur despite treatment. Women who are obese when they are diagnosed with breast cancer have an...
Breast cancer patients with high density mammograms do not have increased risk of death
shutterstock.com In the study of over 9,000 women with a confirmed diagnosis of breast cancer, high mammographic density was not...
Chemotherapy during pregnancy does not appear to increase complications for newborn infants
study examined a group of more than 400 women from across Europe who were diagnosed with early-stage breast cancer while...
Plant-based compound slows breast cancer in a mouse model
isothiocyanate (PEITC) hinders the development of mammary tumors in a mouse model with similarities to human breast cancer... on two diets: a control diet, and a diet supplemented with PEITC for 29 weeks. The researchers performed histopathological...
‘Post-it note’ on breast cancer gene signals risk of disease spreading
stops it from protecting against cancer development. The gene is known to be faulty or missing in a range of cancers including...
‘Master switch’ experimental drug could treat different cancers
switch’ experimental drug could treat different... unique multi-target experimental drug could treat a range of cancer types, according to research published... is exciting research showing that this experimental drug does the job of several drugs all at once, by targeting numerous weak... various cancer types, multi-target experimental...
Exercise, even mild physical activity, may reduce breast cancer risk
– either mild or intense and before or after menopause – may reduce breast cancer risk, but substantial weight gain may negate t... Cancer Society, the findings indicate that women can reduce their breast cancer risk by exercising and maintaining their...
Physical activity linked to reduced mortality in breast and colon cancer patients
credit: shutterstock.com Improvements in cancer treatment and screening have allowed cancer survivors to live...
Scientists re-write rule book on breast cancer in landmark global study
UK scientists could revolutionise the way women with breast cancer will be diagnosed and treated in the future, by... be able to predict survival more accurately in women with breast cancer based on these new subtypes, and better tailor treatment to... cancer, genetic fingerprint, personalised treatmen...
Long-term use of estrogen hormone therapy linked to higher risk for breast cancer
M.P.H., associate physician at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and assistant professor in medicine at the Breast Cancer Oncology C...
Metastatic breast cancer uses immune system to spread
of inflammatory breast cancer cells in three-dimensional culture: A mechanism mediated by IL-8 signaling pathway Cell...
Breast cancer and heart disease may have common roots
men who are at risk for breast cancer may also be at greater risk for heart... credit: shutterstock.com The majority of women with hereditary breast and ovarian cancer have a mutated form of the BRCA1 or...
Triple drug combination effective in HER2-positive breast cancer
have shown that the effect of treating women before surgery with trastuzumab (Herceptin) and docetaxel for HER2-positive... found that adding pertuzumab to a woman's treatment improved the rate at which her cancer completely disappeared by more than...
Adolescent alcohol consumption and breast cancer
Berkey, a biostatistician at Brigham & Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston, led a team that investigated...
Low levels of alcohol consumption associated with small increased risk of breast cancer
Y. Chen, M.D., M.P.H., of Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, and colleagues examined the...
Role of fat in assessing breast cancer risk
shutterstock.com The mammograms of postmenopausal women with breast cancer were compared to controls without cancer. The...
Breast cancer survival rates boost
to treat early-stage breast cancer for women with an aggressive form of the disease could help boost survival rates, a...
First global analysis of breast and cervical cancer estimates 2 million new cases worldwide
but the disease still killed 200 000 women in 2010, according to the first global estimates published in The Lancet... most surprising findings was the sharp rise in women of reproductive age in developing countries who are being diagnosed with and...
Drug prolongs lives of patients with hormone-sensitive breast cancer
men with hormone-sensitive breast cancer who take the drug tamoxifen for five... prescribed the drug. Researchers found that women with hormone-sensitive breast cancer, also known as oestrogen-receptor (ER)...
Breast screening in the Czech Republic: achievements of the first seven years of the organized programme
screening in the Czech Republic: achievements of the first seven years of the organized... the BMC Public Health [1], summarizes the achievements of this preventive... IBA MU In compliance with the recommendation of the Council of the European Union (Note), three organized cancer...
Weight has strongest influence on breast cancer hormones in post menopausal women
influence on breast cancer hormones in post menopausal... that increase breast cancer risk in post menopausal women, according to new research published in the British Journal of... to affect breast cancer risk - varied among post menopausal women. Some types of breast cancer are fuelled by the female sex... mass index, postmenopausal women, hormone levels, breast...
Worse outcome for breast cancer patients with other health problems
comorbidities on overall survival among older women diagnosed with breast cancer Journal of the National Cancer Institute DOI:...
Poorer women less likely to survive breast cancer
women less likely to survive breast... women from deprived areas are less likely to survive breast cancer as they are... in the UK to look at how the impact of treatment and route of diagnosis – either through screening or symptoms presented to a G...
New digital method for breast cancer prognosis
will help give patients a more accurate assessment of how abnormal and aggressive their cancer is and help doctors recommend the... a useful factor for deciding the best treatment strategy for early-stage breast cancer is tumour grade, a score assigned by a...
Reasons for poor breast cancer management in developing countries
for poor breast cancer management in developing... for diagnosis and staging, and poor treatment availability, especially for radiotherapy and drug treatments that are... cancer management, low-income countries, middle-income...
The future of breast cancer prevention
could be used to prevent breast cancer in women at high risk of the disease in the same way that statins are used for heart... UK’s Professor Jack Cuzick - agreed that all women with a greater than four per cent above average risk of getting breast cancer...
Trial results confirm five years of tamoxifen boosts breast cancer survival
the cancer was less likely to come back in women who took the drug for five years, compared to two years... cancer came back in around 40 per cent of the women who took tamoxifen for five years, compared to 46 per cent among those who...
Tamoxifen's preventative role
taken by certain women as a preventive measure against breast cancer, saves lives and reduces medical... compensate for its side effects in post-menopausal women under age 55 years who have an increased risk of developing...
Population-based breast cancer screening not necessarily best for poorer countries
and middle-income countries (LMICs) to implement population-based mammography screening. But according to an article in The... screening programmes in LMICs is less clear. Women in LMICs have a lower risk of breast cancer but tend to be diagnosed at a...
World Cancer Day 2011: New physical activity guidance can help prevent breast, colon cancers
better services for early detection and treatment of cancer... The World Health Organization's new Global Recommendations on Physical Activity for Health [2] advise that people of all ages can...
Hormone therapy at menopause may pose breast cancer risk
therapy at menopause may pose breast cancer... hormone therapy at around the time of menopause is associated with a greater risk of breast cancer compared to starting... this large, prospectively followed cohort of women, those who started hormone therapy five years or more after menopause had... replacement therapy, menopause, breast...
Scientists identify avoidable breast cancer risk factors
30 percent of postmenopausal breast cancers could be avoided by more exercise and refraining from... for breast cancer are well studied and documented. Thus, scientists are sure by now that early first menstrual period, late...
Yearly mammogram screening for women with a family history of breast cancer could save lives
mammogram screening for women with a family history of breast cancer could save... women younger than 50 years who have a family history of breast cancer a mammogram... credit: istockphoto.com Women with several relatives with breast cancer or with relatives who had breast...
Radiation fears should not deter women from mammography screening
fears should not deter women from mammography... Sciences Centre, and professor in the departments of medical biophysics and medical imaging at the University of Toronto. "Our...
Healthy lifestyle can reduce breast cancer risk even in women with family history
can reduce breast cancer risk even in women with family... a healthy lifestyle can help women reduce their risk of breast cancer even if they have a family history of the... by the journal Breast Cancer Research, many women who have a close relative with breast cancer fear their risk for the disease...
Relatives of young breast cancer patients could face increased risks of other cancers
male and female relatives of women diagnosed with breast cancer before the age of 35 are at an increased risk of... and other cancers for the relatives of young women diagnosed with the disease. Scientists studied the 2200 parents and...
Calcium deposits could improve breast cancer diagnosis
a mammogram. This could help many thousands of women avoid the anxiety of having a biopsy and then waiting for the...
High-fat diet during puberty linked to breast cancer risk later in life
- that a high-fat diet may have detrimental effects independent of its effect to cause obesity - could drive new cancer... diet, environmental risk factors, breast...
Drinking alcohol ‘may increase risk of some types of breast cancer’
types of breast cancer are more common among women who regularly drink alcohol... Cancer Research Centre followed 2,944 postmenopausal women, all of whom took part in the wider Women's Health Initiative...
Nicotine binding to receptor linked to breast cancer cell growth
and may also directly promote the development of breast cancer, according to a study published online August 23 in the...
Protein made by breast cancer gene purified
Heyer WD. Human BRCA2 protein promotes RAD51 filament formation on RPA-covered single-stranded DNA. Nature Structural and Molecular...
Poradna Apetýtu: mamografický screening
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Genes associated with aggressive breast cancer
in more reliable prognoses and better treatment strategies for patients... such as tumour properties and response to treatment. Read the whole article at ecancer.org Reference Parris TZ,...
Breath test could help to detect cancer
results could potentially lead to the development of a low cost, easy-to-use, non-invasive and portable test to help diagnose...
Gene target may block breast cancer recurrence and boost survival
may be a very appealing target for drug development. “As POLQ is not switched on by most healthy tissues it is possible that i...
Women in their forties have lower mammographic tumour detectability
men in their forties have lower mammographic tumour... effectiveness of mammographic screening in women in their forties is primarily due to lower detectability instead of faster... and mortality, have typically been poorer in women in their forties than women in their fifties, partly because tumours of...
New molecular marker could predict if breast cancer patients need chemotherapy
number of tools used to assess prognosis in women diagnosed with early stage breast cancer. New markers are urgently needed....
Study does not prove link between household cleaning products and breast cancer
of breast cancer. They appear to show that women who say they used such products in the past are more likely to have breast... pointed out that no link was observed between women who didn't already believe that chemicals increased cancer risk. Read the...
Men with faulty gene may carry breast cancer risk
Men with faulty gene may carry breast cancer... Men who carry a faulty BRCA2 gene have a 1 in 15 chance of developing breast... of a faulty BRCA2 gene in women significantly increases their chances of developing breast cancer, and often... breast cancer, men...
Fish oil may reduce risk of breast cancer
adds to the growing evidence that fish oil supplements may play a role in preventing chronic disease... health sciences division, asked 35,016 postmenopausal women who did not have a history of breast cancer to complete a 24-page...
New drug for inherited breast and ovarian cancers shows promise in early trials
a new type of experimental drug called a PARP inhibitor, has shown promising results against inherited... cancers caused by faulty BRCA1 or BRCA2 genes. Women carrying these inherited genetic faults have a greatly increased risk of...
Cell test could predict DCIS breast cancer recurrence
new test could predict which women have an aggressive form of breast cancer in the milk ducts (DCIS) and spare... from the most aggressive form of the disease. Women whose cells showed these characteristics were 40 per cent more likely to have...
Sea sponge drug may extend advanced breast cancer survival
sea sponge, may help to extend the lives of women with advanced breast cancer, UK scientists have found... study (EMBRACE) of eribulin mesylate versus treatment of physician's choice in patients with locally recurrent or metastatic breast...
New research on hormone link to breast cancer
men who have high blood levels of a hormone called insulin-like growth factor 1... to date – shows that the 20 per cent of women with the highest blood levels of this growth factor were 28 per cent more...
Twice as many lives saved than overdiagnosed by breast screening
had estimated that for every life saved, six women were overdiagnosed. Overdiagnosis describes cancers picked up and treated as a...
Osteoporosis drugs may help prevent breast cancer
from Pixabay Researchers found that the women who used the drug for the longest period – two years or more –...
‘Junk DNA’ could spotlight breast and bowel cancer
potentially damaging effects of these rogue elements, normal cells silence L1s with a chemical ‘off switch’. In cancerous cel...
Study finds isolation and stress may increase breast cancer risk in rats
at the University of Chicago to identify environmental contributions to cancer risk... isolation in the context of breast cancer development after having found that many women living in high-crime neighborhoods must...
Breast density linked to cancer recurrence
is a greater risk of cancer coming back in women who have dense breasts. The study, led by Dr Steven Narod of the Women's...
Study confirms impact of lifestyle on breast cancer risk
of cases of the disease could be prevented if women adopted healthier... incognito... from Pixabay Around 45,000 women in the UK are diagnosed with breast cancer each year, but researchers at the...
Study confirms risks and benefits of long-term tamoxifen treatment
risks and benefits of long-term tamoxifen treatmen... US research has confirmed that women who take the hormone therapy tamoxifen to reduce the risk of their breast... drug that is usually prescribed to women with oestrogen receptor (ER) positive breast cancer. The drug prevents...
Breast screening saves lives, say experts
detected by screening might not need treatmen... threaten a woman's life, and would not need treatment. Some breast cancers grow slowly, lie dormant or even regress - treating...
New drug may help women with hereditary breast cancer
drug may help women with hereditary breast... shutterstock.com The scientists recruited 54 women from the UK, Europe, the US and Australia, all of whom had previously received...
US scientists identify genes involved in spread of breast cancer to brain
the primary tumour has been removed, a phenomenon that has puzzled scientists up until now. The team of scientists at the...
Test-tube model of breast cancer to replace animal experiments
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‘Gene hunters’ find two new breast cancer genes
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One or two drinks a day increase the risk of cancer in women
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Breast cancer rates fall as women abandon HRT
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Breast cancer four times more likely in women with strong family history
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Coronavirus: verified information and recommendations
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