Posts Tagged ‘Breast Cancers’

Cancers Can Vanish Without Treatment, But How?

27th October 2009 by admin 2 Comments

Call it the arrow of cancer. Like the arrow of time, it was supposed to point in one direction. Cancers grew and worsened.

Dana Neely/Corbis

But as a paper in The Journal of the American Medical Association noted last week, data from more than two decades of screening for breast and prostate cancer call that [...]

Lifestyle Factors Increase Risk of Second Breast Cancer

29th September 2009 by admin 1 Comment

Researchers from the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center have reported that obesity, alcohol consumption, and smoking significantly increase the risk of second breast cancers among breast cancer survivors. The details of this study appeared in the Journal of Clinical Oncology early online on September 8, 2009.
Approximately 200,000 women are diagnosed with breast cancer every year [...]

Researchers Struggle to Understand Breast Cancer’s Racial Gap

29th September 2009 by admin No Comments

Breast cancer occurs more often in white women than in black women in the United States, but it kills more black women than white.
This is known as the “racial gap” of breast cancer, a provocative topic for cancer researchers hoping to save lives.
Several studies released in the past year have tried to figure out why [...]