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Recommendations For Early Breast Cancer Screening
24 Jul 2007 at 2:10am
Women need to empower themselves about the benefits and risks of mammography and examine the additional screening tools available today. One current philosophy suggests breast health screening should begin at age 25. Where does this recommendation come from and why is this valid?
New Advances In Early Breast Cancer Detection
24 Jul 2007 at 2:10am
In November 2003, the American Cancer Society stated that breast cancer is the leading cause of death in women between the ages of 40 and 44. In the United States, there are approximately 200,000 new cases of breast cancer and more than 40,000 deaths; making the U.S. one of the countries with th...
My First Thermographic Experience
24 Jul 2007 at 2:10am
I had been a bit nervous all day wondering what my thermogram procedure would entail. Would I need to undress completely? Would I be given one of those paper gowns that opens in the front and barely covers me? Would there be any heat coming out of the camera? I had been avoiding a mammogram a...
Early Detection And Breast Cancer
24 Jul 2007 at 2:10am
It is generally accepted that by the time a cancer is found by mammography or palpated during a clinical breast exam, the cancer has been growing for 8-10 years. What if we could have been alerted to the problem as it was developing, rather than wait till it is large enough to be seen by the nak...
Digital Infrared Thermal Imaging In Medical Therapy
24 Jul 2007 at 2:10am
Digital technology now makes Digital Infrared Thermal Imaging available to all. There now is a completely safe test that can aid in diagnosis, treatment and monitoring with absolutely no risk or radiation exposure.
Lets Start Screening For Breast Health
24 Jul 2007 at 2:10am
In the United States, American women are told to begin annual mammographic screening for breast cancer at the age of 40. Long before we've reached this age, we are advised to perform a monthly breast exam and see our doctors for a clinical breast exam (CBE) annually as well. However, the detect...
Screening For Breast Cancer With No Compression And No Radiation
24 Jul 2007 at 2:10am
Who would have thought that a technology for detecting breast cancer used today actually had its' roots dating back to 480 B.C.? Digital Infrared Thermal Imaging (DITI) is a fairly new technology that represents a practice that was once used by Hippocrates. This technology is based on a technique...
Early Breast Cancer Detection
24 Jul 2007 at 2:10am
Most women are familiar with mammography as our "gold standard" for breast cancer screening. However, there are additional tools available that women can add to their arsenal.

New England Journal of Medicine
NEJM ? Collection Updates for Breast Cancer
The New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) RSS feed ? collection updates for Breast Cancer. NEJM (http://www.nejm.org) is a weekly general medical journal that publishes new medical research findings, review articles, and editorial opinion on a wide variety of topics of importance to biomedical science and clinical practice.

REVIEW ARTICLE: Trastuzumab ? Mechanism of Action and Use in Clinical Practice
by Clifford A. Hudis, M.D.
21 Aug 2008 at 5:00am
Overexpression of human epidermal growth factor receptor type 2 (HER2, also referred to as HER2/neu or ErbB-2), a 185-kD receptor first described more than two decades ago,1 occurs in 20...
PERSPECTIVE: Herceptin and the Heart ? A Molecular Modifier of Cardiac Failure
21 Aug 2008 at 11:00pm
Translation, translation, translation. Around the halls of academic medicine, translation is the mantra of the moment. In the literary world, translation is the process of interpreting an extant body of...
EDITORIAL: Trastuzumab in the Treatment of Breast Cancer
by Gabriel N. Hortobagyi, M.D.
21 Aug 2008 at 8:00pm
Two articles in this issue of the Journal report on the considerable therapeutic benefit of trastuzumab, a monoclonal antibody, in primary breast cancer, as measured by reductions in the rates...
ORIGINAL ARTICLE: Growth Patterns and the Risk of Breast Cancer in Women
by Martin Ahlgren, M.D., Mads Melbye, M.D., Dr.Med.Sci., Jan Wohlfahrt, M.Sc., and Thorkild I. A. Sørensen, M.D., Dr.Med.Sci.
21 Aug 2008 at 2:00pm
Background: Adult height and body-mass index influence the risk of breast cancer in women. Whether these associations reflect growth patterns of the fetus or growth during childhood and adolescence is...
ORIGINAL ARTICLE: Efficacy of MRI and Mammography for Breast-Cancer Screening...
by Mieke Kriege, M.Sc., Cecile T.M. Brekelmans, M.D., Ph.D., Carla Boetes, M.D., Ph.D., Peter E. Besnard, M.D., Ph.D., Harmine M. Zonderland, M.D., Ph.D., Inge Marie Obdeijn, M.D., Radu A. Manoliu, M.D., Ph.D., Theo Kok, M.D., Ph.D., Hans Peterse, M.D., Madeleine M.A. Tilanus-Linthorst, M.D., Sara H. Muller, M.D., Ph.D., Sybren Meijer, M.D., Ph.D., Jan C. Oosterwijk, M.D., Ph.D., Louk V.A.M. Beex, M.D., Ph.D., Rob A.E.M. Tollenaar, M.D., Ph.D., Harry J. de Koning, M.D., Ph.D., Emiel J.T. Rutgers, M.D., Ph.D., and Jan G.M. Klijn, M.D., Ph.D., for the Magnetic Resonance Imaging Screening Study Group
Background: The value of regular surveillance for breast cancer in women with a genetic or familial predisposition to breast cancer is currently unproven. We compared the efficacy of magnetic resonance...
ORIGINAL ARTICLE: A Randomized Trial of Letrozole in Postmenopausal Women aft...
by Paul E. Goss, M.D., Ph.D., James N. Ingle, M.D., Silvana Martino, D.O., Nicholas J. Robert, M.D., Hyman B. Muss, M.D., Martine J. Piccart, M.D., Ph.D., Monica Castiglione, M.D., Dongsheng Tu, Ph.D., Lois E. Shepherd, M.D., Kathleen I. Pritchard, M.D., Robert B. Livingston, M.D., Nancy E. Davidson, M.D., Larry Norton, M.D., Edith A. Perez, M.D., Jeffrey S. Abrams, M.D., Patrick Therasse, M.D., Michael J. Palmer, M.Sc., and Joseph L. Pater, M.D.
21 Aug 2008 at 6:00am
Background: In hormone-dependent breast cancer, five years of postoperative tamoxifen therapy ? but not tamoxifen therapy of longer duration ? prolongs disease-free and overall survival. The aromatase inhibitor letrozole, by...
CLINICAL PRACTICE: Mammographic Screening for Breast Cancer
by Suzanne W. Fletcher, M.D., and Joann G. Elmore, M.D., M.P.H.
A 44-year-old woman who is a new patient has no known current health problems and no family history of breast or ovarian cancer. Eighteen months ago, she had a normal...
IMAGES IN CLINICAL MEDICINE: Effect of Intrapleural Streptokinase on a Locula...
by N.A. Maskell, M.R.C.P. and F.V. Gleeson, F.R.C.R., F.R.C.P.
21 Aug 2008 at 3:00am
A 62-year-old woman with metastatic breast carcinoma presented with shortness of breath due to a left-sided malignant pleural effusion. A catheter placed in the pleural cavity failed to drain more...

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Testosterone unproven as yet for women's sex woes
21 Aug 2008 at 7:26pm
Women should not take testosterone to treat loss of sexual desire until there is good evidence it is safe -- and that it actually works -- a behavioral scientist warns in a new report.
Osteo Drug Stops Bone Loss From Breast Cancer Chemo
21 Aug 2008 at 4:00pm
Zoledronic acid stabilized mineral density in premenopausal women, study finds
Health Tip: Before Your Mammogram
20 Aug 2008 at 4:00pm
How to prepare for the test
Colors Make Surgery More Precise
20 Aug 2008 at 11:15am
Zoledronic Acid Protects Bones of Women Getting Breast Cancer Treatment
20 Aug 2008 at 3:00am
Drug countered effect of endocrine therapy in premenopausal patients, study finds
Persistent depression seen with taxane-based chemo
20 Aug 2008 at 1:30am
Emotional recovery is delayed in patients with breast cancer who receive "taxane-based" chemotherapy, researchers from Ohio State University in Columbus report in the journal Cancer.
Christina Applegate is cancer-free after surgery
19 Aug 2008 at 11:27pm
"Samantha Who?" star Christina Applegate, 36, is free of cancer after having both breasts removed to combat the disease, the actress told a U.S. television news show Tuesday.
Imaging System Lets Doctors 'See' Cancer During Surgery
19 Aug 2008 at 8:00pm
Fluorescent dyes light up diseased tissue on video monitors, helping spare healthy cells

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