2004 Archives

1. Breast cancer severity score is an innovative system for prognosis

2. Candy Canes, Sugarplums Or Licorice For Christmas? Only One Might Stop Cancer

3. Is breast cancer survival improving? Trends in survival for patients with recurrent breast cancer diagnosed from 1974 through 2000

4. Nomogram predicts breast cancer spread beyond sentinel lymph node

5. Curry Spice Takes Burn Out of Radiation

6. Concern over deodorant chemicals

7. Complementary Therapies and Traditional Oncology

8. Does hormone therapy for the treatment of breast cancer have a detrimental effect on memory and cognition?

9. Breast Cancer Drug, Femara, Dramatically Improves Survival Odds When Taken After Tamoxifen

10. Internet Message Board Use by Patients With Cancer and Their Families

11. Fatigue, Weight Gain, Lethargy and Amenorrhea in Breast Cancer Patients on Chemotherapy: Is Subclinical Hypothyroidism the Culprit?

12. Partial-Breast Irradiation an Unproven Therapy

13. Obesity influences outcome of sentinel lymph node biopsy in early-stage breast cancer

14. Coping and Anxiety in Women Recalled for Additional Diagnostic Procedures Following an Abnormal Screening Mammogram

15. Presentation on websites of possible benefits and harms from screening for breast cancer: cross sectional study

16. Breast Cancer Takes Center Stage-Environmental Health Perspectives

17. Is Male Breast Cancer Similar or Different than Female Breast Cancer?

18. Tamoxifen Used Cautiously for Early Breast Cancer Despite Therapeutic Benefit

19. Copper May Play Role In 'Starving' Cancer To Standstill

20. Study Shows Link Between Antibiotic Use and Increased Risk of Breast Cancer

21. New Tests May Help Determine Breast Cancer Prognosis

22. Sound Slumber May Keep Cancer at Bay

23. NALGENE PLASTIC MAY BE HARMFUL

24. Genes alone raise breast-cancer risk

25. Choices Now Harder in Erasing Cancer's Scars

26. Weight Gain Predicts Breast Cancer Risk, Study Finds

27. Mammograms Can Be More Stressful Than Cancer

28.  Problems Linger After Breast Cancer Treatment

29. Beyond treatment: lifestyle choices after breast cancer to enhance quality of life and survival

30. New Breast Pap Smear Detects Early Cellular Changes; May Prevent Onset of Breast Cancer

31. Avoidance of Adjuvant Radiotherapy in Selected Patients With Invasive Breast Cancer

32. Many patients do not understand terms used in cancer consultations

33. New study confirms conservation surgery is safe for BRCA breast cancers

34. Yoga Helpful to Some Fighting Cancer   

35. Report Highlights Trends in Breast Cancer Incidence Among Ethnicities

36. Vitamin D3 from sunlight may improve the prognosis of breast-, colon- and prostate cancer (Norway)

37. Milk-Duct Breast Cancer Survival Rates Good -Study     

38. New Breast Cancer Guidelines Include Changes to Adjuvant Therapy in Invasive Disease: NCCN

39. Treatment of Ductal Carcinoma in Situ Varies Widely in the United States

40. Mammography Screening Effective for Women with Breast Implants

41. Stages of Grief After Losing a Breast - An Emotional Recovery Article

42. Decreasing Women's Anxieties After Abnormal Mammograms: A Controlled Trial

43. Improved Survival for Women with Recurrent Breast Cancer

44. Cosmetics Companies and Breast Cancer

45. Chemo patients' memory loss is real, studies reveal

46.  The development of interval breast malignancies in patients with BRCA mutations

47.  Scientists Strive for Breast Cancer Vaccine

48. On the Trail of Water Bottle Toxins...Are Hikers and Others Quenching Outdoor Thirst with H2-UH-OH?

49. Should women gene test after breast cancer diagnosis?

50. New Cancer Research Promising

51. Breast Cancer Survivors and Quality of Life-Breast Cancer Survivors Who Remain Disease-Free Have a High Quality of Life

52. Unmarried women say they feel misunderstood in doctors’ offices

53. Breast Cancers Show "Surprising Characteristics" on Magnetic Resonance Imaging

54. Beyond Access: Barriers to Screening Mammography Among Minority Women Include Psychological Factors

55.Biopsy Reduces Lesion Size, Which May Cause Errors in Pathologic Staging: ASBD

56. The development of interval breast malignancies in patients with BRCA mutations

57.Cancer Trial Participants Rarely Told of Results

58. Summary of Herbal and Supplement Interactions with Tamoxifen

59. Why does specialist treatment of breast cancer improve survival? The role of surgical management

60. Aspirin May Protect Against Breast Cancer -Benefit Greatest for Older Women and Certain Breast Cancer Types

61. Widely used anti-nausea drug may interfere with cancer chemotherapy

62. ABSOLUTE NUMBERS BEST FOR DISCUSSING TREATMENT OPTIONS

63. Vitamin E may protect against cisplatin-induced neurotoxicity

64. Breast screening could pull double duty for tracking heart disease

65. Breast Reduction Diminishes Breast Cancer in High-Risk Women

66. Radiation-induced heart disease after Hodgkin's disease and breast cancer treatment: dental implications.

67. Many Don't Get Full Dose of Chemo

68. Mammograms harder to get, report says -Advisors warn of shortage of screening clinics

69. Gene Mutation May Affect Breast Cancer Drug -Study

70. Researchers Seek Clues To Healing Radiation Scars

71. Ductal Carcinoma In Situ, Complexities and Challenges

72. Sentinel lymph node biopsy performed under local anesthesia is feasible  

73. Cancer patients pray, use herbs, but quietly

74. Possible Association Exists Between Biopsy Method and Incidence of Sentinel Node Metastases in Patients with Invasive Breast Cancer

75. Local hyperthermia combined with external irradiation for regional recurrent breast carcinoma

76. Mammogram message unheeded, stats show

77. Treat the Cancer, But Take Care to Protect the Heart, Cancer Cardiologists Warn

78. Delay in conventional breast cancer treatment associated with alternative therapy usage.

79. PATIENTS, PHYSICIANS REACH CONSENUS ON EXPECTATIONS, ROLES

80. Study Shows Link Between Antibiotic Use and Increased Risk of Breast Cancer

81. Fiber Curbs Estrogen in Breast Cancer Patients

82. Pregnancy Could Protect Breast Cancer Survivors-Research Study Shows Surprising Results

83. Study Links Virus to Aggressive Breast Cancers  

84. TREATMENT OF DCIS VARIES WIDELY

85. Super Sprouts Could Help Reduce Cancer Risk

86. Patients' Cells From Tumors, The Immune System Merged For Customized Cancer Therapy

87. Common Antioxidant May Decrease Risk of Breast Cancer

88. Making evidence-based decisions in medicine: (or more importantly) using evidence when the case doesn't quite fit

89. Effect of a Decision Aid on Knowledge and Treatment Decision Making for Breast Cancer Surgery

90. Herbal supplements and surgery: What you need to know

91. Breast-Feeding Cuts Genetic Breast Cancer Risk

92. Overweight? Good Cholesterol May Fight Cancer -Fewer Cases of Breast Cancer in Overweight Women With High HDL Cholesterol Levels

93. Eating Lots of Carbs May Raise Cancer Risk

94. Cancerphobia lawsuits predominate despite disproportion to actual risk of breast cancer

95. More aggressive breast cancer tumors four times more likely in African American women

96. Breast cancer risk doubles if carb intake is high

97. Scientists Find Inflammation-Cancer Link

98. Few U.S. Breast Surgeons Doing Enough Operations to Optimize Outcomes

99. Diagnosis and Management of Ductal Carcinoma In Situ

100. Radiation not for all breast cancer/Doctors say up to 40,000 women could skip treatment

101. Anti-cancer compound in vegetables found to block late-stage breast-cancer cell growth

102. Women with dense breast tissue need both mammography and ultrasonography to detect tumors

103.  Psychological, Behavioral, and Immune Changes After a Psychological Intervention: A Clinical Trial  

104. MRI better at detecting breast cancer in women with BRCA1 or BRCA2 gene mutation

105. Fish Oil Helps Some Cancer Patients with Wasting

106. Supplements May Reduce Some Chemotherapy Side Effects

107. Acupuncture reduces nausea and vomiting, pain after major breast surgery

108. Quick Questionnaire Can ID Tamoxifen Candidates

109. Intensity modulated radiation therapy reduces radiation dose to healthy breast tissue

110. Obese Women With Early-Stage Breast Cancer More Likely To Die Than Women of Normal Weight; Study Compares Outcomes of Women Treated with Lumpectomy   

111. Few Benefit From Breast Cancer Preventative

112. Chemotherapy Is More Effective in Patients with Breast Cancer Not Expressing Steroid Hormone Receptors : A Study of Preoperative Treatment

113. Hold Your Breath, Save Your Heart

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