New breast cancer screening guidelines confuse womens experts disagree | Breast Cancer Screening
New breast cancer screening guidelines confuse womens experts disagree | Breast Cancer Screening The US Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) has issued new breast cancer screening guidelines, which are published in the November 17 issue of the Annals of Internal Medicine. The task force now recommends against routine mammography screening for women before age 50 [...]
Can a Low PH Level Cause Cancer
In the middle of 2007 my yearly mammogram showed an area of abnormal clusters of calcium. The Doctor wanted that area removed from my left breast. He was going to use a procedure that involved me stripping to the waist, climbing a ladder, lying on a table approximately 6 feet in the air, allowing my [...]
New Gene May Provide Breast Cancer Diagnostic Marker
Ann Killary (from the University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center) and colleagues have described a new gene called DEAR1 that is genetically altered by mutation and deletion in breast tumors, and that may provide a new breast cancer prognostic marker.Each year, more than one million women discover that they have breast cancer. Although [...]
Treating Sleep Problems May Improve Pain Management In Patients With Cancer
A study in the April 15 issue of the Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine suggests that sleep problems lead to increased pain and fatigue in cancer patients. The results indicate that interventions aimed at trouble sleeping would be expected to improve both pain and fatigue in this patient population. Results show that more than half [...]
Breast Cancer Risk in Postmenopausal Women With High Insulin Levels
Higher-than-normal levels of insulin place postmenopausal women at increased risk of breast cancer, according to researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University. Their findings suggest that interventions that target insulin and its signaling pathways may decrease breast cancer risk in these women. Breast cancer is the most common cancer among women in [...]
Fighting Aggressive Breast Cancer: UAB Wins $6.4 Million Nonprofit Grant
Researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Comprehensive Cancer Center have been awarded a $6.4 million grant from two national nonprofit groups that are partnering in the fight against an aggressive and difficult-to-treat form of cancer called “triple negative” breast cancer. The grant is from Susan G. Komen for the Cure® and the [...]
When Cancer Cells Can’t Let Go
Like a climber scaling a rock face, a migrating cancer cell has to keep a tight grip on the surface but also let go at the right moment to move ahead. Chan et al. reveal that the focal adhesion kinase (FAK) coordinates these processes to permit forward movement. The study was published online April 13 [...]
