Laura Bush is in Panama to fight breast cancer (AP via Yahoo! News)
Laura Bush is in Panama to promote breast cancer research. Tanger Outlets Raise $1-Million Dollars For Breast Cancer Research (NBC 17 Raleigh)
Tanger Outlet Centers recently completed its 2008 Breast Cancer Awareness campaign raising a record setting $1 million in a month. Program boosts survival in breast cancer patients (The Lantern)
A new study provides the best evidence to date that a psychological intervention program designed for breast cancer patients not only improves their health - it actually increases their chance of survival. Researchers at Ohio State University's Comprehensive Cancer Center found that patients participating in an intervention program reduced their risk of dying of breast cancer by 56 percent ... Researchers find no link between IVF and breast cancer (Guardian Unlimited)
Fertility treatment does not increase a woman's risk of developing breast cancer, according to a study of more than 25,000 women in the Netherlands. The large study will help to reassure patients concerned that the powerful hormone doses that are part of fertility treatment might put them at risk of developing the disease in the future. At the beginning of an IVF treatment cycle, women are ... Laura Bush is in Panama to fight breast cancer (KRON 4 Bay Area)
PANAMA CITY, Panama (AP) - Laura Bush is in Panama to promote breast cancer research. The U.S. first lady arrived Thursday afternoon for a 2-day visit. Laura Bush is in Panama to fight breast cancer (KHQ Spokane)
Associated Press - November 20, 2008 5:23 PM ET PANAMA CITY, Panama (AP) - Laura Bush is in Panama to promote breast cancer research. The U.S. Family History Raises Breast Cancer Risk Despite Absence Of BRCA Mutations, Study Finds (Medical News Today)
Women with a strong family history of breast cancer have a four times greater risk for the disease than women in the general population, even if they do not carry a mutation of the BRCA gene, according to a study presented Monday at the American Association for Cancer Research's annual International Frontiers in Cancer Prevention Research meeting in Washington, D.C., HealthDay/U.S. Breast Cancer Drug Raises Blood Clot Risk, Should Have 'Black Box' Warning, JAMA Study Says (Medical News Today)
Genentech's cancer drug Avastin -- which FDA approved in February for treatment of advanced breast cancer -- increases a patient's risk of developing blood clots in veins, a condition known as venous thromboembolism, or VTE, according to a study published Wednesday in the Journal of the American Medical Association, HealthDay News/U.S. News and World Report reports. According to HealthDay News/U. European patent office restores breast cancer gene patent (AFP via Yahoo! News)
The European Patent Office on Wednesday restored on appeal a controversial patent for a breast cancer gene that had been withdrawn from a US biotech firm, but granting it in a more restricted form than before. Randomized Phase 2 Study Of IMC-A12 For HER2-Expressing Advanced Breast Cancer Commences Patient Enrollment (Medical News Today)
ImClone Systems Incorporated (NASDAQ: IMCL), a global leader in the development and commercialization of novel antibodies to treat cancer, today announced that its disease-directed randomized Phase 2 clinical trial of IMC-A12 in patients with previously treated HER2-expressing locally advanced or metastatic breast cancer has commenced patient enrollment.