Archive for the ‘Breast Cancer’ Category
Friday, June 20th, 2008
Jeremy Hughes, Chief Executive of Breakthrough Breast Cancer says: "Today's announcement to review the policy on co-payments in the NHS is welcome news and should provide much needed clarity on this complex issue. "Breakthrough Breast Cancer believes that access to treatments should be based on clinical need and not cost. ...
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Wednesday, June 18th, 2008
Members of the Northeast Ohio Affiliate of Susan G. Komen for the Cure traveled to the nation's capital June 5 to help make the case for more funding for cancer research and access to screening and treatment. During their meetings with Senator Sherrod Brown, and Representatives Dennis Kucinich, Betty Sutton, ...
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Saturday, June 14th, 2008
The Georgia Department of Community Health has launched a $1.2 million initiative that will provide grants to groups offering breast cancer education, screening and treatment to low-income and minority women, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports. The program will provide grants ranging from $25,000 to $50,000 for screening projects and up to ...
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Saturday, June 14th, 2008
The Georgia Department of Community Health has launched a $1.2 million initiative that will give grants to community groups that offer breast cancer education, screening and treatment to low-income and minority women, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports. The initiative will provide grants ranging from $25,000 to $50,000 for screening projects and ...
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Saturday, June 14th, 2008
The Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer notes the publication of the study, DeLellis Henderson et al. 2008, in the journal Contraception, which purports to examine the abortion-breast cancer (ABC) link. [1] "This fraudulent study provides further strong evidence of the continuing, willful misrepresentation by prominent scientists of the well-established link between ...
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Wednesday, June 11th, 2008
Neoprobe Corporation (OTCBB: NEOP), a diversified developer of innovative oncology and cardiovascular surgical and diagnostic products, today announced that a multicenter Phase 3 study of Lymphoseek® has been initiated in patients with either breast cancer or melanoma. The Phase 3 study will evaluate the efficacy of Lymphoseek to identify lymph ...
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Wednesday, June 11th, 2008
The Susan G. Komen National Race for the Cure drew more than 45,500 participants on Saturday in Washington, D.C., to support breast cancer research, education and treatment, the Washington Post reports. According to the Post, participants and supporters raised $4.9 million, up from $4.4 million last year. About 1,600 teams ...
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Wednesday, June 11th, 2008
Missouri residents will be able to check off a box on their income tax forms to contribute money to breast cancer services under a new law signed by Gov. Matt Blunt (R) Thursday, the AP/St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports.Contributions will go to the Friends of the Missouri Women's Council to provide ...
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Wednesday, June 11th, 2008
Siemens Healthcare has established new research laboratories for molecular diagnostics in Cologne, Germany. The focus of the research will be on "breast cancer", a disease that remains the number one cause of death among young women despite the large number of therapies currently available. Almost 40 Siemens employees have been ...
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Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008
Ibandronic acid is an effective treatment option for post-menopausal women with early breast cancer that suffer from low bone mineral density caused by adjuvant anastrozole therapy, according to results from the ARIBON study presented at the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) annual meeting in Chicago. [1] Although anastrozole ...
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Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008
A pioneering new breast cancer research unit set up by leading UK charity Breakthrough Breast Cancer and the University of Edinburgh will be officially opened on Thursday 5 June 2008 by HRH The Prince of Wales (also known as The Duke of Rothesay while travelling in Scotland), the charity's Patron. ...
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Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008
Monogram Biosciences, Inc. (Nasdaq: MGRM) announced that scientific collaborators have presented additional clinical results on HERmark(TM), the company's novel oncology assay, as a means to measure HER2 total protein and homodimer levels and predict response to Herceptin(R) (trastuzumab) in patients with metastatic breast cancer at ...
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Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008
Sen. Charles Grassley's (R-Iowa) request that the Government Accountability Office "launch an inquiry into whether FDA behaved appropriately in granting" accelerated approval of Genentech's breast cancer treatment Avastin "will have a catastrophic effect on America's ability to develop new drugs," Mark Thornton -- former medical officer in FDA's Office of ...
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Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008
A study published in the Medical Journal of Australia has shown that from 2001 to 2003 there was a 40 per cent decrease in the number of Australian women taking hormone replacement therapy (HRT) and a 6.7 per cent reduction in the number of women diagnosed with breast cancer, equivalent ...
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Monday, June 2nd, 2008
Black and Hispanic women are less likely than white women to receive the radiation therapy routinely prescribed following surgery for early breast cancer, according to a study that Dana-Farber Cancer Institute researchers will present at the annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology in Chicago.Although the disparity in ...
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