Breast Cancer Risk Factor

Dense Breast Tissue a Major Breast Cancer Risk Factor

According to an article recently published in the New England Journal of Medicine, women with significantly dense breast tissue as revealed by mammography have a considerably increased risk of developing breast cancer compared to women with less dense breast tissue. Additionally, cancer among women with dense breast tissue is much harder to detect on mammography film than cancer among women with less dense breast tissue.

Breast cancer happens in almost 200,000 women every year in the United States. Screening mammography, an X-ray of the breast, has demonstrated an important reduction in deaths caused by breast cancer.

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Advanced Breast Cancer Treatment

A new discovery will improve advanced breast cancer treatment.

A surprising discovery by Queen’s University researchers that happened when their work took an unexpected turn may help women with advanced breast cancer respond better to conventional drug treatments.

The Queen’s team’s findings, to be published on-line today in the international journal Cancer Research, show that a newly discovered “peptide” molecule (a chain of amino acids smaller than a protein) increases the effectiveness by 350 per cent of drugs used to kill breast cancer cells.

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Breast Cancer Early Stages Treatment

Treatment of Breast Cancer Early Stages

Femara® Improves Cancer-free Survival in Early Breast Cancer

According to the results of a Phase III clinical trial published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, adjuvant (post-surgery) treatment of hormone receptor-positive early breast cancer with the aromatase inhibitor Femara® (letrozole) results in better cancer-free survival than treatment with tamoxifen.

Each year breast cancer is diagnosed in over 200,000 women in the U.S. alone. Many of these breast cancers will be hormone receptor-positive, meaning that they are stimulated to grow by the circulating female hormones estrogen or progesterone.

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Soy and Breast Cancer

Newswise — A compound produced by specially grown soy beans may prove to be successful in fighting the growth of breast and ovarian cancers, says Tulane University cancer researcher Matthew Burow.

Burow tested the compound, known as glyceollin, on mice with ovarian and breast cancer tumors that are stimulated by the hormone estrogen.

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