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Inflammatory Marker May Predict Breast Ca Outcomes
68 days ago
by Dylan
Published: June 03, 2011 Women who have high levels of C-reactive protein (CRP) at the time of breast cancer diagnosis may have worse outcomes, researchers say. Those with the greatest concentrations of the inflammatory marker had significantly reduced overall and disease-free survival and a higher ...
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FDA warns: Thermogram is no mammogram
68 days ago
by Dylan
Published: June 3, 2011 Updated: 9:33 a.m. The controversy over mammography’s effectiveness at finding breast cancer, and whether women under 50 should even get them regularly, has opened the door to alternative detection methods. One trendy innovation is thermography, which uses infrared imaging to ...
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C-reactive Protein Levels Predict Breast Cancer Survival Rates
68 days ago
by Dylan
Article Date: 02 Jun 2011 – 17:00 PDT Levels of C-reactive protein (CRP) are increased in response to acute inflammation, infection and tissue damage. There are also reports that CRP levels are elevated because of cancer. New research published in BioMed Central’s open access journal Breast Cancer R ...
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Drug Halts Growth of Stubborn Breast Cancer Cells
68 days ago
by Dylan
Jun 2, 2011 | 2:32 PM ET The tricky breast cancer cells that scientists say survive through chemotherapy treatments and sprout new cancer growths elsewhere in the body may soon meet their match. A new study shows that these cells, called breast cancer stem cells, rely on a certain molecular pathway ...
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Scientists Testing New Drug for Triple-Negative Breast Cancer
68 days ago
by Dylan
Published June 02, 2011 Scientists will soon begin testing a new drug for its potential to treat triple-negative breast cancer, The Telegraph reported. Researchers at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston recently identified a pool of 15 genes associated with accelerating the growth of this agg ...
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Treatment for aggressive breast cancer a step closer
68 days ago
by Dylan
Thursday, June 2, 2011 PETER CAVE: Basal breast cancer is a particularly aggressive form of the disease. It’s typically found in younger women, and unlike other types of breast cancer there’s no targeted treatment for it, so about all doctors can offer sufferers is chemotherapy. But Australian resea ...
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