Breast cancer is in the headlines today, focusing on new changes to the popular National Cancer Institute online breast cancer risk assessment tool to better estimate risk for Black women. The NCI calculator uses such factors as current age, age when first child was born, and family history of breast cancer to estimate the... Read more
The Kimmie Cares dolls were featured today in USA Today. The dolls, which come in several ethnic categories, present a tangible, visual way for children to learn about how cancer treatment can affect a parent's appearance. Each cancer learning doll, which comes with an illustrated book, costs $39.99.
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Check out this gross-out breast cancer study and its icky results -- from today's EurekAlert. File under "environmental causes of breast cancer" and "NASTY." Extracts of catfish caught in polluted waters cause breast cancer cells to multiply (Click on the link to see the full press release) WASHINGTON,... Read more
A widely prescribed chemotherapy drug, Taxol (generic name: paclitaxel), has been found to be ineffective at treating HER-2 negative breast cancer, the most common form of breast cancer; HER-2 positive tumors occur in only about 20 percent of breast cancer cases. Here's the abstract from today's New England Journal of Medicine.... Read more
From the Funky Winkerbean Web site: "For the first time in a comic strip, Funky Winkerbean creator Tom Batiuk has depicted the death of a young wife and mother from the recurrence of breast cancer. Lisa Moore, a major character who is battling breast cancer for a second time, succumbs to the disease on Oct. 4, 2007, leaving behind her... Read more
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