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
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
A front page story in today's Wall Street Journal, by reporter John Carreyrou (john.carreyrou@wsj.com), profiles an uninsured breast cancer patient named Shirley Loewe and her four-year ordeal with the U.S. health care system. Shirley, who had inflammatory breast cancer, a rare, aggressive form, was not diagnosed until she walked into a Texas... Read more
If you haven't yet watched the Livestrong Presidential Cancer Forum, make sure to start from the very beginning, when Lance Armstrong happily points out that his team, along with MSNBC, collected "nearly 1,000 questions" for the Presidential candidates. 1,000 questions? What happened? Is anyone else surprised by how SMALL... Read more
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