Breast Cancer Medicines

Jenny is a 42 year old mother of three. Being a housewife is quite easy especially when the kids are at school and the husband is at work. The rest of the day is spent cleaning the house and doing the laundry with an hour to spare at the local gym.

After taking a shower, Jenny […]

Breast cancer affects mainly women with one out of nine women encountering the risk of developing breast cancer over her lifetime.
Treatment for breast cancer has advanced with various drugs and procedures being developed and put into clinical use. One of the more common forms of cancer therapy is to undergo chemotherapy treatment. This used to […]

The majority of all breast cancers start in the ducts of the breast. However, the ductal system is not the only area of the breast where cancer can grow. At the inside end of the duct is a lobe. This is referred to as the lobular system, where the milk is produced. […]

Breast cancer is the most common type of cancer diagnosed in women if the relatively less aggressive skin cancer is excluded from counting. Breast cancer accounts for about 32 percent of all cancer diagnosed in women.
Breast cancer is very uncommon in male. In families carrying the breast cancer associated genes, male members may be affected […]

Due to progress in medical and biotechnological studies in the recent years scientists have focused on tumors not only within macroscopic or pharmacological perspectives, but also within molecular and cytogenic ones. Molecular epidemiology, a new area of medical knowledge has been singled out. It is currently oriented at the search for biomedical markers which not […]

One of the biggest and most exciting advances in recent history in the fight against breast cancer is a drug called Herceptin. (Trastuzumab) The drug has shown to be very successful against certain types of advanced breast cancers. Some more recent clinical trials have shown that herceptin may also be successful against […]

Breast cancer can be frightening, but knowledge is power. If you've been vigilant in your personal breast exams and mammograms there may come a time when a lump or suspicious area is found. The first thing that will probably happen is you'll get another mammogram. This time it's called a diagnostic mammogram […]

Inflammatory Breast Cancer, aka IBC, is a specific kind of breast cancer that is characterized by specific changes in the breast. Inflammatory cancers typically have large areas of skin changes or indurations and are characterized on biopsy as having subdermal lymphatic invasion by cancer. Inflammatory breast cancer is often mistaken for infection (mastitis) in its […]

Cancer accounts to a death of 6 million human lives per year. Modern medicine is aging with breath taking advances in cancer care with increasing awareness, preventing, detection, therapy, research and symptom management. Last 15 years has been a revolution. It is likely to fight Cancer out by getting an early detection especially at a […]

Albert Einstein, the Great Man of Science wrote: ?It is theory that decides what we can observe.? If our mind is set (biased by the theory that we have learnt in school) then ?that is all? that we can see ? we can?t see anything beyond what we have learnt or been taught! It […]