Breast Cancer Symptoms And Diagnosis

Monday, June 29th, 2009

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 […]

Tumor Markers

Friday, February 20th, 2009

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 […]

Breast Cancer - Herceptin and HER2

Wednesday, January 28th, 2009

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 […]

What To Expect When You Suspect Breast Cancer

Wednesday, July 30th, 2008

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

Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008

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 […]

Breast Cancer Cause, Control And Cure For The Benefit Of Humankind

Sunday, March 30th, 2008

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 […]

Treatments May Fuel Cancer's Spread?

Saturday, March 29th, 2008

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 […]

Learn How You Can Save Your Life by Preventing Breast Cancer

Saturday, March 29th, 2008

Breast cancer is the most common cancer among women, after nonmelanoma skin cancer. Over the past 50 years, the number of women diagnosed with the disease has increased each year. Today, approximately 1 in almost every 8 women (13.4%) will develop breast cancer in her lifetime. Breast cancer is the second-leading cause of cancer death […]

What You Should Know About Breast Cancer

Saturday, March 29th, 2008

Breast cancer is the most common malignancy in women and the second leading cause of cancer death, exceeded only by lung cancer in 1985. One woman in eight who lives to age 85 will develop breast cancer at some time during her life.

At present there are over 2 million women living in the United […]

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