Recent Longevity News for the seven days ending 5/21/08.  You should consult your doctor if you are taking any medications.

Plant Flavonoid In Celery And Green Peppers Found To Reduce Inflammatory Response In The Brain - Science Daily, 5/20/08 - "The new study looked at luteolin (LOO-tee-OH-lin), a plant flavonoid known to impede the inflammatory response in several types of cells outside the central nervous system ... Those cells that were also exposed to luteolin showed a significantly diminished inflammatory response. Jang showed that luteolin was shutting down production of a key cytokine in the inflammatory pathway, interleukin-6 (IL-6). The effects of luteolin exposure were dramatic, resulting in as much as a 90 percent drop in IL-6 production in the LPS-treated cells ... Inflammatory cytokines such as interleukin-6 are very well known to inhibit certain types of learning and memory that are under the control of the hippocampus, and the hippocampus is also very vulnerable to the insults of aging ... If you had the potential to decrease the production of inflammatory cytokines in the brain you could potentially limit the cognitive deficits that result" - See luteolin products at iHerb.  Related study in last week's newsletter:

• Plants' Flavonoids Have Beneficial Effect On Alzheimer's Disease, Study In Mice Suggests - Science Daily, 5/7/08 - "Researchers administered molecules called flavonoids, which are found in certain fruits and vegetables, to a mouse model genetically programmed to develop Alzheimer's disease. Using two of these molecules, luteolin and diosmin, they were able to reduce the levels of a protein called amyloid-beta, which forms the sticky deposits that build up in the brains of patients with Alzheimer's" - See bioflavonoids at Amazon.com.

Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme Inhibitors, Angiotensin Receptor Blockers, or Both for Patients With Proteinuria? A Best Evidence Review - Medscape, 5/20/08 - "Most significantly, the addition of ACEIs to ARBs reduced proteinuria to a greater degree than ARBs alone (ratio of means 0.76 at 1 to 4 months and 0.75 at 5 to 12 months). Combination therapy was also superior to treatment with ACEIs alone ... The 2 important conclusions that can be drawn from this meta-analysis are that ARBs are not superior to ACEIs in improving proteinuria, and that the combination of these 2 treatments appears superior in this outcome compared with either treatment alone ... Two of the biggest safety concerns regarding the combination therapy include the risks for hyperkalemia and acute worsening of renal function. A review of the literature, however, suggests that these risks may not be significantly worse with combination treatment vs monotherapy"

Trends Of Vitamin B6 Status In US Population Sample Identified - Science Daily, 5/20/08 - "Across the study population, we noticed participants with inadequate vitamin B6 status even though they reported consuming more than the Recommended Daily Allowance of vitamin B6, which is less than 2 milligrams per day ... Three quarters of the women who reported using oral contraceptives, but not vitamin B6 supplements, were vitamin B6 deficient"

Glycemic Stability May Be Important Key To Recovery From Critical Illness - Science Daily, 5/20/08 - "We found that patients with wide fluctuation were significantly more likely to die in the intensive care unit and the hospital than those who experience low glycemic variability"

What Else May Probiotics Do In Adults? - Science Daily, 5/20/08 - "It was found that probiotics have an anti-inflammatory potential seen as a decrease in serum CRP levels and as a reduction in bacteria-induced production of proinflammatory cytokines in peripheral blood mononuclear cells"

Aggressive Vitamin D Treatment for Osteoporosis - Medscape, 5/19/08 - "Singh called the findings "alarming" and said that although many physicians believe vitamin D deficiency is not a problem, with 41% of study patients found to have a vitamin D level of less than 30 ng/mL, "most likely that is not true," he said" - See vitamin D at Amazon.com.

Supplement Your Knowledge of Vitamin D - WebMD, 5/19/08 - "That's not enough, Boston University vitamin D expert Michael Holick, MD, PhD, tells WebMD. Holick recommends a dose of 1,000 IU a day of vitamin D for both infants and adults -- unless they're getting plenty of safe sun exposure ... The Vitamin D Council recommends that healthy adults take 2,000 IU of vitamin D daily -- more if they get little or no sun exposure ... some recent studies suggest that healthy adults can tolerate more than 10,000 IU of vitamin D per day. John Jacob Cannell, MD, executive director of The Vitamin D Council, notes that the skin makes 10,000 IU of vitamin D after 30 minutes of full-body sun exposure. He suggests that 10,000 IU of vitamin D is not toxic"

Marijuana Users Have Increased apoC3, Triglycerides - Medscape, 5/19/08 - "Heavy, chronic use of marijuana causes increased levels of apolipoprotein C3 (apoC3), which in turn results in a major increase in triglyceride levels"

Finasteride May Help Preventing Prostate Cancer, Study Shows - Science Daily, 5/18/08 - "in addition to a 25 to 30 percent reduction in prostate cancer development overall in men taking finasteride, there was no evidence that the drug increased the rate of aggressive tumors and likely decreased their rate by 27 percent" - See finasteride or dutasteride at OffshoreRx1.com.  I feel that dutasteride is better and have been taking that for prostate cancer prevention and hair loss.  See:

• Diet And Medications May Assist Prevention Of Prostate Cancer - Science Daily, 9/24/07 - "dutasteride, has reduced by 50 percent the number of cancerous biopsies among men with benign prostatic hypertrophy ... In one study of selenium, the incidence of prostate cancer was reduced by 49 percent over ten years ... Data already suggests novel uses of statins, commonly prescribed cholesterol-lowering agents, and insulin modulating drugs, such as metformin or the glitazones"
• Treatment Found To Reverse Hair Loss - Science Daily, 6/11/07 - "one of each pair of twins was given 0.5 mg/day of the medication, the other receiving a placebo ... After both 6 and 12-month intervals, hair loss was found to not only have been halted in twins using dutasteride, but hair growth was actively improved"
• The importance of dual 5alpha-reductase inhibition in the treatment of male pattern hair loss: results of a randomized placebo-controlled study of dutasteride versus finasteride - J Am Acad Dermatol. 2006 Dec;55(6):1014-23 - "Dutasteride increased target area hair count versus placebo in a dose-dependent fashion and dutasteride 2.5 mg was superior to finasteride at 12 and 24 weeks"

Red Wine Could Benefit Patients With Diabetes - Medscape, 5/16/08 - "New research suggests that resveratrol, a chemical commonly found in red wine, has the ability to lower blood-sugar levels, but it might also produce certain unpleasant adverse effects ... The concern is that you could lower glucose in diabetics but at the same time. . . [lower] glucose levels in the brain or in other important tissues" - Does that last part make sense?  Is there anything that selectively lowers blood-sugar, i. e., lowers the blood without the brain?  And isn't it the high blood sugar in the brain that they believe is the reason the Alzheimer's rate is so high in diabetics?  And isn't it the advance glycation end products that are partly responsible for damage to important tissues?  Sounds like a biased article to me.  See resveratrol products at Amazon.com.

• Better Blood Sugar = Less Alzheimer's - WebMD, 7/17/06 - "there were almost 20% fewer new cases of Alzheimer's among people taking thiazolidinediones compared with people who took insulin. Similar results were found in a separate comparison between thiazolidinediones users and people starting Glucophage, another drug used to treat diabetes"
• Diabetes Linked With Alzheimer's Disease - WebMD, 2/19/04
• Diabetes Linked to Development of Alzheimer's Disease - Doctor's Guide, 4/8/03 - "people with diabetes had a 73% greater chance of developing Alzheimer s disease compared to controls ... people with diabetes had a 51% greater rate of decline in perceptual speed"
• Diabetes May Be Long-Term Risk Factor for Alzheimer's Disease - Doctor's Guide, 7/24/02

Omega-3 linked to lower colorectal cancer risk - Nutra USA, 5/16/08 - "In terms of fish intake, the highest average intake was associated with a 40 per cent reduction in the risk of colorectal cancer. In addition, this link was relevant for both colon and rectal cancers" - See Mega Twin EPA at Amazon.com.

Affecting the Balance Between Omega-3 and Omega-6? - Dr. Weil, 5/16/08 - "Borage oil, black currant oil (and evening primrose oil) are natural sources of a fatty acid called GLA (gammalinolenic acid), an omega-6 fat that is very hard to come by in the diet. However, the omega-6 provided by these supplements is insignificant compared to the amounts we obtain from dietary sources, and shouldn't affect your omega-6/omega-3 balance. GLA is an effective anti-inflammatory agent that I recommend for arthritis, autoimmune disorders, premenstrual syndrome and for healthy growth of skin, hair, and nails. (By the way, I usually do not recommend borage oil, because it might contain pyrroldizidine alkaloids, compounds that can damage the liver.) The dose of evening primrose oil or black currant oil is 500 mg twice a day" - See Black currant oil products at iHerb and Primrose products at iHerb.

Link Between Vitamin D Status And Breast Cancer Illuminated - Science Daily, 5/15/08 - "This is the first study, to our knowledge, to show that higher serum levels of vitamin D are associated with reduced incidence rates of breast cancer worldwide" - See vitamin D at Amazon.com.

Green Tea Compounds Beat Obstructive Sleep Apnea-related Brain Deficits, Study Shows - Science Daily, 5/15/08 - "green tea polyphenols (GTP) ... intermittent hypoxia (IH) ... The IH-rats that received the green tea-treated water performed significantly better in a water maze than the rats that drank plain water. "GTP-treated rats exposed to IH displayed significantly greater spatial bias for the previous hidden platform position, indicating that GTPs are capable of attenuating IH-induced spatial learning deficits ... GTPs "may represent a potential interventional strategy for patients" with sleep-disordered breathing" - See green tea extract at Amazon.com.

Chromium ingredient may lower blood pressure: study - Nutra USA, 5/15/08 - "niacin-bound chromium III (NBC) may act as an ACE inhibitor, which work by inhibiting the conversion of angiotensin I to the potent vasoconstrictor, angiotensin II, thereby improving blood flow and blood pressure" - I've been told that niacin-bound chromium is sold as ChromeMate®.  See chromium supplements at Amazon.com.

Cardiovascular Risk: Low Sodium Diets Might Be Worse Than High Salt Diets - Science Daily, 5/15/08 - "Contrary to long-held assumptions, high-salt diets may not increase the risk of death ... The Einstein researchers actually observed a significantly increased risk of death from cardiovascular disease (CVD) associated with lower sodium diets" - This has been going back and forth for years.  I try to cut down and use Morton Lite salt, etc.

Omega-3 carrier key to boosting children's attention: study - Nutra USA, 5/15/08 - "Test of Variables of Attention (TOVA) scores ... In terms of attention measures, both omega-3 supplemented groups produced increased in TOVA scores, with an increase of 94 per cent in the PL-omega-3 group and 37 per cent in the fish oil group" - [Abstract] - See Mega Twin EPA at Amazon.com.

Rhodiola for What Ails You? - Dr. Weil, 5/15/08 - "A 2002 review in Herbalgram, the Journal of the American Botanical Council, reported that over the years, numerous studies of rhodiola in humans and animals have shown that it helps prevent fatigue, stress and the damaging effects of oxygen deprivation. Evidence also suggests that it has an antioxidant effect, enhances immune system function and can increase sexual energy ... A study published in 2007 in the Nordic Journal of Psychiatry showed that patients with mild-to-moderate depression who took a rhodiola extract reported fewer symptoms than those who took a placebo. And a study by researchers at the University of California at Irvine found that fruit flies that ate a diet supplemented with rhodiola lived an average of 10 percent longer than flies that didn't eat this herb" - See Rhodiola rosea at Amazon.com.

Age 60 or Older? Get Shingles Vaccine - WebMD, 5/15/08 - "The shingles vaccine Zostavax is now on the CDC's official list of recommended vaccines for people aged 60 and older" - I wasn't going to put  this in but I know someone that has it and trust me, you don't want it.  I'm not 60 yet but I'm going to see if I can get the vaccine anyway.  See:

• Shingles - familydoctor.org - "After you have chickenpox (usually as a child), the virus that causes it stays in your body in certain nerve cells. Most of the time your immune system keeps the virus in these cells. As you get older, or if your immune system gets weak, the varicella virus may escape from the nerve cells and cause shingles"

Reducing Intake Of Dietary Fat Prevents Prostate Cancer In Mice - Science Daily, 5/15/08 - "focused on fat from corn oil, which is made up primarily of omega-6 fatty acids, or the polyunsaturated fat commonly found in the Western diet ... Researchers fed one group of mice a diet with about 40 percent of calories coming from fat, a percentage typical in men eating a Western diet. The other group received 12 percent of their calories from fat, a figure considered to be a very low fat diet. Researchers found there was a 27 percent reduced incidence of prostate cancer in the low-fat diet group. Aronson also studied cells in the prostate that were precancerous, or would soon become cancer, and found that the cells in the mice eating the low-fat diet were growing much more slowly than those in the high-fat group"

Low Cholesterol Leads To Lower PSA, Lower Prostate Cancer Risk, Study Suggests - Science Daily, 5/15/08 - "PSA levels were reduced after starting statin medications and that this decline was proportional to the decline in LDL cholesterol"

Prostates protected by vitamin D: study - Nutra USA, 5/14/08 - "In this study, we have demonstrated that 1,25-(OH)2D can protect nonmalignant human prostate epithelial cells against H2O2-induced cell death through modulating the ROS defense systems, suggesting a possible role of 1,25-(OH)2D in prostate cancer prevention" - See vitamin D at Amazon.com.

When It Comes To Living Longer, It's Better To Go Hungry Than Go Running, Mouse Study Suggests - Science Daily, 5/14/08 - "at least two studies which examined people who engage in high-volume exercise versus people who restricted their calorie intake, had a similar outcome: caloric restriction has physiological benefits that exercise alone does not ... One theory is that exercise places stress on the body, which can result in damage to the tissues and DNA. Another theory is that caloric restriction leads to physiological changes which benefit the body" - I still think it boils down to the ravages of higher insulin and blood sugar which increase advanced glycation end products a major cause of aging.  The problem with calorie restriction, at least in mice, is that it made them cranky.  For example, when they picked them up, the lab people would get bit.  Quality of like is more important to me then long life as demonstrated by me refusing radiation when I had neck cancer.  I don't want an extra five years if it's going to mean being cranky all my life.  I'm hoping to get the same advantage from supplements that control blood sugar such as metformin, chromium, PGX, etc.  See the following from my home page:

Insulin Plays Central Role In Aging, Brown Scientists Discover - Science Daily, 6/4/04 - "insulin regulates its own production and that it directly regulates tissue aging. The principle: Keep insulin levels low and cells are stronger, staving off infection and age-related diseases such as cancer, dementia and stroke" - [Abstract] Related articles:

1. Riverside Professor Receives First Age-Reversal Prize - Science Daily, 1/7/05 - "According to Spindler's research, the fewer calories an animal consumes - provided malnutrition is avoided - the slower an animal ages and the lower the death rate from cancer, heart disease and diabetes" - Some theorize that calorie restriction slows aging because it keeps insulin level low (there are other ways that may keep insulin low such as PGX, chromium, Glucophage (metformin), Actos (pioglitazone), Avandia (rosiglitazone), etc).  See:
   1. Insulin and Aging - Brown University - "Keep insulin levels low and cells are stronger, staving off infection and age-related diseases such as cancer, dementia and stroke"
   2. Resisting Insulin - USC Health Magazine Cover Story, Fall '06 - "Insulin, according to a slew of new studies, may play a role in everything from cancer to hypertension to cardiovascular disease"
   3. Growth hormone, insulin may be key to longevity - WorldHealth.net, 5/24/06 - "it is reasonable to suggest that treatment(s) causing an improvement in insulin sensitivity combined with modest reduction in insulin release would reduce risk of age-related disease and likely also delay aging"
   4. Click here for much more on insulin and aging and ways to reduce insulin.

Last week I mentioned that "the fusion from deuterium (heavy hydrogen which has a neutron and proton in the nucleus vice just a proton) from sea water would have fuel for 150 billion years" so we wouldn't have to worry about future generations because we'd be hit by a asteroid before then.  Someone emailed this article which is good:

• The Sky Is Falling - The Atlantic, 6/08 - "Earth has experienced several mass extinctions—the dinosaurs died about 65 million years ago, and something killed off some 96 percent of the world’s marine species about 250 million years ago ... Right now, astronomers are nervously tracking 99942 Apophis, an asteroid with a slight chance of striking Earth in April 2036. Apophis is also small by asteroid standards, perhaps 300 meters across, but it could hit with about 60,000 times the force of the Hiroshima bomb—enough to destroy an area the size of France. In other words, small asteroids may be more dangerous than we used to think—and may do considerable damage even if they don’t reach Earth’s surface ... A generation ago, the standard assumption was that a dangerous object would strike Earth perhaps once in a million years. By the mid-1990s, researchers began to say that the threat was greater: perhaps a strike every 300,000 years. This winter, I asked William Ailor, an asteroid specialist at The Aerospace Corporation, a think tank for the Air Force, what he thought the risk was. Ailor’s answer: a one-in-10 chance per century of a dangerous space-object strike ... Given the scientific findings, shouldn’t space rocks be one of NASA’s priorities? You’d think so, but Dallas Abbott says NASA has shown no interest in her group’s work: “The NASA people don’t want to believe me. They won’t even listen ... Wouldn’t shifting NASA’s focus away from wasting money on the moon and toward something of clear benefit for the entire world—identifying and deflecting dangerous space objects—be a surer route to enhancing national prestige? But NASA’s institutional instinct is not to ask, “What can we do in space that makes sense?” Rather, it is to ask, “What can we do in space that requires lots of astronauts?” That finding and stopping space rocks would be an expensive mission with little role for the astronaut corps is, in all likelihood, the principal reason NASA doesn’t want to talk about the asteroid threat ... Current telescopes cannot track asteroids or comets accurately enough for researchers to be sure of their courses ... The House and Senate ought to demand that the space program have as its first priority returning benefits to taxpayers. It’s hard to imagine how taxpayers could benefit from a moon base. It’s easy to imagine them benefiting from an effort to protect our world from the ultimate calamity"

I usually don’t forward the novelty emails I get but being a Vietnam helicopter pilot for a year and a half and seeing some of my peers get crapped on when they came back this one got to me especially some of the facial expressions.  Click here.

Another bio-fuel statistic heard on the San Diego 10 PM channel 6 news on 5/15/08 - Tyson is paying 600 million per year more because of the increase in corn prices due to bio-fuel.  If you haven't figured it out, bio-fuel is one of my pet peeves because I think it's ridiculous and people aren't being told the whole story.  See my last two newsletters.  I think it will be the only option in the future for aircraft though.  They will have to figure a solution for that thickening problem at low temperatures.  I can't see aircraft having a fuel tank four times larger for the same energy for liquid hydrogen.

As if terrorist's nukes weren't enough to worry about I was flipping through the channels last night and saw some show about terrorist's germs. They said it was a lot easier to be a microbiologist and make killer germs than to make a nuke and if you have enough people have their finger on the button sooner or later someone will press it. They said that smallpox is 30% deadly but they can engineer it to be 100% deadly and by the time it's gone through the incubation period too many people will have already got it. The Ebola virus is deadly and they claim they can make that as contagious as the common cold. They said that if Ted Kaczynski was a microbiologist instead of a mathematician we could have had a real problem and that terrorist's germs can kill a lot more people than terrorist's nukes.

I went to get a base sticker for my car on Sunday for my new car.  They were closed so I went to the SDG&E pump to get gas.  The GPS found me a much shorter route than what I was going to go.  The tank took 4.1 equivalent gallons for 159.9 miles which calculates to 39 miles per gallon.  I'll admit that I was milking it by driving 65 in the right lane with cruise control and timing the lights but on the other hand about 25% of the driving was stop and go city.  With the extra mileage and paying $1.26 per equivalent gallon when I get the Phill garage refueler my gas bill should be reduced by at least 80%.  So instead of paying maybe $2000 per year on gas I'm paying about $400. It's about 70% less just going by the equivalent price of gas, $4.12 versus $1.26 per equivalent gallon.  There are easy ways offset the increases in the price of gas.  I'll admit this one would take at least five years to pay off but I'll never understand why people don't go for the $15/month plan at Vonage which includes 500 free local and long distance minutes.  That would save most people about $30/month.  They wouldn't notice any difference in service plus I saw on the news where most people only use their home phone these days as a backup for their cell phone.  Just those two things would mean about a $163 savings per month ($133 gas savings and $30 phone savings).

Abstracts from this week's Doctor's Guide Nutrition/Dietetics plus abstracts from my RSS feeds (Click here for the journals, the PubMed ones at the top):

Dietary lipoic acid supplementation can mimic or block the effect of dietary restriction on life span -Mech Ageing Dev. 2008 Apr 22;129(6):341-348 - "Ad libitum feeding a diet supplemented with lipoic acid can therefore act as mimetic of DR to extend survival" - See alpha lipoic acid at Amazon.com.

Relationship of sex steroid hormones with bone mineral density in a nationally-representative sample of men - Clin Endocrinol (Oxf). 2008 May 14 - "Men in the lowest quartile of free estradiol had 70% increased odds (OR=1.69, 95% CI 0.95-2.98) of osteopenia compared with men in the highest quartile. Men in the lowest quartile of free testosterone had nearly four times the odds of osteopenia than those in the highest quartile (OR=3.82; 95% CI 1.87-7.78). Lower concentrations of SHBG appeared protective against osteopenia (p-trend=0.01). Neither total testosterone nor total estradiol was associated with BMD, although men with clinically low estradiol (<20 ng/l) had lower BMD (0.930 g/cm(2), 95% CI 0.88-0.98) than men with normal-range estradiol (1.024 g/cm(2), 1.01-1.04; p=0.004"

Dietary resveratrol administration increases MnSOD expression and activity in mouse brain - Biochem Biophys Res Commun. 2008 May 15 - "trans-Resveratrol (3,4',5-trihydroxystilbene; RES) ... The increase in MnSOD was not due to a substantial proliferation of mitochondria, as RES treatment induced a 10% increase in mitochondrial abundance (Citrate Synthase activity). The potential neuroprotective properties of MnSOD have been well established, and we demonstrate that a dietary delivery of RES is able to increase the expression and activity of this enzyme in vivo" - See resveratrol products at Amazon.com.

Acarbose Treatment Increases Serum Total Adiponectin Levels in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes - Endocr J. 2008 May 15 - "Treatment with acarbose and pioglitazone decreased HbA1c values by 0.49 % and 0.63 %, respectively. Pioglitazone, as expected, increased serum levels of total adiponectin by 2.1 fold and its high molecular weight isoform by 3.6 fold. We found that acarbose also caused a small but significant increase in serum concentrations of total adiponectin. However, in contrast to pioglitazone, no appreciable changes were observed in the levels of high molecular weight adiponectin"

Testosterone treatment in elderly men with subnormal testosterone levels improves body composition and BMD in the hip - Int J Impot Res. 2008 May 15 - "Men with subnormal testosterone had significantly higher weight, fat mass and abdominal adipose tissue. They also had significantly higher glucose and insulin levels, and they had higher triglyceride levels. Testosterone treatment had a large impact on body composition with reduced fat mass and abdominal adipose tissue and increased fat-free mass, but it did not affect weight and glucose and lipid metabolism. Bone mineral density in the hip was significantly higher after the testosterone treatment. Older men with subnormal testosterone levels had an unfavorable metabolic profile. Testosterone treatment improved body composition, but it did not reverse the unfavorable metabolic profile"

Correlation between changes in blood fatty acid composition and visual sustained attention performance in children with inattention: effect of dietary n-3 fatty acids containing phospholipids - Am J Clin Nutr. 2008 May;87(5):1170-80 - "Test of Variables of Attention; TOVA ... Total TOVA scores increased in the PL-n-3 (mean +/- SD: 3.35 +/- 1.86) and FO (1.72 +/- 1.67) groups but not in the placebo group (-0.42 +/- 2.51) (PL-n-3 > FO > placebo; P < 0.001). A significant correlation between the alterations in FAs and increased TOVA scores mainly occurred in the PL-n-3 group"

Rosiglitazone and pioglitazone similarly improve insulin sensitivity and secretion, glucose tolerance and adipocytokines in type 2 diabetic patients - Diabetes Obes Metab. 2008 May 12 - "Rosiglitazone and pioglitazone have similar beneficial effects on glycaemic control insulin sensitivity, insulin secretion and plasma adipocytokine levels. However, pioglitazone has a more beneficial effect on the plasma lipid profile than rosiglitazone"

Role of Metformin for Weight Management in Patients Without Type 2 Diabetes (June) - Ann Pharmacother. 2008 May 13 - "The weight loss effects of metformin in overweight or obese adults and adolescents without diabetes appear promising; however, trials have been limited by small patient populations and weak design. Metformin may also have a positive effect on metabolic parameters such as waist circumference, fasting insulin and glucose levels, and triglycerides" - See metformin at at OffshoreRx1.com.

Comparison of the Safety and Efficacy of a Combination Tablet of Niacin Extended Release and Simvastatin vs Simvastatin Monotherapy in Patients With Increased Non-HDL Cholesterol (from the SEACOAST I Study) - Am J Cardiol. 2008 May 15;101(10):1428-36 - "The efficacy and safety of 2 regimens of a combination of a proprietary niacin extended release plus simvastatin (NER/S; 1,000/20 and 2,000/20 mg/day) were compared with simvastatin monotherapy (20 mg/day) for 24 weeks ... The safety of NER/S was consistent with the safety profile of each individual component. In conclusion, this study showed that NER/S provided additional clinically relevant improvements in multiple lipid parameters and was safe and well tolerated"

Telmisartan increases fatty acid oxidation in skeletal muscle through a peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor-gamma dependent pathway - J Hypertens. 2008 Jun;26(6):1209-1215 - "telmisartan may increase energy expenditure and protect against dietary induced obesity and features of the metabolic syndrome at least in part by increasing muscle fatty acid oxidation through activation of peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor-gamma" - Click here for other reason I feel telmisartan should be the first line treatment.

I went to Miramar to get a base sticker for my car. They were closed so I went to the SDG&E pump to get compressed natural gas. The GPS found me a much shorter route than what I was going to go. The tank took 4.1 equivalent gallons for 159.9 miles which calculates to 39 miles per gallon. I'll admit that I was milking it by driving 65 in the right lane with cruise control and timing the lights but on the other hand about 25% of the driving was stop and go city. With the extra mileage and paying $1.26 per equivalent gallon when I get the Phill garage refueler my gas bill should be reduced by at least 80%. So instead of paying maybe $2000 per year on gas I'm paying about $400. It's about 70% less just going by the equivalent price of gas, $4.12 versus $1.26 per equivalent gallon.

Neat Tech Stuff:

My home is only eight years old but they went with cheapos on the toilets.  I'd needed to use the plunger at least twice per week sometimes after even flushing after every effort.  I did some research on that and bought Kohler Power Lite (1) special order at Home Depot for $719 and installed it myself and haven't had a problem since.  It only comes in the elongated San Raphael model which requires a 12 inch rough-in.  The rough-in is the distance from the wall to the center of the sewer pipe which is also the distance to the T-bolts.  Some toilets have an 11 inch rough in so you need to check if they cut it to the limit.  Click here 1, 2, 3 for the spec sheets.  It also requires a 15 amp electrical connection for the motor.  The Kohler Power Lite is the one with the TV commercial of some guy going into his apartment and he sees a gorgeous female going into her apartment next door wearing a shirt for some plumbing company so he goes into the bathroom and tries flushing everything he can find to plug the toilet but he can't and then his wife looks in to see what he's doing.  The only problem was that the toilet seats about two inches higher.  Click here for my solution to that including videos.  Yeah, it's a small hassle to move the platform depending on what you're going to do but not near the hassle of having to clear the toilet or just the worrying of having to clear it.

Health Focus (Breast Cancer):

Popular Breast Cancer Medications:

• Arimidex (anastrozole) / Aromasin (exemestane) / Femara (letrozole) / Nolvadex (tamoxifen) / Faslodex (fulvestrant)
• Avastin (bevacizumab) / Xeloda (capecitabine) / Herceptin (trastuzumab) / Taxol (paclitaxel) / Taxotere (docetaxel) / Aptosyn (exisulind) / Evista (raloxifene) / Doxil® (doxorubicin HCl)

Alternative Breast Cancer News:

• Breast Cancer - Life Extension Magazine
• Breast Cancer and Nutritional Supplements - natmedonline.com
• Breast Cancer - Vitacost
• I have seen advertisements for a supplement containing calcium D-glucarate to prevent breast cancer. How does this product work? - Dr. Murray
• Beating Breast Cancer - thenutritionreporter.com
• Causes of Breast Cancer - thenutritionreporter.com
• Using Nutrients for Gene Therapy - thenutritionreporter.com
• Different Types of Dietary Fat - thenutritionreporter.com
• Link Between Vitamin D Status And Breast Cancer Illuminated - Science Daily, 5/15/08 - "This is the first study, to our knowledge, to show that higher serum levels of vitamin D are associated with reduced incidence rates of breast cancer worldwide" - See vitamin D at Amazon.com.
• Stay Fit, Avoid Breast Cancer? - WebMD, 5/12/08 - "the women whose activity equaled 13 walking hours a week or 3.25 running hours per week had a 23% lower risk of premenopausal breast cancer compared with the less active women. The strongest association was seen with increased exercise during adolescent and young adult years (ages 12-22)"
• Daily Aspirin May Cut Breast Cancer Risk - WebMD, 4/30/08 - "Overall, NSAID use wasn't associated with breast cancer risk. But women who reported taking daily aspirin were 16% less likely to develop estrogen-receptor positive breast cancer. Those tumors are fueled by estrogen; most breast cancers are estrogen-receptor positive"
• Dietary Lignans Improve Breast Cancer Survival - Medscape, 4/25/08 - "a high intake of lignans was associated with about a 50% reduction in mortality from all causes. This included cardiovascular disease and other cancers" - See flax seed at Amazon.com.
• Coffee May Protect Against Breast Cancer, Study Shows - Science Daily, 4/24/08 - "Depending on which variant of a certain gene a woman has, a coffee consumption rate of at least two-three cups a day can either reduce the total risk of developing breast cancer or delay the onset of cancer"
• High Blood Levels Of Vitamin D Protect Women From Breast Cancer, Study Suggests - Science Daily, 4/22/08 - "Women with a very low blood level of 25(OH)D have a considerably increased breast cancer risk. The effect was found to be strongest in women who were not taking hormones for relief of menopausal symptoms" - See vitamin D at Amazon.com.
• Veggies, Exercise May Cut Cancer Risk - WebMD, 4/15/08 - "Overall, women who engaged in recreational exercise 30 to 150 minutes per week were 50% less likely to have breast cancer than women who exercised less than a half hour per week"
• Green Tea Ingredient, EGCG, Significantly Inhibits Breast Cancer Growth In Female Mice - Science Daily, 4/7/08 - "Green tea is high in the antioxidant EGCG (epigallocatechin-3- gallate) which helps prevent the body���s cells from becoming damaged and prematurely aged ... At the end of the five week period the researchers found that oral consumption of EGCG caused significant decreases in TCSA (66%), tumor weight (68%), IM density 155+/-6 vs.111+/-20 IM#mm^2) and VEGF protein levels (59.0+/-3.7 vs. 45.7+/-1.4 pg/mg) in the breast tumors vs. the control mice, respectively (N=8; P<0.01). Further, VEGF plasma levels were lower in EGCG mice than in control mice (40.8+/-3.5 vs. 26.5+/-3.8 pg/ml P< 0.01)" - [WebMD] - See green tea extract at Amazon.com.
• CXCR4 and CXCL12 down-regulation: A novel mechanism for the chemoprotection of 3,3'-diindolylmethane for breast and ovarian cancers - Cancer Lett. 2008 Mar 28 - "Our data suggest that one mechanism whereby DIM protects against breast, ovarian, and possibly other cancers is through the repression of CXCR4 and/or CXCL12, thereby lowering the invasive and metastatic potential of these cells" - See diindolylmethane at Amazon.com.
• Aspirin Could Reduce Breast Cancer And Help Existing Sufferers, Review of Studies Suggests - Science Daily, 3/6/08 - "Anti-inflammatory drugs like aspirin may reduce breast cancer by up to 20 per cent"
• Plasma Isoflavone Level and Subsequent Risk of Breast Cancer Among Japanese Women: A Nested Case-Control Study From the Japan Public Health Center-Based Prospective Study Group - J Clin Oncol. 2008 Mar 3 - "We found a statistically significant inverse association between plasma genistein and risk of breast cancer, but no association for plasma daidzein. Adjusted odds ratios for the highest versus lowest quartile of plasma level were 0.34 for genistein (95% CI, 0.16 to 0.74; P for trend, .02) and 0.71 for daidzein (95% CI, 0.35 to 1.44; P for trend, .54). Median plasma genistein values in the control group were 31.9 ng/mL for the lowest and 353.9 ng/mL for the highest quartile groups" - See soy isoflavones at Amazon.com.
• Vitamin D Appears to Cut Breast and Colorectal Cancer Risk - Medscape, 2/12/08 - "Compared with a serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D level less than 10 ng/mL, a level of 50 ng/mL reduced the risk for breast cancer by 50%. This level of serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D would require an average intake of 4000 IU of vitamin D per day, although the authors note that intake of 2000 IU per day combined with sun exposure of approximately 12 minutes per day with 50% of the skin exposed could also help patients achieve a serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D level of 50 ng/mL" - See vitamin D at Amazon.com.
• Dietary Fiber Intake Inversely Associated With Breast Cancer Risk - Medscape, 2/8/08 - "Among ever-users of postmenopausal hormones, a significant inverse association was observed between intake of dietary fiber, especially from cereal products, and breast cancer risk for overall, ER+PR+, and ER-PR- tumors. The adjusted relative risk for all invasive tumors was 0.50"
• Coffee, tea, caffeine and risk of breast cancer: A 22-year follow-up - Int J Cancer. 2008 - "our results suggested a weak inverse association between caffeine-containing beverages and risk of postmenopausal breast cancer"
• The combination of epigallocatechin gallate and curcumin suppresses ERalpha-breast cancer cell growth in vitro and in vivo - Int J Cancer. 2007 Dec 20 - "Tumor volume in the EGCG + curcumin treated mice decreased 49% compared to vehicle control mice (p < 0.05), which correlated with a 78 +/- 6% decrease in levels of VEGFR-1 protein expression in the tumors. Curcumin treatment significantly decreased tumor protein levels of EGFR and Akt, however the expression of these proteins was not further decreased following combination treatment. Therefore, these results demonstrate that the combination of EGCG and curcumin is efficacious in both in vitro and in vivo models of ERalpha- breast cancer and that regulation of VEGFR-1 may play a key role in this effect"
• Isoflavones may stop benign breast lumps: study - Nutra USA, 12/18/07 - "the highest plasma levels of genistein (more than 76.95 nanograms per millilitre) were 74 per cent less likely to have breast cancer, and 60 per cent less likely to have benign conditions, relative to women with the lowest average levels (less than 9.42 ng/mL)" - See soy isoflavones at Amazon.com.
• Green Tea Shown To Possess Antitumor Effect In Breast Cancer - Science Daily, 12/8/07 - "green tea has antitumor effect in breast cancer cells ... Dr. Maheshwari’s study observed that green tea can inhibit the invading capacity of these breast cancer cells and have also identified the mechanisms involved in death inducing and invasion inhibiting effects of green tea" - See green tea extract at Amazon.com.
• Intake of fruits, vegetables, and soy foods in relation to breast cancer risk in Korean women: a case-control study - Nutr Cancer. 2007;57(1):20-7 - "Increasing consumption of grapes was linked to a significant protective effect against risk of breast cancer (OR=0.66; 95% CI=0.41-0.86; P<0.01). Among the vegetables, reduced risk was observed with high tomato intake (OR=0.62; 95% CI=0.38-0.81; P<0.01). Among soy foods, high consumption of cooked soybeans, including yellow and black soybeans, had an association with reduced breast cancer (OR=0.67; 95% CI=0.45-0.91; P<0.02)"
• Differential expression of genes induced by resveratrol in human breast cancer cell lines - Nutr Cancer. 2006;56(2):193-203 - "The phytoalexin, trans-resveratrol (RES), is a polyphenolic compound found in plants and fruits that seems to have a wide spectrum of biological activities. It has been found to possess cancer chemopreventive effects by inhibiting diverse cellular events associated with tumor initiation, promotion, and progression. RES is also a phytoestrogen, which binds to and activates estrogen receptors (ERs) that regulate the transcription of estrogen-responsive target genes" - See resveratrol products at Amazon.com.
• Low Calcium May Spur Breast Cancer Spread - oncologystat.com, 10/19/07 - "The study involved implanting breast cancer cells into mice and feeding them a low-calcium diet. The mice experienced a high bone turnover and showed a 43% increase in bone destruction, a 24% increase in tumor area, and a 24% increase in tumor cell proliferation compared to a control group"
• A case-control study on the dietary intake of mushrooms and breast cancer risk among Korean women - Int J Cancer. 2007 Oct 17 - "Both the daily intake (5th vs. 1st quintile, OR = 0.48, 95% CI = 0.30-0.78, p for trend 0.030) and the average consumption frequency of mushrooms (4th vs. 1st quartile, OR = 0.54, 95% CI = 0.35-0.82, p for trend 0.008) were inversely associated with breast cancer risk" - See maitake at Amazon.com and shiitake mushroom supplements at Amazon.com.
• Weight Gain Ups Breast Cancer Risk - WebMD, 10/22/07 - "If you had a weight gain early in life in the absence of weight gain later, it would not be risky in terms of breast cancer ... But weight gain any time after 35 is very predictive of postmenopausal breast cancer"
• Exposure To Sunlight May Decrease Risk Of Advanced Breast Cancer By Half - Science Daily, 10/18/07 - "We believe that sunlight helps to reduce women's risk of breast cancer because the body manufactures the active form of vitamin D from exposure to sunlight ... It is possible that these effects were observed only among light- skinned women because sun exposure produces less vitamin D among women with naturally darker pigmentation" - See vitamin D at Amazon.com.
• Vitamin supplement use and risk for breast cancer: the Shanghai Breast Cancer Study - Breast Cancer Res Treat. 2007 Oct 5 - "a 20% reduction in breast cancer risk was observed with vitamin E supplement use among women with low-dietary vitamin E intake ... A non-significant 20% risk reduction was observed among vitamin B supplement users with low B dietary intake (OR = 0.8; 95% CI, 0.6-1.1). Frequent use of a vitamin B supplement was adversely associated with breast cancer risk among those with high dietary vitamin B intake (OR = 1.4"
• Breast Cancer Risk May Decrease With Increasing Duration of NSAID Use -  Medscape, 10/1/07 - "Use of NSAIDs was associated with a lower risk for breast cancer (odds ratio [OR], 0.76"
• Vitamin D intake and breast cancer risk in postmenopausal women: the Iowa Women's Health Study - Cancer Causes Control. 2007 Sep;18(7):775-82 - "The adjusted RR of breast cancer for women consuming >800 IU/day versus <400 IU/day total vitamin D was 0.89 (95% CI: 0.77-1.03). RRs were stronger among women with negative than positive ER or PR status. The association of high vitamin D intake with breast cancer was strongest in the first 5 years after baseline dietary assessment (RR = 0.66; 95% CI: 0.46-0.94 compared with lowest-intake group), and diminished over time"
• Vitamin D for Cancer Prevention? - WebMD, 9/5/07 - "The 2,000-IU daily dose of vitamin D suggested by the reviewers is currently considered the "tolerable upper limit" for vitamin D ... a projected 50% reduction in colon cancer incidence would require a universal intake of 2,000 IU per day of vitamin D3 ... A similar reduction in breast cancer incidence would require 3,500 IU per day"
• Dietary fiber intake and risk of postmenopausal breast cancer defined by estrogen and progesterone receptor status-A prospective cohort study among Swedish women - Int J Cancer. 2007 Aug 31 - "estrogen receptor (ER)/progesterone receptor (PR)-defined breast cancer risk ... When comparing the highest to the lowest quintile, we observed non-significant inverse associations between total fiber intake and the risk of all tumor subtypes; the multivariate-adjusted RRs were 0.85 (95% CI: 0.69-1.05) for overall, 0.85 (0.64-1.13) for ER+PR+, 0.83 (0.52-1.31) for ER+PR- and 0.94 (0.49-1.80) for ER-PR-. For specific fiber, we observed statistically significant risk reductions for overall (34%) and for ER+PR+ (38%) for the highest versus lowest quintile of fruit fiber, and non-significant inverse associations for other subtypes of cancer and types of fiber. Among ever-users of postmenopausal hormone (PMH), total fiber intake and especially cereal fiber were statistically significantly associated with approximately 50% reduced risk for overall and ER+PR+ tumors when comparing the highest to the lowest quartile, but no association was observed among PMH never users"
• Study Shines More Light On Benefit Of Vitamin D In Fighting Cancer - Science Daily, 8/21/07 - "For the first time, we are saying that 600,000 cases of breast and colorectal cancer could be prevented each year worldwide, including nearly 150,000 in the United States alone ... The serum level recommended by the study would correspond to intake of 2000 International Units per day of vitamin D3 for a meaningful reduction in colorectal cancer" - See vitamin D at Amazon.com.
• Increased folate may slash breast cancer risk - Nutra USA, 8/9/07 - "women in the highest average intake group (456 micrograms of folate per day) had a 44 per cent lower risk of invasive breast cancer than women in the lowest average intake group (160 micrograms of folate per day)" - See folic acid at Amazon.com.
• High folate intake is associated with lower breast cancer incidence in postmenopausal women in the Malmo Diet and Cancer cohort - Am J Clin Nutr. 2007 Aug;86(2):434-43 - "Compared with the lowest quintile, the incidence of invasive breast cancer was reduced in the highest quintile of dietary folate intake (HR: 0.56; 95% CI: 0.35, 0.90; P for trend = 0.02); total folate intake, including supplements (HR: 0.56; 95% CI: 0.34, 0.91; P for trend = 0.006); and dietary folate equivalents (HR: 0.59" - See folic acid at Amazon.com.
• Breast Cancer: More Veggies Not Better - WebMD, 7/17/07 - "eating more than five daily servings of fruits and vegetables doesn't offer extra benefit"
• Diet And Exercise Key To Surviving Breast Cancer, Regardless Of Obesity, Study Suggests - Science Daily, 6/9/07 - "even if a woman is overweight, if she eats at least five servings of vegetables and fruits a day and walks briskly for 30 minutes, six days a week, her risk of death from her disease goes down by 50 percent"
• Vitamin D intake and breast cancer risk in postmenopausal women: the Iowa Women's Health Study - Cancer Causes Control. 2007 Jun 5 - "Vitamin D intake of >800 IU/day appears to be associated with a small decrease in risk of breast cancer among postmenopausal women" - See vitamin D at Amazon.com.
• Preventing Breast Cancer? - Dr. Weil, 5/3/07 - "Take 2 grams of fish oil a day. High omega-3 fatty acid intake significantly reduces your risk of breast cancer" - See Mega Twin EPA at Amazon.com or Jarrow Max DHA at Amazon.com.
• Erythrocyte fatty acids and breast cancer risk: a case-control study in Shanghai, China - Am J Clin Nutr. 2007 Apr;85(4):1090-7 - "Our results support a protective effect of n-3 fatty acids on breast cancer risk" - See Mega Twin EPA at Amazon.com.
• Vitamin d and reduced risk of breast cancer: a population-based case-control study - Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2007 Mar;16(3):422-9 - "We found strong evidence to support the hypothesis that vitamin D could help prevent breast cancer. However, our results suggest that exposure earlier in life, particularly during breast development, maybe most relevant"
• Dietary carotenoids and risk of breast cancer in Chinese women - Asia Pac J Clin Nutr. 2007;16 Suppl:437-42 - "higher intake of lycopene, beta-carotene and beta-cryptoxanthin is associated to a lower risk of breast cancer among Chinese women"
• Plant Estrogen May Cut Breast Cancer - WebMD, 3/20/07 - "A diet rich in estrogen-like compounds found in flaxseed, tea, and many plants may help curb breast cancer after menopause ... Women with the highest lignan intake were 17% less likely to be diagnosed with breast cancer during the study than those with the lowest intake"
• Exercise Helps Prevent Breast Cancer - WebMD, 2/16/07 - "women who get more than six hours of strenuous exercise a week, and have no family history of breast cancer, may be 23% less likely to develop the disease than women who don't exercise at all"
• Vitamin D Appears to Cut Breast and Colorectal Cancer Risk - Medscape, 2/12/07 - "Compared with a serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D level less than 10 ng/mL, a level of 50 ng/mL reduced the risk for breast cancer by 50%. This level of serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D would require an average intake of 4000 IU of vitamin D per day, although the authors note that intake of 2000 IU per day combined with sun exposure of approximately 12 minutes per day with 50% of the skin exposed could also help patients achieve a serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D level of 50 ng/mL" - See vitamin D at Amazon.com.
• Vitamin D Backed For Cancer Prevention In Two New Studies - Science Daily, 2/8/07 - "Two new vitamin D studies using a sophisticated form of analysis called meta-analysis, in which data from multiple reports is combined, have revealed new prescriptions for possibly preventing up to half of the cases of breast cancer and two-thirds of the cases of colorectal cancer in the United States ... The serum level associated with a 50 percent reduction in risk could be maintained by taking 2,000 international units of vitamin D3 daily plus, when the weather permits, spending 10 to 15 minutes a day in the sun" - See vitamin D at Amazon.com.
• Phytoestrogens and indicators of breast cancer prognosis - Nutr Cancer. 2006;56(1):3-10 - "In women with higher intakes of phytoestrogens, there was a 32% reduction in the odds of being diagnosed with any stage of cancer other than stage 1 (95% confidence interval, CI = 0.49-0.93; P = 0.02), a 38% reduction in odds of being diagnosed with positive lymphovascular invasion (95% CI = 0.40-0.95; P = 0.03), and a 66% increase in the odds of being diagnosed with a positive progesterone receptor"
• Low-Fat Diet May Help Breast Cancer - WebMD, 12/16/06
• Pro-vitamin E Shown To Be Active Against Breast Cancer Cells - Science Daily, 12/9/06 - "pro-vitamin E or alpha-tocopheryl succinate can reduce tumour volume in experimental animals with high levels of HER2"
• Soy, Fish May Cut Cancer Risk - WebMD, 11/14/06 - "Women who ate the most soy as teens or adults were about 25% less likely to have breast cancer than those who skimped on it"
• Control hormones to stop breast cancer - MSNBC, 10/27/06
• Vitamin D May Slow Breast Cancer - WebMD, 10/17/06 - "women with early-stage breast cancer had much higher levels of vitamin D in their blood than women with more advanced disease"
• Regular Exercise, Keeping Weight In Check Reduces Breast-cancer Risk In Postmenopausal Women - Science Daily, 10/12/06 - "women with high BMI and low physical-activity had mean estrogen concentrations that were 50 percent to 100 percent higher than that of women with low BMI and high activity levels"
• Idleness, Weight Up Breast Cancer Risk - WebMD, 10/10/06 - "postmenopausal women who exercise and keep their weight down substantially reduce their risk of breast cancer"
• Indole-3: A Broccoli Cure? - Dr. Weil, 9/15/07 - see my I3C page.
• Exercise May Up Breast Cancer Survival - WebMD, 9/11/06
• Ginseng linked to improved breast cancer outcomes - Nutra USA, 8/17/06
• Weight Gain May Increase Risk of Breast Cancer in Postmenopausal Women - Doctor's Guide, 7/12/06 - "Women who gained about 55 pounds or more since age 18 were at a 45% increased risk of breast cancer, compared with those who maintained their weight ... Women who gained about 22 pounds or more since menopause were at an 18% increased risk of breast cancer ... Those who lost about 22 pounds or more since menopause (and kept the weight off) and had never used postmenopausal hormones were at a 57% lower risk of breast cancer than those who simply maintained their weight"
• Veggies may keep breast cancer from returning - MSNBC, 4/14/06 - "After about seven years, women who began with the highest levels of carotenoids in their blood showed 43 percent less risk of developing breast cancer again when compared to women with the lowest carotenoid levels"
• Food Antioxidants, Vitamin D Fight Breast Cancer - HealthDay, 4/7/06 - "postmenopausal women who consumed high levels of flavonoids, a class of antioxidants found in plants, had a 45 percent lower risk of breast cancer ... Those who had the highest levels of intake of kaempferol had a 38 percent decrease in the incidence of ovarian cancer compared to women with the lowest levels of this flavonoid ... those with the highest blood levels of a vitamin D metabolite known as 25-hydroxyvitamin D had a 50 percent reduced risk of breast cancer" - [Science Daily]
• Tea May Fight Ovarian, Breast Cancers - WebMD, 4/5/06 - "women who increase their consumption of kaempferol, a type of flavonoid, can lower their risk of ovarian cancer by nearly 40% ... women who consume a diet rich in other types of flavonoids - specifically, flavones, flavan-3-ols, and lignans -- can reduce their chance of developing breast cancer by 26% to 39%" - See iHerb or Vitacost green tea products.
• Vitamin D linked to lower breast cancer risk - Nutra USA, 4/4/06 - "a serum vitamin D level of 52 nanograms per milliliter was associated with a 50 percent reduction in breast cancer risk. To have such a serum vitamin level would require a daily intake of about 1,000 International Units (IU)" - See iHerb or Vitacost vitamin D products.
• Researchers Find Ginseng May Improve Breast Cancer Outcomes - Science Daily, 3/16/06 - "They also found significant improvements in both survival and quality of life measures in patients who used ginseng" - See ginseng at Amazon.com.
• Soy Phytoestrogens May Block Estrogen Effects - Science Daily, 1/16/06 - "the addition of high levels of dietary soy isoflavones tended to block estrogen effects in breast tissue. This finding suggests that postmenopausal women with higher levels of estrogen may derive the greatest benefit from soy"
• Consumption of coffee, but not black tea, is associated with decreased risk of premenopausal breast cancer - J Nutr. 2006 Jan;136(1):166-71 - "Among premenopausal women, consumption of regular coffee was associated with linear declines in breast cancer risk (P for trend = 0.03); consumers of >/=4 cups/d experienced a 40% risk reduction"
• Eat Dairy Foods, Avoid Breast Cancer? - WebMD, 12/14/05 - "Women who had the highest dietary calcium intake were 20% less likely to have been diagnosed with breast cancer than those whose diets were lowest in dietary calcium"
• Turmeric for Breast Cancer Prevention? - Dr. Weil, 12/2/05
• Breast cancer and dietary factors in Taiwanese women - Cancer Causes Control. 2005 Oct;16(8):929-37 - "Cases also consumed statistically significant less supplements such as vitamins and mineral than controls ... Our results indicate a strong protective effect of dietary supplements and a harmful effect of dietary fats on the risk of breast cancer among women in Taiwan"
• Primrose Oil Component Cuts Levels Of Cancer-causing Gene Her-2/neu - Science Daily, 11/4/05 - "Gamma-linolenic acid (GLA), a substance in evening primrose oil and several other plant oils used in herbal medicine, inhibits action of Her-2/neu, a cancer gene that is responsible for almost 30 percent of all breast cancers" - See borage oil at Amazon.com.
• Plant oil 'acts like cancer drug' - BBC News, 11/2/05 - "It is down to a substance in the oil called gamma-linolenic acid that acts on the same receptor in tumours as the powerful breast cancer drug Herceptin" - See borage oil at Amazon.com.
• Spice Ingredient May Cut Breast Cancer Spread - WebMD, 10/17/05
• Eat wisely to reduce breast cancer risk - MSNBC, 7/22/05 - "The women who followed a low-fat diet in this study reduced their risk of a recurrence during the next five years by 24 percent ... Keep in mind that omega-3 fats may be protective"
• Curry Spice May Curb Breast Cancer's Spread - WebMD, 6/9/05 - "Less than a quarter of the mice in the curcumin-plus-Taxol group had cancer that spread to the lungs. So did half of the curcumin group. In comparison, cancer spread to the lungs in three-fourths of the Taxol group and almost all (95%) mice that got no treatment" - See iHerb or Vitacost curcumin products.
• Omega-3 Offers Hope For New Anti-breast Cancer Drugs - Science Daily, 6/8/05 - "Compounds of Omega-3 fatty acids and propofol reduce the ability of breast cancer cells to develop into malignant tumours, inhibiting cancer cell migration by 50% and significantly reducing their metastatic activity ... Propofol is a potent anti-oxidant known to inhibit cancer cell migration by only 5-10%"
• Weight Gain Affects Breast Cancer Survival - Physician's Weekly, 5/16/05
• Statin Drugs Linked to Reduced Cancer Risk - WebMD, 5/16/05 - "During a six-year period, women who used statins reduced their risk of breast cancer by more than half (51%) compared with nonusers" - See Zocor at International Anti-aging Systems or SuperSaverMeds.com.
• Breast Cancer Protection Starts in the Womb - WebMD, 4/20/05 - "Mothers who choose foods packed with omega-3 fatty acids during pregnancy and while nursing and then feed their kids such a diet after weaning may reduce the risk of breast cancer in their daughters by nearly 90%, early research in mice indicates"
• Soy protein could protect against breast cancer, say researchers - Nutra USA, 4/13/05 - "Eating soy protein on a regular basis may reduce a woman’s chance of developing breast cancer by up to 22 percent"
• Disease-fighting Chemicals In Apples Could Reduce The Risk Of Breast Cancer, Cornell Study In Rats Suggests - Science Daily, 3/12/05 - "tumor incidence was reduced by 17, 39 and 44 percent in rats fed the human equivalent of one, three or six apples a day, respectively, over 24 weeks ... Studies increasingly provide evidence that it is the additive and synergistic effects of the phytochemicals present in fruits and vegetables that are responsible for their potent antioxidant and anticancer activities"
• An Apple a Day May Cut Breast Cancer Risk - WebMD, 3/2/05 - "For humans, the doses equaled eating one, three, or six apples per day ... After 24 weeks, breast tumor rates were 17% lower in the rats receiving the low dose of the apple extract, 39% lower with the medium dose, and 44% lower with the high dose"
• Seaweed May Lower Breast Cancer Risk - WebMD, 2/2/05
• Calcium, Vitamin D Intake Low among Breast Cancer Patients - Doctor's Guide, 12/14/04
• Anticancer Diet - Time, 11/15/04 - "eating at least 35 servings of fruits and vegetables a week can cut the risk of developing hormone-stimulated breast-cancer tumors by 35% in postmenopausal women ... leafy greens and colorful vegetables like carrots, squash, tomatoes and peppers, which are rich in lycopene and beta carotene, are especially potent cancer fighters"
• Exercise Boosts Recovery From Breast Cancer - Science Daily, 10/18/04
• Eating More Soy-rich Foods Could Reduce Spread Of Breast Cancer - Science Daily, 9/29/04 - "eating a soy rich products such as soy milk, soy drinks and desserts, could have an important role in preventing the spread of cancer cells in the body"
• Fish Oil's Breast Cancer Benefits May Vary - WebMD, 9/23/04
• How To Prevent Breast Cancer Anti-Cancer Power of Coenzyme Q10 - Life Extension Magazine, 1/96
• Anti-cancer Compound In Vegetables Found To Block Late-stage Breast-cancer Cell Growth - Science Daily, 9/1/04 - "The compound, in broccoli and other cruciferous vegetables ... sulforaphane (SUL) ... We were surprised and pleased to find that SUL could block the growth of breast cells that were already cancerous ... SUL's actions appear similar to a group of anticancer drugs currently in use, such as Taxol"
• Overweight? Good Cholesterol May Fight Cancer - WebMD, 8/3/04 - "overweight, postmenopausal women with high levels of good HDL cholesterol have 67% less breast cancer than similar women with low HDL levels"
• Aspirin May Protect Against Breast Cancer - WebMD, 5/25/04 - "taking aspirin at least once a week for six months or longer reduced the risk of breast cancer by 20%, compared with women who never took aspirin. Taking a daily aspirin reduced risk by more than 25%"
• Role of vitamins in the risk, prevention, and treatment of breast cancer - Curr Opin Obstet Gynecol. 2004 Feb;16(1):19-25 - "High intake of folate or adequate circulating levels of folate may reduce the risk of breast cancer. Adequate folate levels may be particularly important for women who are at higher risk of breast cancer because of high alcohol consumption. The inverse association between vitamin D and risk of breast cancer needs to be evaluated in more studies" - See iHerb or Vitacost folic acid products.
• Exercise Helps Breast Cancer Fight - Intelihealth, 3/29/04
• Diet has impact on breast cancer, say scientists - Nutra USA, 3/25/04
• Vitamin D to protect women - Nutra USA, 3/23/04 - "Now the researchers believe that a contributing factor to high rates of the cancer may be low levels of vitamin D" - See iHerb or Vitacost vitamin D products.
• Does tea really fight cancer? - MSNBC, 11/21/03 - "A new study of the potential link of green tea consumption with lower risk of breast cancer does suggest a protective benefit. Asian-American women who averaged at least three six-ounce cups of green tea per week were about half as likely to develop breast cancer as those who drank none ... One of the strengths of this study is that researchers statistically adjusted for the effects of many other influences on breast cancer risk"  - See iHerb or Vitacost green tea products. - Ben
• Cutting Genetic Breast Cancer Risk - WebMD, 10/23/03
• Walking Away from Breast Cancer? - Dr. Weil, 10/20/03
• Is Breast Cancer Treatment Shorter Today? - Dr. Weil, 10/6/03
• Modest Exercise Lowers Breast Cancer Risk - WebMD, 9/9/03 - "exercising a mere 1 1/4 to 2 1/2 hours each week -- walking briskly or similar exercise -- reduced the risk of breast cancer by 18% compared with inactive women. That protective effect is only slightly less than the 22% reduced risk observed in women who exercise at least 10 hours a week"
• Burger Diet Raises Breast Cancer Risk - WebMD, 7/15/03 - "The increase was most closely linked with animal fat -- specifically from animal fat -- and, more specifically, red meat and high-fat dairy foods"
• High Cysteine Levels Linked to Lower Rates of Breast Cancer - Doctor's Guide, 7/15/03 - "Women in the highest quintile for measured cysteine levels in this study had a 56% lower risk of invasive or in situ breast cancer than women in the lowest quintile ... The findings were more pronounced when only invasive cancer was considered ... Cysteine or its precursors might have the potential to be chemoprotective against breast cancer" - See iHerb or Vitacost cysteine products.
• NSAID Use Linked to Lower Rates of Breast Cancer - Doctor's Guide, 7/15/03 - "Ten years or more of ibuprofen use reduced a patient's risk nearly in half (RR=0.51, P<0.04), and just 1 to 4 years of regular use was associated with a 29% reduction in risk. The effect of acetylsalicylic acid (Aspirin) was weaker, with 10 years of use of full-strength Aspirin associated with a 21% risk reduction that did not achieve significance ... Neither acetaminophen nor low-dose Aspirin was associated with a reduction in breast-cancer risk ... he found the evidence of a chemoprotective effect compelling enough to treat himself with 200 mg of ibuprofen per day" - See ibuprofen at Amazon.com.
• Best Bet for Breast Cancer Survivors? - Dr. Weil, 7/15/03
• Hormone Melatonin Slows Breast Cancer - WebMD, 7/14/03 - "The nighttime hormone melatonin puts breast cancer cells to sleep. It also slows breast cancer growth by 70%" - See iHerb or Vitacost melatonin products.
• Chemical in Miso and Other Soy Foods Believed to Block Certain Tumors - WebMD, 6/17/03 - "identified 21,852 women between the ages of 40 and 59 and surveyed them about various lifestyle issues ... They traced the women 10 years later ... Women with the most isoflavones in their diet had the lowest risk of breast cancer. This was especially true of postmenopausal women"
• Selenium Supplements May Reduce Breast Cancer Risk in Some - WebMD, 6/16/03 - "a certain version of the gene was associated with a higher breast cancer risk. That same gene was also less responsive to selenium stimulation ... that means people with this genetic variation may benefit from selenium supplements but they require a higher dose to achieve selenium's protective effect against cancer"
• Night Shifts May Raise Cancer Risk - WebMD, 6/3/03 - "Data from an ongoing study of almost 80,000 nurses already suggest that working nights increases a woman's risk of breast cancer ... a new analysis points to a similar association for colorectal cancer ... "The peak production of melatonin occurs at about 1 or 2 a.m." Exposure to light at night stops the production of melatonin" - See iHerb or Vitacost melatonin products.
• Yoga Helps Breast Cancer Patients - WebMD, 6/3/03
• Breast Cancer: Beating the Odds? - Dr. Weil, 5/8/03
• Breast Cancer Survivors: Get Moving - WebMD, 5/7/03
• Dietary intake and risk of postmenopausal breast cancer - Cancer Causes Control 2003 Feb;14(1):19-27 - "Red meat intake was significantly associated with an increased breast cancer risk (p for trend = 0.002) and fish (including fried fish) and dairy product intake was inversely associated with breast cancer risk (p for trend = 0.04 and 0.05, respectively). No significant associations were noted betwen fruit or vegetable intake and breast cancer risk"
• Cholesterol Drugs: Breast Cancer Treatment? - WebMD, 4/10/03 - "One reason cancer cells grow so fast is that they lack biochemical brakes that slow cell growth ... Mevacor -- and, likely, other statins -- lets these growth-brakes build up inside cancer cells -- making them a potentially useful breast cancer treatment down the road" - Note: Red yeast rice is a non-prescription statin but you should still check with your physician.
• Painkillers Help Prevent Breast Cancer - WebMD, 4/9/03
• Use of Non-steroidal Anti-inflammatory Drugs Dramatically Reduces Risk of Breast Cancer - Doctor's Guide, 4/8/03
• Folate, Vitamin B6 Reduce Breast Cancer Risk Among Moderate Drinkers - WebMD, 3/4/04 - "They found women with the highest folate levels were 27% less likely to have breast cancer than those with the lowest folate levels. And the reduction in breast cancer risk was much greater among women who drank about one glass of wine or a cocktail per day. These moderate drinkers with high folate levels were 89% less likely to develop breast cancer than those who drank less than one drink per day ... Women with high levels of vitamin B6 also had about a 30% lower risk of breast cancer than those with low levels of this nutrient. Although high levels of vitamin B12 seemed to protect premenopausal women against breast cancer, the effect was not found among postmenopausal women" - See iHerb or Vitacost folic acid products.
• Eggs May Lower Breast Cancer Risk - WebMD, 2/20/03 - "eating about three eggs a week during adolescence decreased the risk of breast cancer by 18%. Diets rich in vegetable oils and dietary fiber had similar effects. But eating roughly one pat of butter a day increased risk by 6% ... eggs may be protective because they are high in essential amino acids, vitamins, and minerals. And studies suggest that fiber-rich foods reduce estrogen levels"
• Exercise Cuts Breast Cancer Risk - WebMD, 2/10/03 - "women who reported high levels of physical activity from as young as age 16 in some cases cut their risk of developing breast cancer after menopause in half, compared to women who reported no strenuous activity ... The study has a drawback, though, that all such studies face, which is what's called a "healthy patient bias." In this case, women who exercise often might be more apt to take care of themselves in other ways, so that a decrease in breast cancer later in life may not be due to the exercise itself, but rather some other associated factor. The researchers accounted for this by factoring in subjects such as smoking history and weight. "After adjusting for all these factors we're pretty confident that what we see is the effect of exercise,""
• Breast Cancer Answers: Strategies Show Promise In Mice - Intelihealth, 10/23/02 - "Another study found that young female mice who ate lots of fish oil had lower breast cancer rates"
• Eating Lots of Tofu May Prevent Breast Cancer - WebMD, 10/2/02
• Got Milk - WebMD, 9/27/02 - "A combination of soy and cow's milk could have some beneficial, anti-cancer nutrients ... She explains that conjugated linoleic acid, or CLA, is the key to the cow's role in cancer prevention. CLA is a minor fatty acid found in milk and milk products and beef ... He says he thinks the most potent cancer-fighting component of soy is a compound called genistein ... He demonstrated that by feeding rats a diet containing genistein before exposing them to a cancer-causing drug. The number of breast tumors was reduced by 50%" - See iHerb and Vitacost CLA products.
• Diet Rich In Soy Protein Lowers Estrogens Associated With Breast Cancer - Intelihealth, 9/24/02 - "Consuming tofu and other soy-based foods significantly lowers levels of a class of estrogens normally associated with breast cancer risk in postmenopausal women ... The study found a link between soy-rich diets consumed by Asian women in Singapore and reduced levels of an estrogen called estrone, the predominant form of estrogen in women following menopause ... estrone levels did not decline in a linear manner with increasing soy intake; an apparent reduction was only seen among those in the top 25 percent of soy protein consumers ... The study also showed that hormone levels remained unaffected by other dietary and lifestyle choices. These included consumption of alcohol, coffee, tea, fat, fiber and various micronutrients, including vitamins A, C and E, along with calcium and carotenoids ... There is a suggestion that weight change (particularly weight increase) has a profound influence on breast cancer rates in Asian-American women"
• New Broccoli Compound Appears Promising Against Breast Cancer - Intelihealth, 8/19/02 - "Called oxomate, the synthetic compound works like its natural counterpart, sulforaphane, which was recently identified as a cancer-preventive agent in broccoli and other cruciferous vegetables (such as cabbage and Brussels sprouts). Both compounds boost the body's production of phase II enzymes, which can detoxify cancer-causing chemicals and reduce cancer risk ... But the natural broccoli compound, sulforaphane, can be toxic in high doses ... It is also difficult and expensive to synthesize ... oxomate was seven times less toxic than sulforaphane ... In tests on female rats, those that were fed oxomate after exposure to cancer-inducing chemicals had up to a 50 percent reduction in the number of breast tumors"
• Breast Cancer May Be Thwarted By Carotenoids - Doctor's Guide, 5/23/02 - "These results suggest carotenoids may protect against development of breast cancer" - See Jarrow Formulas, CarotenALL, Mixed Carotenoid Complex at Amazon.com.
• Does Vitamin E Prevent Breast Cancer? - Life Extension Magazine, 5/02 - "premenopausal women with a family history who consumed the highest quantity of vitamin E enjoyed a 43% reduction in breast cancer incidence compared to only a 16% risk reduction for women without a family history of breast cancer.[11] Based on this study, vitamin E appears to protect against genetic- predisposed breast cancer better than environmental-induced breast cancer. (Note that nutrients like indole-3-carbinol may specifically protect against environmental breast carcinogens.)"
• What's Wrong With Vitamin E? - Life Extension Magazine, 5/02 - "Tocotrienols and breast cancer ..." - See Jarrow FamilE (contains all eight members of the vitamin E family, includes Tocomin) at Amazon.com.
• Exposure To Sunlight Lowers Risks Of Four Cancers - Doctor's Guide, 4/4/02 - "exposure to sunlight contributes to non-melanoma skin cancer. "By contrast, several ecological studies suggest that sunlight may protect against female breast, ovarian, prostate, and colon cancer, all diseases that contribute to a substantially higher proportion of cancer mortality in the western industrialized world." ... Some studies have suggested an association between circulating vitamin D in blood, which is largely derived from sunlight, or dietary vitamin D and colorectal, prostate and female breast cancers"
• Some Herbs Boost Breast Cancer Risk - WebMD, 3/26/02 - "Our studies show that dong quai and ginseng stimulate the growth of [breast cancer] cells"
• Serum Levels of Micronutrients, Antioxidants and Total Antioxidant Status Predict Risk of Breast Cancer in a Case Control Study - The American Society for Nutritional Sciences J. Nutr. 132:303-306, 2002 - "Blood samples were collected from 153 breast cancer cases and 151 controls. Serum samples were analyzed for retinol, -tocopherol, lycopene, - and ß-carotene by HPLC, and total antioxidant status by the Trolox-equivalent antioxidant assay ... After adjustment for age at menarche, parity, dietary fat and alcohol intake, we observed the following reductions in odds ratios for breast cancer risk comparing the highest with the lowest quartiles: 0.47 [95% confidence interval (CI) 0.24, 0.91] for ß-carotene; 0.53 (CI 0.28, 1.01) for retinol; 0.50 (CI 0.26, 0.97) for bilirubin and 0.47 (CI 0.24, 0.94) for total antioxidant status. We conclude that increased serum levels of ß-carotene, retinol, bilirubin and total antioxidant status are associated with reductions in breast cancer risk"
• Estrogen's Two-Way Street - Nutrition Science News, 11/01 - "Studies show that when 2-hydroxylation increases, the body resists cancer, and that when 2-hydroxylation decreases, cancer risk increases ... Cell-culture studies and human clinical trials have shown that I3C at doses of 200­400 mg/day can influence estrogen metabolism and promote formation of 2-OH-estrone, and therefore may be useful in breast cancer prevention"
• Green Tea, Glycine May Slow Tumor Growth - WebMD, 11/2/01 - "high levels of glycine reduced breast tumor growth rates by 15% in rats by blocking the growth of new tumor-feeding blood vessels. The special diet also reduced wound-healing by 30% ... Tumors and wounds have one very important thing in common -- they both produce new blood vessels through the same mechanism, known as angiogenesis ... If you can block one response, you can block the other"
• Acupuncture Relieves Nausea And Pain Following Major Breast Surgery - Intelihealth, 10/18/01
• Breast Cancer and the Night Shift: Is There A Link? - WebMD, 10/17/01
• Drink To Breast Health - Intelihealth, 10/9/01 - "Possible anti-cancer factors found in milk include calcium, vitamin D and CLA (conjugated linoleic acid). A recent Finnish study found that women with breast cancer had significantly lower levels of CLA in their diets and blood, compared with women without breast cancer. CLA has been shown to block the local growth and spread of breast cancer in animal studies"
• Activity Could Lower Cancer Risk - Intelihealth, 10/1/01
• Physical activity Over Lifetime Could Reduce Breast Cancer Risk - Doctor's Guide, 9/27/01
• Flaxseed May Fight Breast Cancer In Postmenopausal Women - Intelihealth, 8/30/01
• Can Flax Beat Soy as Breast Cancer Buster? - WebMD, 8/30/01
• Keeping Weight Down Can Save You From Breast Cancer - WebMD, 8/20/01
• Curcumin protects against mammary tumors in rats - Life Extension Magazine, 8/01
• Dr. Weil: Chemo OK, but other treatments needed - CNN, 4/13/01
• I3C and DIM: Keys to Cancer Prevention? - Nutrition Science News, 4/01 - "Increased 16-alpha-hydroxyestrone production has been linked to an increase in breast cancer. Based on estrogen metabolism's influence on breast-cancer risk, researchers speculate that reducing hydroxylation of estrone's 16th carbon and increasing hydroxylation of the second carbon would be a wise, protective measure ... The minimum effective dose to increase the ratio of 2-hydroxyestrone to 16-alpha-hydroxyestrone was 300 mg/day ... Most of the research thus far has focused on I3C, a phytonutrient converted by stomach acid to DIM, indolylcarbazole, and other metabolites ... A 350­500 mg dose of I3C is roughly equal to 300­500 mg of raw cabbage or brussels sprouts or about 3 cups of broccoli"
• Newer Agents Offer Better Hot Flash Control In Breast Cancer Patients - Doctor's Guide, 4/4/01 - "If hot flashes are mild and/or the patient is risk averse, vitamin E (800 IU/day) is reasonable to try, because it is safe, inexpensive, and has some demonstrated efficacy. A reasonable next step is to use other non-hormonal agents that may have more efficacy than vitamin E, but also have the associated drawbacks of higher cost and worse side effects"
• Somers' cancer treatment worries some experts - CNN, 3/30/01 - see my Iscador page.
• Exercise Benefits Patients Being Treated For Early Stage Breast Cancer - Doctor's Guide, 1/31/01
• Women Battling Breast Cancer Should Stay in Fighting Shape, Exercise Important During Breast Cancer Treatment - WebMD, 1/30/01
• Soy and Health: What's the Scoop? Most Recent Addition to Soy Research Shows Lower Breast Cancer Risk - WebMD, 12/21/00
• A Muffin a Day for Breast Cancer? If It Contains Flaxseed Oil, May Have Benefits Similar to Potent Drug - WebMD, 12/8/00 - "the investigators found that flaxseed oil's ability to reduce tumor growth is comparable to tamoxifen." - See flaxseed
• Researchers Find Phytochemicals In Apples May Fight Off Cancer - Intelihealth, 8/22/00
• Know Your Breast Cancer Prevention Options - WebMD, 7/20/00
• I3C Indole 3 carbinol The Tamoxifen Substitute - Life Extension Foundation, 10/99
• Exercise May Reduce Breast Cancer - Intelihealth, 10/26/99
• Elevated Prolactin Linked To Breast Cancer - Life Extension Magazine, 6/99
• Using natural therapies for the prevention of breast and other forms of cancer - Life Extension Magazine, 6/99
• Co-Q10 and Cancer - Nutrition Science News, 4/99
• Natural Sugar-Phosphate Compound Shows Promise In Cancer - Doctor's Guide, 3/30/98 (see my IP-6 page)
• Chalk Up Another One For Broccoli! Chemical In Vegetable Shown To Halt Growth Of Breast Cancer Cells - Science Daily, 2/16/98
• Morphological and biochemical status of the mammary gland as influenced by conjugated linoleic acid: implication for a reduction in mammary cancer risk - Cancer Res. 1997 Nov 15;57(22):5067-72 (See my CLA page)
• Study: Grapes inhibit cancer growth - CNN, 1/10/97 (see my grape seed extract page)
• Partial and complete regression of breast cancer in patients in relation to dosage of coenzyme Q10 -  Biochem Biophys Res Commun 1994 Mar 30;199(3):1504-8 - see my coenzyme Q10 page.

Other Breast Cancer News:

• Breast Cancer Study: No Link Between Aromatase Inhibitors and Cardiovascular Problems - Doctor's Guide, 4/24/08
• New Type Of Drug Shrinks Primary Breast Cancer Tumors Significantly In Just 6 Weeks, Study Shows - Science Daily, 4/17/08
• Synthetic Vitamin D Helps Prevent Some Breast Cancers, Animal Study Suggests - Science Daily, 4/14/08 - "daily injections of Gemini 0097 cut growth of ER-positive cancer by 60 percent in rat studies, and reduced ER-negative breast cancer by half in mice"
• New Option For Targeted Breast Cancer Therapy, Study Suggests - Science Daily, 4/4/08
• Trimming Breast Cancer Radiation Time - WebMD, 3/18/08
• High Levels Of Estrogen Associated With Breast Cancer Recurrence - Science Daily, 3/6/08
• New Anti-cancer Agent Can Overcome Resistance To Drugs, Says Study - Science Daily, 2/21/08
• Personalized Medicine Can Cut Breast Cancer Risk - Science Daily, 2/19/08
• Patients, Doctors, Overrate DCIS Risk - Science Daily, 2/12/08
• Metformin May Have Novel Role as Breast Cancer Drug - oncologystat.com - "In one recent hypothesis-generating metformin study, Dr. Josie M.M. Evans and coworkers at the University of Dundee (Scotland) evaluated roughly 11,876 patients with newly diagnosed type 2 diabetes, of whom 923 were subsequently diagnosed with cancer. The adjusted relative risk of malignancy in long-term metformin users was reduced by 44%, compared with nonusers ... In another population-based cohort study ... In another population-based cohort study, investigators at the Institute of Health Economics, Edmonton, Alta., identified 10,309 Saskatchewanians with type 2 diabetes. During an average of 5.4 years of follow-up after their diagnosis, 407 cancer-related deaths occurred. Cancer mortality was 3.5% in metformin users, 5.8% in insulin users, and 4.9% in individuals on sulfonylurea monotherapy. After adjustment in a multivariate Cox regression analysis, cancer-related mortality was 30% greater in sulfonylurea users than in metformin users. In insulin users, it was 90% higher than in metformin users" - See Metformin at OffshoreRx1.com.
• Acrylamide In Food May Increase The Risk Of Breast Cancer - Science Daily, 1/11/08 - "Acrylamide is a chemical formed when frying, roasting, grilling or baking carbohydrate-rich foods at temperatures above 120°C. Acrylamide is thus found in a number of foods, such as bread, crisps, French fries and coffee. Tobacco smoking also generates substantial amounts of acrylamide ... The risk of breast cancer doubles with a tenfold increase in the acrylamide-haemoglobin level. A tenfold increase in the acrylamide-haemoglobin level corresponds more or less to the difference measured between the women with the lowest and highest exposure"
• Breast Cancer: Know the Surgery Options - WebMD, 12/21/07
• Technology Helps Increase Breast Tissue After Partial Mastectomy - Doctor's Guide, 12/17/07
• Agent Reduces Breast Cancer Risk in Two Groups of Women - Physician's Weekly Article, 12/17/07 - "raloxifene hydrochloride reduced the risk of invasive breast cancer by 44% to 71% by blocking estrogen receptors in the breast"
• Survey Underscores Importance Of Emotional/educational Needs Among Women With Advanced Breast Cancer - Science Daily, 12/16/07
• Even Tiny Breast Tumors Can Be Aggressive And May Require Maximum Therapy - Science Daily, 12/16/07
• Drug Combination Shrinks Breast Cancer Metastases In Brain - Science Daily, 12/16/07
• Drugs Cut Bone Loss of Hormone Therapy - WebMD, 12/14/07
• Test Spots Women Who Can Skip Chemo - WebMD, 12/13/07
• Shorter Breast Cancer Treatment Works - WebMD, 12/13/07
• Studies: Many breast cancer patients can skip chemo - USATODAY.com, 12/13/07
• Staying slim improves improves breast cancer survival - USATODAY.com, 12/7/07
• Cryotherapy Offers Good Local Control of Small Breast Cancer - Doctor's Guide, 11/26/07
• Immune System May Make or Break Cancer - WebMD, 11/19/07
• Drug Found Effective In Treating, Preventing Breast Cancer - Science Daily, 11/1/07
• Extra Radiation Dose Prevents Breast Cancer Return In Young Women, Study Suggests - Science Daily, 10/29/07
• Women With Breast Cancer Have Less Dermatitis When Treated With IMRT - Science Daily, 10/28/07
• Young Women Suffering From Breast Cancer Do Not Necessarily Benefit From Chemotherapy - Science Daily, 10/11/07
• Breast Cancer Linked To Pesticide DDT, Study Suggests - Science Daily, 10/9/07
• Alcohol Amount, Not Type -- Wine, Beer, Liquor -- Triggers Breast Cancer - Science Daily, 9/27/07 - "women who drank between one and two alcoholic drinks per day increased their risk of breast cancer by 10 percent compared with light drinkers who drank less than one drink a day. The risk of breast cancer increased by 30 percent in women who drank more than three drinks a day"
• Weekly Dose Of Osteoporosis Drug Prevents Bone Loss After Breast Cancer Treatment - Science Daily, 9/18/07
• Chemotherapy May Be Culprit for Fatigue In Breast Cancer Survivors - Doctor's Guide, 9/10/07
• Low Breast Cancer Pill Use Ups Death - WebMD, 9/6/07
• Hypnosis Reduces Pain And Costs In Breast Cancer Surgery - Science Daily, 8/28/07
• Dense Breasts, Hormone Levels Are Two Separate, Independent Risk Factors For Breast Cancer - Science Daily, 8/20/07
• Newer Breast Cancer Drugs Aid Survival - WebMD, 7/24/07
• FDA Panel OKs Evista for Breast Cancer - WebMD, 7/24/07
• High Testosterone Linked to Worse Breast Cancer Prognosis - Medscape, 7/18/07
• Grapefruit link to breast cancer - BBC News, 7/16/07 - "eating just a quarter of a grapefruit daily raised the risk by up to 30% ... The fruit is thought to boost levels of oestrogen - the hormone associated with a higher risk of the disease"
• Meat, Sweets Boost Breast Cancer Risk - WebMD, 7/10/07 - "A meat-sweet diet raised the risk [of breast cancer] by 60% in postmenopausal women ... it would be prudent at the minimum to stay away from a diet heavy in meat, processed grains, sweets, and desserts"
• 'Genius Pill' Relieves Chemobrain - WebMD, 6/5/07 - "Provigil seems to boost brainpower without causing the jittery, restless feelings induced by amphetamines ... after just four weeks, women could recall faster and more accurately recognize words and pictures. By eight weeks, attention deficits improved and memory was even better" - See Modafinil at International Anti-aging Systems or OffshoreRx1.com.
• Breast cancer study: Use less radiation - USA Today, 6/3/07
• Many Factors Causing Breast Cancer Drop - WebMD, 5/3/07
• Decrease In Breast Cancer Rates Likely Reflect HRT Reduction And Saturation Of Mammography - Science Daily, 5/3/07
• Drinking 'fuels growth of tumour' - BBC News, 5/1/07
• Vaccine May Help Fight Breast Cancer - WebMD, 4/18/07
• Chemo Before Breast Cancer Surgery OK - WebMD, 4/18/07
• Strong Link Between Breast Cancer And Hormone Replacement Therapy Found - Science Daily, 4/18/07 - "At best, based on this analysis, an individual woman could reduce her individual risk of developing breast cancer by one in 60, or about 1.7 percent, if she stopped using hormones"
• Breast Cancer Vaccine Stimulates Potent Immune Response To Cancer Cells - Science Daily, 4/17/07
• MRI Proposed for Women With High Breast Cancer Risk - WebMD, 3/28/07
• High-Fat Diet Linked to Breast Cancer - WebMD, 3/20/07 - "Compared with women whose diets averaged 20% of calories from fat, women who derived roughly 40% of their calories from fat sources had a 15% increased risk for developing breast cancer"
• Switching to Aromatase Inhibitors After Tamoxifen Improves Survival - Medscape, 2/12/07
• Vinflunine/Capecitabine Combo Shows Favorable Results in Progressive Breast Cancer - Doctor's Guide, 2/8/07
• FDA OKs Breast Cancer Recurrence Test - WebMD, 2/6/07
• Hormone Drug Type Makes Survival Difference In Advanced Breast Cancer - Science Daily, 2/1/07
• Finding the Best Breast Cancer Surgeon - WebMD, 1/18/07
• Breast Density, Cancer Link? - WebMD, 1/17/07
• Test Predicts Breast Cancer Recurrence - WebMD, 12/19/06
• Low Risk of Recurrence After 5 Years in Ductal Carcinoma in Situ Lumpectomy Without Radiation - Doctor's Guide, 12/18/06
• Red meat raises breast cancer risk - MSNBC, 11/13/06 - "Women who ate more than 1½ servings of red meat per day were almost twice as likely to develop hormone-related breast cancer as those who ate fewer than three portions per week"
• New Breast Cancer Therapy Has Benefits - WebMD, 11/8/06
• Chemo Combo May Beat Breast Cancer - WebMD, 11/1/06
• Drug Combination Significantly Improves Outcomes in Breast Cancer - Medscape, 10/12/06
• Ibandronate (Bondronat) Excellent Treatment Option for Metastatic Bone Pain - Doctor's Guide, 10/3/06
• Once-Weekly Epoietin Manages Anemia in Breast Cancer Patients Receiving Chemotherapy - Doctor's Guide, 10/1/06
• New Breast Cancer Drugs Beat Tamoxifen - WebMD, 9/20/06
• Aromatase Inhibitors: A Treatment Of Choice For Advanced Breast Cancer Patients - Science Daily, 9/20/06
• Raloxifene Reduces Breast Cancer Risk in Postmenopausal Women at All Risk Levels - Doctor's Guide, 9/13/06 - "use of raloxifene was associated with a 58 percent reduction in breast cancer risk in women without a family history of the disease, and an 89 percent reduction in risk for women with a family history of breast cancer" - See raloxifene at OffshoreRx1.com.
• Cytogen Launches First Oral Liquid Formulation of Hormonal Therapy for Breast Cancer Patients - Doctor's Guide, 8/17/06
• Significant Advance in Treatment of Breast Cancer Reported - Doctor's Guide, 7/10/06
• Sequence of Therapies Is Not Associated with Improved Survival for Patients with Inflammatory Breast Cancer - Doctor's Guide, 7/4/06
• Gemcitabine Enhances Vinorelbine in Metastatic Breast Cancer - Doctor's Guide, 6/6/06
• Every-3-Week Schedule of Docetaxel Yields Higher Response Rate than Weekly Schedule - Doctor's Guide, 6/6/06
• Lapatinib Plus Capecitabine Nearly Doubles Time to Progression in Advanced Breast Cancer - Doctor's Guide, 6/4/06
• Breast MRI Can Be Cost-Effective For Some Women at High-Risk of Cancer - Doctor's Guide, 5/26/06
• Obesity Boosts Risk of Breast Cancer - WebMD, 5/22/06
• Breast Conservation a Good Option for Non-Invasive, 'Early' Breast Cancer, U-M Study Shows - Doctor's Guide, 5/4/06
• Breast Reconstruction - Medscape, 4/24/06
• Osteoporosis Drug Raloxifene Shown to Be as Effective as Tamoxifen in Preventing Invasive Breast Cancer - Doctor's Guide, 4/17/06
• Newer Chemotherapies Improve Outcomes for Some Types of Breast Cancer - Doctor's Guide, 4/12/06
• Breast Cancers: Which Need Chemo? - WebMD, 4/11/06
• Routine Breast Cancer Screening With Ultrasound Not Recommended - Doctor's Guide, 4/11/06
• Sentinel Lymph Node Surgery Appropriate for Male Breast Cancer - Doctor's Guide, 4/10/06
• Cryo-Assisted Tumor Localization Better for Partial Mastectomy - Doctor's Guide, 4/10/06
• Intraoperative Radiotherapy Boost Reduces Breast Cancer Recurrence - Doctor's Guide, 4/10/06
• Partial Breast Irradiation Successful for Ductal Carcinoma In Situ - Doctor's Guide, 4/10/06
• Paclitaxel-Bevacizumab Combination Prolongs Progression-Free Survival in Advanced Breast Cancer - Doctor's Guide, 3/23/06
• More Routine Monitoring of Bone Density, Preventive Management, May Prevent Bone Loss During Breast Cancer Therapy - Doctor's Guide, 3/23/06
• Breast Asymmetry Points to Cancer Risk - WebMD, 3/20/06
• New Drugs Added to Breast Cancer Guidelines - Doctor's Guide, 3/13/06
• Some Benign Breast Lesions Could Be Dangerous - Science Daily, 2/28/06
• Bondronat Achieving Better Outcomes in Metastatic Breast Cancer - Doctor's Guide, 2/21/06
• Emerging Treatments in Breast Cancer - Physician's Weekly, 2/20/06
• New Cancer Treatment Targets Breast Ducts - HealthDay, 2/3/06
• Liposomal Doxorubicin Plus Cyclophosphamide Shows Promise in Advanced Breast Cancer - Doctor's Guide, 2/3/06
• Regular Use Of Selective COX-2 Inhibitors Decreases Risk Of Breast Cancer - Science Daily, 1/30/06 - "a daily dose of 200 mg celecoxib reduced the risk of breast cancer by 83% and a daily dose of 25 mg rofecoxib reduced the risk of breast cancer by 64%. Regular use of non-selective COX-2 inhibitors - aspirin (325 mg), ibuprofen (200mg) and naproxen (250 mg) - also significantly reduced the risk of breast cancer, but less so than regular intake of selective COX-2 inhibitors"
• Most Don't Rebuild Breast After Cancer - WebMD, 1/27/06
• New Cutting-Edge Treatments for Breast Cancer - ABC News, 1/25/06
• Breast Cancer: Topical Estrogen Risky - WebMD, 1/25/06
• Fatigue and Breast Cancer Survivors - Doctor's Guide, 1/9/06
• Shorter Radiation for Breast Cancer - WebMD, 1/4/06
• FDA Clears Xoft's Axxent Electronic Brachytherapy System for Treatment of Breast Cancer - Doctor's Guide, 1/4/06
• Interim Analysis of Phase 3 Study Shows Taxotere (docetaxel)-Based Regimens with Herceptin (trastuzumab) Significantly Improved Disease-Free Survival in Women with Early-Stage HER2-Positive Breast Cancer - Doctor's Guide, 12/16/05
• Radiotherapy after Lumpectomy Saves Lives - Doctor's Guide, 12/16/05
• Breast Cancer Radiation Ups Survival - WebMD, 12/15/05
• About Half of Women Facing Breast Cancer Surgery Require Psychiatric Intervention - Doctor's Guide, 12/13/05
• Pilot Study Shows Abraxane Safe and Effective in Sequence with Dose-Dense Doxorubicin and Cyclophosphamide - Doctor's Guide, 12/13/05
• Dose-Dense Chemotherapy Found More Effective than Standard Delivery Times - Doctor's Guide, 12/13/05
• Panel Revises Breast Cancer Treatment Guidelines - ABC News, 12/13/05
• Dose Dense Doxorubicin-Docetaxel Combination Comparable to Standard Doxorubicin-Cyclophosphamide-Docetaxel Regimen - Doctor's Guide, 12/13/05
• Taxotere/Cyclophosphamide Offers Greater Disease-Free Survival for Early Stage Breast Cancer Patients - Doctor's Guide, 12/13/05
• Taxane-Based Breast Cancer Treatment Cost-Effective Compared to 5-fluorouracil-Based Therapy - Doctor's Guide, 12/13/05
• Neoadjuvant Docetaxel, Doxorubicin and Capecitabine Used in Women with Locally Advanced or Inflammatory Disease - Doctor's Guide, 12/13/05
• Ritalin Conjugate Used to Treat "Chemo-Brain" in Breast Cancer Patients - Doctor's Guide, 12/13/05
• Fewer Breast Cancer Patients to Get Chemo - Intelihealth, 12/12/05
• Low-dose Chemotherapy Plus Antiangiogenesis Drug Has Activity In Advanced Breast Cancer - Doctor's Guide, 12/12/05
• Bortezomib (Velcade) and Capecitabine (Xeloda) in Combination Generally Safe for Patients with Metastatic Breast Cancer - Doctor's Guide, 12/9/05
• Radiation Therapy Greatly Reduces Risk of Local Recurrence, Does Not Affect Overall Survival after Ductal Carcinoma in Situ - Doctor's Guide, 12/9/05
• Metronomic Therapy Appears Useful in Advanced Breast Cancer Patients - Doctor's Guide, 12/8/05
• Women with Breast Cancer Face Increased Risk of Developing a Second Cancer - Doctor's Guide, 12/8/05
• Dose-dense Chemotherapy For Early Breast Cancer Found Safe, Similar To Standard Regimen - Science Daily, 12/7/05
• Study Demonstrates Role Of Exercise In Modifying Melatonin Levels; Increase Believed To Offer Breast Cancer Protection - Science Daily, 12/3/05
• Breast CT More Comfortable, May Detect Tumors Better - Doctor's Guide, 12/2/05
• Alcohol Raises Risk of Specific Breast Cancers - WebMD, 11/1/05
• Ibandronate Lessens Bone Pain in Metastatic Breast Cancer - Doctor's Guide, 10/31/05
• Post-Mastectomy Radiation May Cause Skin Toxicity and Pain - Doctor's Guide, 10/31/05
• Clodronate Shows Protective Skeletal Effect in Primary Breast Cancer - Doctor's Guide, 10/31/05
• Psychological and Social Impacts of Contralateral Prophylactic Mastectomies - Doctor's Guide, 10/29/05
• Magnetic Resonance Imaging Scans Find Missed Breast Lesions in Lumpectomy Candidates - Doctor's Guide, 10/21/05
• Targeted Drug May Change Breast Cancer Care - WebMD, 10/19/05
• Breast Cancer Diagnosis Does Not Mean Breast Implants Have to Go - Doctor's Guide, 10/19/05
• Doctors Question Use of Aromatase Inhibition after 5 Years of Tamoxifen in Most Breast Cancer Patients - Doctor's Guide, 10/19/05
• Targeted Radiation Cuts Breast Cancer Relapse - WebMD, 10/18/05
• Digital Breast Screening Best for Many Women - WebMD, 9/16/05
• How hormones can affect breast cancer risk - MSNBC, 9/9/05 - "Research also consistently links high levels of the hormone insulin and insulin-like growth factors with increased rates of breast cancer, at least after menopause"
• Obese Breast Cancer Patients: How Much Chemo? - WebMD, 8/23/05
• Less Extensive Biopsy Method Helps Diagnose Cancer Progression of Large Breast Tumors - Doctor's Guide, 8/23/05
• Many Choose Aggressive Breast Cancer Surgery Despite Options - Doctor's Guide, 8/19/05
• Benign breast lumps don't raise long-term risk - MSNBC, 7/20/05
• Bisphosphonates - a Successful Treatment for Metastatic Bone Disease Associated With Breast Cancer - Doctor's Guide, 7/15/05
• Interleukin 10 May Have Protective Effect Against Breast Cancer - Doctor's Guide, 6/7/05
• Finely tuned diagnoses and targeted drugs create optimism about surviving breast cancer - USNews.com, 6/13/05
• Breast Cancer Easier To Miss In Women On HRT - CBS 2 Chicago, 5/25/05 - "found an increased chance that cancer may be missed among women on HRT. That may be because some of their breast tissue is more dense, making the cancer more difficult to find"
• Statin Use Linked to 51% Reduction in Breast Cancer - Medscape, 5/20/05 - "The beneficial effect is seen in more than four years of statin use ... In both the prostate and lung cancer studies, there was a 48% to 54% risk reduction in cancer associated with statin use" - See Lipitor at SuperSaverMeds.com.
• Doxorubicin/Cyclophosphamide as Effective as Doxorubicin/Docetaxel (AT) for Early-stage Breast Cancer - Doctor's Guide, 5/16/05
• Low-Fat Diet May Cut Return of Breast Cancer - WebMD, 5/16/05 - "At five years, less than 10% of those on the low-fat diet had their cancer recur. Twelve percent of the women who continued on their usual diet had cancer recurrence during this time. This translates to about a 24% reduction in risk"
• Regular Alcohol Intake Ups Breast Cancer Risk - WebMD, 5/16/05 - "Women who drank a glass or two a day faced a 21% increased risk of breast cancer ... Those who drank more than two drinks a day were 37% more likely to develop breast cancer ... the risk was much greater in menopausal women"
• Breast Cancer Treatments Up Long-Term Survival - WebMD, 5/12/05
• Hormone May Cut Breast Cancer Cells' Spread - WebMD, 5/3/05
• Breast-cancer Risk Linked To Exposure To Traffic Emissions At Menarche, First Birth - Science Daily, 4/30/05 - "higher exposure around the time of first menstruation to polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), potential carcinogens found in traffic emissions, was associated with increased risk of premenopausal breast cancer"
• Herceptin (Trastuzumab) Appears to Offer Significant Improvement in Disease-Free Survival for Women With Early-Stage HER2-Positive Breast Cancer - Doctor's Guide, 4/28/05
• Drug helps fight return of breast cancer - MSNBC, 4/26/05
• Herceptin (Trastuzumab) Combined With Chemotherapy Improves Disease-Free Survival for Patients With Early-Stage Breast Cancer - Doctor's Guide, 4/26/05
• New Recommendations for Aromatase Inhibitor Therapy for Breast Cancer - Doctor's Guide, 4/20/05
• Pregnancy Hormone May Prevent Breast Cancer - WebMD, 4/19/05
• Multimodal Therapy Effective for Women With Limited Breast Cancer Recurrence - Doctor's Guide, 4/19/05
• Breast Cancer Therapy Involves More Than Just Following Guidelines - Doctor's Guide, 4/19/05
• Palonosetron (Aloxi) Reduces Impact of Chemotherapy-induced Nausea and Vomiting on Daily Life in Women With Breast Cancer - Doctor's Guide, 4/19/05
• Surgeon's Location and Affiliations Linked With Women's Surgical Options for Breast Cancer - Doctor's Guide, 4/15/05
• Increased Surveillance Needed After Benign Breast Biopsies - Doctor's Guide, 4/15/05
• Avastin (Bevacizumab, rhuMAb-VEGF) Plus Chemotherapy Appears to Produce Significant Benefit in First-Line Metastatic Breast Cancer - Doctor's Guide, 4/15/05
• Unexpected Benefit Seen in Treating HER-2 Breast Cancer With New Preoperative Drug Combo - Doctor's Guide, 3/30/05
• Ablative Modalities Show Promise in Breast Cancer Treatment - Doctor's Guide, 3/28/05
• Results Encouraging for Cryoablation of Small Breast Tumors - Doctor's Guide, 3/28/05
• Aromatase Inhibitors Show Promise As Adjuvant Therapy - Doctor's Guide, 3/28/05
• Study Shows Acrylamide In Baked And Fried Foods Does Not Increase Risk Of Breast Cancer In Women - Science Daily, 3/24/05
• Cryoablation Shows Promise in Managing Fibroadenomas - Doctor's Guide, 3/22/05
• Small Lesions on Magnetic Resonance Imaging Usually Benign - Doctor's Guide, 3/22/05
• Biopsy Type Does Not Affect Risk of Micrometastasis in Patients With Breast Cancer - Doctor's Guide, 3/21/05
• Breast Cancer Radiation Has Become Safer - WebMD, 3/15/05
• Postmenopausal Breast Cancer Survivors at Increased Risk for Bone Fractures - Doctor's Guide, 3/14/05
• Closing In On A Vaccine For Breast Cancer - Science Daily, 3/14/05
• Underactive Thyroid Cuts Breast Cancer Risk - WebMD, 2/14/05 - "an underactive thyroid was shown to protect against developing breast cancer. The study also showed that women who developed breast cancer and who had an underactive thyroid had a less aggressive disease compared with women with a normally functioning thyroid"
• Women With Hypothyroidism Appear to Have Lower Risk of Breast Cancer - Doctor's Guide, 2/14/05
• Herceptin With Weekly Taxol and Platinum Show Positive Results in First-Line Treatment in HER2-Positive Metastatic Breast Cancer - Doctor's Guide, 2/3/05
• Benefit Seen With Zoledronic Acid for Prevention of Skeletal Complications or Bone Loss in Women With Breast Cancer - Doctor's Guide, 2/3/05
• Magnetic Resonance Imaging Better Than Mammography or Ultrasound for Women at High Risk for Breast Cancer - Doctor's Guide, 1/31/05
• Multinational Study Finds Patient Satisfaction Following Cryoablation of Benign Breast Tumors to be 92% - Doctor's Guide, 1/20/05
• FDA Issues Approvable Letter for Bonefos (Clodronate) for Adjuvant Treatment of Breast Cancer - Doctor's Guide, 1/7/05
• Some Breast Cancers May Not Need Chemo - WebMD, 12/29/04
• Breast Reconstruction Safe in the Long Term - WebMD, 12/22/04
• The Role of the Aromatase Inhibitors in Early-Stage Breast Cancer: An Expert Interview With Eric Winer, MD - Medscape, 12/20/04
• Sentinel Node Biopsy Reduces Morbidity - Doctor's Guide, 12/17/04
• Clodronate Reduces Morbidity Even Among Patients With Breast Cancer Relapse - Doctor's Guide, 12/14/04
• Menstrual Cycle Phase Does Not Affect Breast Cancer Surgery Outcome - Doctor's Guide, 12/14/04
• GEMOX Treatment Controls Disease in Half of Women With Advanced Breast Cancer - Doctor's Guide, 12/14/04
• Acellular Tissue Matrix Used for Immediate Breast Reconstruction - Doctor's Guide, 12/14/04
• Darbepoetin Found Similar to Epoetin in More Convenient Regimen for Treating Anemia in Breast Cancer - Doctor's Guide, 12/13/04
• Sentinel Node Biopsy Proves 97% Accurate in Largest Randomized Trial to Date - Doctor's Guide, 12/13/04
• Pegfilgrastrim Prevents Chemotherapy-Associated Febrile Neutropenia - Doctor's Guide, 12/13/04
• Pre-Menopausal Women With Advanced Breast Cancer Treated With Goserelin/Anastrozole Therapy - Doctor's Guide, 12/13/04
• Erythropoetin Improves Quality of Life, Not Cognition in Breast Cancer Patients - Doctor's Guide, 12/13/04
• Test Could Spare Women From Chemotherapy - WebMD, 12/10/04
• Arthritis Drug May Prevent Breast Cancer - WebMD, 12/10/04
• Intensive Chemotherapy, Mastectomy Improve Outcomes in Inflammatory Breast Cancer - Doctor's Guide, 12/10/04
• Taxanes May Protect against Chemotherapy-Related Amenorrhea - Doctor's Guide, 12/10/04
• New Test Better Predicts Breast Cancer Spread - WebMD, 12/9/04
• Boosting Tumor Suppressor Gene Helps Reduce Breast Cancer Tumor Size Prior to Surgery - Doctor's Guide, 12/9/04
• Estrogen-Positive Breast Cancer Patients Have Better Outcomes With Chemoendocrine Therapy Rather Than Tamoxifen Alone - Doctor's Guide, 12/9/04
• Taxane-Refractory Breast Cancer Responds to Nanoparticle Albumin Paclitaxel (Abraxane) - Doctor's Guide, 12/9/04
• Zoledronic Acid Counteract Treatment-Related Bone Loss - Doctor's Guide, 12/9/04
• Hormonal Therapy Alone May Not Be Sufficient Treatment in Breast Cancer - Doctor's Guide, 12/8/04
• New Molecular Classification Of Breast Cancer Predicts Response To Chemotherapy - Doctor's Guide, 12/8/04
• Advance in breast cancer treatment - BBC News, 12/8/04
• MRI Shows Breast Tumors, but Biopsy Needed - WebMD, 12/7/04
• Breast Magnetic Resonance Imaging Moderately Useful For Detecting Breast Cancer, But Does Not Eliminate Need For Biopsy - Doctor's Guide, 12/7/04
• Magnetic Resonance Detects Breast Cancers Not Observed With Mammography - Doctor's Guide, 12/3/04
• Breast Conserving Therapy Safe For Hereditary Breast Cancer - Science Daily, 12/2/04
• Low levels of HDL cholesterol linked to breast cancer risk - US News, 12/1/04 - "Women with high HDL levels were 25 percent less likely to get postmenopausal breast cancer than women with low HDL cholesterol. The difference was even bigger for women who were overweight"
• Osteoporosis Drug May Cut Breast Cancer Risk - WebMD, 11/30/04
• TRAM Flap Procedure Restores Breasts Of Cancer Patients - Science Daily, 11/23/04
• Breast Cancer Gene: Can the Breast Be Saved? - WebMD, 11/22/04
• Breast Conserving Treatment Reasonable Option for Women With Hereditary Breast Cancer - Doctor's Guide, 11/22/04
• Women Appear to Prefer Endocrine Treatment With Zoladex (Goserelin) to Chemotherapy for Treatment of Early Breast Cancer - Doctor's Guide, 11/16/04
• New Breast Cancer Drugs May Beat Tamoxifen - WebMD, 11/15/04
• Aromatase Inhibitors Now Recommended as Adjuvant Therapy for Postmenopausal Women With Early Breast Cancer - Doctor's Guide, 11/15/04
• Arthritis Drug May Shrink Breast Cancers - WebMD, 11/5/04
• Test Predicts Breast Cancer Spread - WebMD, 11/2/04
• Epoetin Alfa Provides Faster, Stronger Response in Anemic Patients at Lower Cost Than Darbepoetin - Doctor's Guide, 11/1/04
• New Radiotherapy Regime Benefits Young Women With Breast Cancer - Doctor's Guide, 10/26/04
• Fertility an Issue for Breast Cancer Patients - WebMD, 10/14/04
• Blood Test May Help Set Breast Cancer Treatment - Doctor's Guide, 10/12/04
• Mammograms Not as Reliable for Younger Women - WebMD, 10/5/04
• Magnetic Resonance Imaging Better Than Mammography for Detecting Additional Disease in Women With Breast Cancer - Doctor's Guide, 9/28/04
• Support Groups May Not Beat Breast Cancer - WebMD, 9/28/04
• Obesity Raises Breast Cancer Death Risks - WebMD, 9/21/04
• Immediate Breast Reconstruction After Mastectomy Does Not Delay Chemotherapy - Doctor's Guide, 9/21/04
• New Breast Cancer Vaccine Passes First Hurdle - WebMD, 9/14/04
• High-Risk Women: MRI Shows More Breast Cancer - WebMD, 9/14/04
• When Mammography Isn’t Enough - Physician's Weekly, 9/6/04
• Breast Cancer Patients May Not Need Radiation - WebMD, 9/1/04
• Study Finds Immune Therapy For Metastatic Breast Cancer Possible - Science Daily, 9/1/04
• Lifestyle May Affect Mammogram Accuracy - WebMD, 8/26/04
• Tumor Cell Levels in Blood Predict Success of Advanced-stage Breast Cancer Treatment - Doctor's Guide, 8/19/04
• Speedier Look at Advanced Breast Cancer - WebMD, 8/18/04
• The Telomere Crisis: A Crucial Stage In Breast Cancer - Science Daily, 8/11/04
• Experience Counts in Breast Cancer Surgery - WebMD, 8/9/04
• High-Carb Diet Linked to Breast Cancer - WebMD, 8/6/04
• Study Links High Carbohydrate Diet To Increased Breast Cancer Risk - Science Daily, 8/6/04 - "those who derived 57 or more percent of their total energy intake from carbohydrates incurred a risk of breast cancer 2.2 times higher than women with more balanced diets"
• Ellence (Epirubicin) Based Chemotherapy Regimen Has Survival Benefits With Low Risk Of Adverse Cardiac Events - Doctor's Guide, 8/3/04
• Emerging Research May Elucidate Treatment Approaches for Breast Cancer Patients with Bone Metastases - Doctor's Guide, 7/30/04
• Emerging Cytotoxic Therapies, Combinations Showing Promise in Refractory, Resistant Breast Cancer - Doctor's Guide, 7/29/04
• MRI Beats Mammogram for Women at High Risk - WebMD, 7/28/04
• Breast Cancer Research Has Several Promising Treatments in the Pipeline - Doctor's Guide, 7/28/04
• CD-ROM Helps Women Check Breast Cancer Risk - WebMD, 7/27/04
• Efaproxiral May Extend Survival, Improve Quality of Life in Breast Cancer Patients with Brain Metastases - Doctor's Guide, 7/27/04
• New Options for Breast Cancer - WebMD, 7/22/04
• Alternate Technologies Could Save More Women's Lives - Doctor's Guide, 7/22/04
• Brachytherapy May Save Breast, Decrease Treatment Time - Doctor's Guide, 7/22/04
• Ablation Therapy May Destroy Breast Cancer Without Scarring - Doctor's Guide, 7/22/04
• Breastfeeding and Cancer in High-Risk Women - WebMD, 7/20/04
• Aggressive Breast Cancer Linked to Virus - WebMD, 7/12/04
• Balloon Brachytherapy Appears Acceptable as Adjuvant Breast Cancer Therapy in Select Patients After Lumpectomy - Doctor's Guide, 6/17/04
• Women Facing 'Crisis' in Mammographies - WebMD, 6/10/04
• Trial Confirms Efficacy of Weekly Paclitaxel for Metastatic Breast Cancer - Doctor's Guide, 6/10/04
• Adding Carboplatin to Paclitaxel and Trastuzumab Improves Response Rates in HER-2 Positive Breast Cancer - Doctor's Guide, 6/9/04
• Survival Advantage Seen With Gemcitabine/Paclitaxel (Gemzar/Taxol) Compared With Gemcitabine Alone for Treatment of Metastatic Breast Cancer - Doctor's Guide, 6/8/04
• Long-Term Raloxifene Associated With Halving of Breast-Cancer Risk in Post-menopausal Women - Doctor's Guide, 6/8/04
• Oral Bisphosphonate Prolongs Survival in Patients With Breast Cancer - Doctor's Guide, 6/7/04
• Osteoporosis Drug May Prevent Breast Cancer - WebMD, 6/7/04
• Cardiotoxicity Limited in Liposomal Doxorubicin-Trastuzumab Combination Therapy - Doctor's Guide, 6/6/04
• Pegylated Liposomal Doxorubicin-Docetaxel Combination Is Promising First-Line Treatment in Patients With Metastatic Breast Cancer - Doctor's Guide, 6/3/04
• Breast Reduction Diminishes Breast Cancer in High-Risk Women - Doctor's Guide, 6/1/04
• Mammograms Less Accurate in Obese Women - WebMD, 5/24/04
• Docetaxel, Platinum, Plus Trastuzumab Effective in HER2-Positive Advanced Breast Cancer - Medscape, 5/19/04
• Obesity Increases Breast Cancer Risk - WebMD, 5/17/04
• Cryosurgery Successful At Treating Some Early-Stage Breast Cancer - Doctor's Guide, 5/6/04
• Cholesterol Drugs: Cancer Fighters? - WebMD, 4/26/04 - "taking statins appeared to decrease the risk of breast cancer by 30% in postmenopausal women"
• Concurrent Chemo and Radiation Therapy Appears Safe and Effective in Patients with Early-Stage Breast Carcinoma - Doctor's Guide, 4/14/04
• BRCA-Positive Women May Need More Mammograms - WebMD, 4/12/04
• New Treatment May Zap Early Breast Cancers - Doctor's Guide, 3/30/04
• Ultrasound-Guided Radiofrequency Ablation Helpful in Small Breast Cancers - Medscape, 3/30/04
• Breast Cancer Effects on Physical, Emotional and Psychological Wellbeing Remain Up to 10 Years Later - Doctor's Guide, 3/23/04
• Early Breast Cancer Growth Tough To Treat - Intelihealth, 3/22/04
• Breast Conservation Surgery Safe for Patients With BRCA Mutations - Doctor's Guide, 3/22/04
• Local Excision and Mastectomy Have Equal Survival Rates for Ductal Carcinoma in Situ - Doctor's Guide, 3/22/04
• Gemcitabine-Epirubicin-Paclitaxel Effective as Primary Chemotherapy Stage II-IIIA Operable Breast Cancer - Doctor's Guide, 3/22/04
• Preoperative Chemotherapy Extends Breast Conservation Surgery, Expedites Finding Most Effective Agents for Patients' Cancer Types - Doctor's Guide, 3/22/04
• Treatment for Women With Late-Stage Breast Cancer More Effective, Less Costly With Fluorescence In Situ Hybridization Diagnostic Technology - Doctor's Guide, 3/22/04
• Menopause Changes Density of Breast Tissue and May Complicate Mammography Readings - Doctor's Guide, 2/18/04
• Breast Self-Examination Does Not Reduce Breast Cancer Mortality - Doctor's Guide, 3/18/04
• Breast Conservation Surgery Safe With BRCA1 Breast Cancer - Medscape, 3/18/04
• Wine, Fat Intake Linked to Breast Cancer - WebMD, 3/17/04 - "women who drank about 1.5 glasses of wine a day were twice as likely to develop breast cancer compared with women who drank less ... drinking women can mitigate this risk by taking a multivitamin Containing folic acid every day ... women who gain 20 to 30 pounds after high school have a 40% increase in breast cancer risk"
• Women Maintaining Younger-Looking Breasts - WebMD, 3/17/04
• Measure Estrogen Receptor Status in DCIS - Doctor's Guide, 3/15/04
• New Breast Cancer Guidelines Include Changes to Adjuvant Therapy in Invasive Disease - Doctor's Guide, 3/15/04
• Exemestane After Tamoxifen May Improve Disease-Free Survival for Postmenopausal Women with Primary Breast Cancer Over Tamoxifen Alone - Doctor's Guide, 3/10/04
• Problems Linger After Breast Cancer Treatment - WebMD, 3/2/04
• Weight Gain May Increase Breast Cancer Risk - WebMD, 2/26/04
• Anaemia Significant Problem in Early Breast Cancer Prior To, During Chemotherapy - Doctor's Guide, 2/16/04
• Nipple-Sparing Mastectomy Is Possible - WebMD, 2/12/04
• Nipple-Sparing Mastectomy Reasonable Option for Carefully Screened Patients - Doctor's Guide, 2/10/04
• Computer-Aided Mammograms No Better - WebMD, 2/3/04
• HRT Raises Breast Cancer Recurrence Risk - WebMD, 2/2/04
• Promising Early Results with First-Line Gemcitabine-Epirubicin-Paclitaxel Chemotherapy in Metastatic Breast Cancer - Doctor's Guide, 1/27/04
• Zoledronate Appears More Effective Than Pamidronate in Breast Carcinoma Patients With At Least One Osteolytic Lesion - Doctor's Guide, 1/8/04
• Whole-Breast Irradiation Improves Cancer Survival - Physician's Weekly, 1/5/04
• Less Aggressive Breast Cancer Surgery OK - WebMD, 12/29/03
• Breast Cancers Are Commonly Undertreated - WebMD, 12/15/03
• More Than Half of Early Stage Breast Cancer Patients May Not Receive Full Recommended Dose of Chemotherapy - Doctor's Guide, 12/15/03
• Emend (Aprepitant) Significantly Improved Control of Chemotherapy-Induced Nausea and Vomiting in both Women and Men - Doctor's Guide, 12/10/03
• Breast-Conserving Surgery Produces Survival Rate Similar to Mastectomy for Paget's Disease Confined to Nipple-Areolar Area - Doctor's Guide, 12/8/03
• TAC Regimen Superior to FAC for Early Breast Cancer - Medscape, 12/8/03
• Post-Surgical Breast Reconstruction Also Safe for Women With More Advanced Disease - Doctor's Guide, 12/8/03
• Endocrine Therapy A Better Choice for Estrogen-Positive Tumors? - Doctor's Guide, 12/8/03
• Weekly Combination Therapy Safe for HER2+ Breast Cancer - Medscape, 12/5/03
• Lumpectomy for Large Breast Cancers? - WebMD, 12/5/03
• 2 Opinions Help Breast Cancer Diagnosis - WebMD, 12/5/03
• Gefitinib (Iressa, Zd1839) Demonstrates Early Promise in Advanced Breast Cancer - Doctor's Guide, 12/5/03
• Weekly Chemotherapy Schedule Safer Than Three-Week Schedule - Doctor's Guide, 12/5/03
• Contrast-Enhanced Magnetic Resonance Imaging Accurately Predicts Breast Cancer Response to Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy - Doctor's Guide, 12/5/03
• Pre-Surgical Chemotherapy Plus Breast-Conserving Surgery Has High Success Rate - Doctor's Guide, 12/5/03
• Navelbine-Herceptin Combo Appears Safe and Effective as First-Line Treatment For HER2-Positive Breast Cancer - Doctor's Guide, 12/5/03
• Accelerated Chemotherapy Regimen Improves Survival in Younger Women - Doctor's Guide, 12/4/03
• Women Prefer Goserelin over Standard Chemotherapy - Doctor's Guide, 12/4/03
• Breast Scanner May Find Cancer Earlier - WebMD, 12/4/03
• Drug Switch Staves Off Breast Cancer - WebMD, 12/3/03
• New Computerized Tool Predicts Chance of Breast Cancer's Spread - Doctor's Guide, 12/3/03
• Surgery Without Radiation Inadequate for Ductal Carcinoma In Situ, Study Reveals - Doctor's Guide, 12/4/03
• Etanercept Has Potential For Treating Metastatic Breast Cancer - Doctor's Guide, 11/24/03
• Alcohol May Increase Breast Cancer Risk - WebMD, 11/18/03
• Young Breast Cancer Patients Need Long-Term Follow-Up After Lumpectomies - Doctor's Guide, 11/6/03
• Women Diagnosed With Breast Cancer Should Stop HRT - Medscape, 11/3/03
• Breast Conservation Linked to Higher Long-term Risk of Local Breast Cancer Recurrence Than Mastectomy - Medscape, 11/3/03
• Early Lumpectomy Doesn't End Cancer Risk - WebMD, 11/3/03
• Breast Cancer Vaccine Shows Promise - WebMD, 10/28/03
• Smoking Cessation Confers Survival Advantage for Breast Cancer Patients - Doctor's Guide, 10/31/03
• Radiation Therapy Safe Before or After Breast Reconstruction - Doctor's Guide, 10/31/03
• Whole-Breast Irradiation May Offer Long-Term Benefits - Doctor's Guide, 10/31/03
• Diet High in Saturated Fat May Raise Risk of Breast Cancer - Doctor's Guide, 10/30/03
• Breast Cancer Vaccine Can Induce Long-term Immunity - Medscape, 10/25/03
• Breast Reconstruction OK Before Radiation - WebMD, 10/22/03
• Zoledronic Acid More Effective Than Pamidronate in Breast Carcinoma or Multiple Myeloma Patients With Bone Metastases - Doctor's Guide, 10/22/03
• Too Many Breast Cancer Tests? - WebMD, 10/21/03
• Pegfilgrastim Comparable in Safety to Filgrastim, Yet Allows More Convenient Dosing - Doctor's Guide, 10/13/03
• Two Adjuvant Treatments for High-Risk Breast Cancer Negatively Initially Affect Health-Related Quality of Life - Doctor's Guide, 10/7/03
• New Method Makes Mammography Better - WebMD, 9/30/03
• Gefitinib (Iressa) Shown to Prolong Survival, Improve Quality of Life in Women with Recurrent Metastatic Breast Cancer - Doctor's Guide, 9/29/03
• Tegafur-uracil (UFT) Plus Surgery Outperforms Surgery Alone in Node-negative Breast Cancer - Doctor's Guide, 9/29/03
• Does Stress Cause Breast Cancer? - WebMD, 9/24/03
• Hormone Therapy Said Cutting Death Rate From Prostate, Breast Cancer In Europe - Doctor's Guide, 9/23/03
• Laser Treatment Helpful in Postmastectomy Lymphedema - Medscape, 9/16/03
• Potential Relief from Fatigue in Breast Cancer Treatment - Physician's Weekly, 9/1/03 - "fatigued survivors had T-cell numbers that were 31% higher than those of non-fatigued survivors. Conversely, the two groups did not differ in the number of other types of immune cells"
• Contrast Digital Mammography Improves Mammography Results - Doctor's Guide, 8/26/03
• Focused Breast-Cancer Radiation Effective - WebMD, 8/19/03
• Obesity, Estrogen Linked to Breast Cancer - WebMD, 8/19/03
• Pregnancy After Breast Cancer Doesn't Increase Risks of Dying - WebMD, 8/11/03
• Sentinel-Node Biopsy Accurately Screens for Axillary Node Metastasis in Breast Cancer Patients - Doctor's Guide, 8/7/03
• Ductal Lavage Helps Determine Best Approach in Patients at High Risk for Breast Cancer - Doctor's Guide, 8/7/03
• Platinum Compounds May Become Adjuvant Therapy for Breast Cancer - Doctor's Guide, 8/7/03
• Breast-Preserving Therapy Effective for Metaplastic Breast Carcinoma - Doctor's Guide, 8/6/03
• Intensive Therapy Possible Alternative to Surgery for Breast Cancer - Doctor's Guide, 8/6/03
• Two New Antiemetics Help Control Chemotherapy-Induced Emesis - Doctor's Guide, 8/6/03
• Exemestane an Alternative for Neoadjuvant Treatment of Breast Cancer in Postmenopausal Women - Doctor's Guide, 8/5/03
• Epoetin Alpha Improves Quality Of Life And Functionality Of Breast Cancer Patients - Doctor's Guide, 8/5/03
• Breast Cancer Risk Increases with Consumption of Red Meat, Dairy Products - Doctor's Guide, 7/28/03 - "derived from the Nurses' Health Study (NHS) II ... total fat intake during premenopausal years was not associated with the risk of breast cancer. However, a significant association was found between animal fat intake and breast cancer risk"
• Additional Chemotherapy and Stem-Cell Transplantation Does Not Improve Outcome for Breast-Cancer Patients - Doctor's Guide, 7/21/03
• High-Fat Diet, Breast Cancer Linked - CBS News, 7/17/03 - "those who average more than 90 grams of fat a day have roughly double the risk of those who eat just 37 grams" - That's another area that hasn't been fully researched regarding the Atkin's diet.
• Radiotherapy After Excision Reduced Incidence of Ipsilateral Ductal Carcinoma in Situ, Tamoxifen Therapy Did Not - Doctor's Guide, 7/17/03
• Three New Studies Support MRI for Breast Cancer Detection - Physician's Weekly, 7/14/03
• Trend in Omitting Radiation Therapy in Breast Cancer Patients Exponentially Increases Relative Mortality Risk - Doctor's Guide, 7/3/03
• Studies challenge breast cancer treatment - USA Today, 7/2/03
• Trastuzumab Therapy Recommended for Breast Cancer Patients with HER-2 Overexpression - Doctor's Guide, 6/27/03
• Extra Checks For Breast Cancer In Pregnancy Needed - Doctor's Guide, 6/20/03
• New Contrast Agent Reveals Otherwise Undetectable Lymph-Node Metastases - Medscape, 6/18/03
• Early Breast Cancers Caught by MRI - WebMD, 6/16/03
• Study Links Common Indicator Of Early Puberty To Obesity, Breast Cancer - Doctor's Guide, 6/16/03
• Sequential Adjuvant Chemotherapy Does Not Increase Survival in Operable Breast Cancer Patients - Doctor's Guide, 6/12/03
• Male Breast Cancer Detected Later - WebMD, 6/6/03
• Study Of Twins Suggests Early Puberty Strongly Influences Age At Diagnosis Of Breast Cancer In Genetically - Doctor's Guide, 6/6/03
• Breast Cancer in Men Often Underestimated and Under-treated - Doctor's Guide, 6/4/03
• Magnetic Resonance Imaging Plus Mammograms Best for Women at High-Risk for Breast Cancer - Doctor's Guide, 6/3/03
• Magnetic Resonance Imaging Outperforms Mammography and Ultrasound in Detecting Breast Cancer in High-Risk Women - Doctor's Guide, 6/3/03
• High HER-2/neu Level Indicates Poor Prognosis in Breast Cancer Patients - Doctor's Guide, 6/3/03
• Is MRI Better Than Mammography? - WebMD, 6/2/03
• Gemcitabine, Epirubicin, Paclitaxel Combination No Better than 5-Fluorouracil, Epirubicin, Cyclophosphamide in Metastatic Breast Cancer - Doctor's Guide, 6/2/03
• BMS-247550 Demonstrates Activity In Metastatic Breast And Non-Small Cell Lung Cancers - Doctor's Guide, 6/2/03
• Magnetic Resonance Imaging Finds Missed Breast Cancers, but At a High Cost in False Positives - Doctor's Guide, 6/2/03
• Combining Two Standard Drugs Effective for Salvage Treatment in Metastatic Breast Cancer - Doctor's Guide, 6/2/03
• Gemzar (Gemcitabine) Combination Showed Significant Efficacy Advantage In Breast Cancer Study - Doctor's Guide, 6/2/03
• MRIs Help Detect Breast Lumps - CBS News, 5/30/01
• Tamoxifen Alone More Effective than With Ovarian Ablation for Node Negative Breast Cancer - Doctor's Guide, 6/1/03
• Adjuvant Chemotherapy Just as Effective for Older as Younger Breast Cancer Patients - Doctor's Guide, 6/1/03
• Mitoxantrone Linked to Hemopathy after Breast Cancer - Doctor's Guide, 6/1/03
• Tissue Engineered Skin Effective for Breast Wound Salvage - Doctor's Guide, 5/28/03
• Link Eyed Between Beef And Cancer - CBS News, 5/21/03 - "beef cattle are given growth hormones to make them fatter faster, to save money ... questions are being raised about one of the most widely-used hormones, Zeranol, a synthetic estrogen implanted in cattle. A series of tests done for the Pentagon show a possible link between breast cancer and Zeranol"
• Cancer Society Endorses Mammograms, Moves Away From Self-Exams - Intelihealth, 5/16/03
• 3D Mammography Promising As Next Breast Screening Technique - Doctor's Guide, 5/8/03
• Mammograms Read By Specialists Save Patients' Time And Money - Doctor's Guide, 5/8/03
• MRI Works for Breast Cancer Screening - WebMD, 5/7/03
• Magnetic Resonance Imaging Accurate In Detecting Residual Disease Following Lumpectomy - Doctor's Guide, 5/7/03
• Magnetic Resonance Imaging Should Be Considered For Breast Screening Of High Risk Women - Doctor's Guide, 5/6/03
• Whole Body Positron Emission Tomography Accurate in Detecting Breast Cancer Spread - Doctor's Guide, 5/5/03
• New Guidewire Converts Non-Palpable Breast Lesions Into Palpable Ring for Surgical Removal - Doctor's Guide, 5/5/03
• Single Catheter Balloon Provides Five-Day Radiation Treatment for Breast Cancer - Doctor's Guide, 5/5/03
• Ultrasound Core Breast Biopsy Shown to Negate Need for Excisional Breast Biopsy for Large Patient Population - Doctor's Guide, 5/5/03
• Ductal Lavage Useful for Women at High Risk of Breast Cancer - Medscape, 5/2/03
• Divided Vinorelbine With Methotrexate/Fluorouracil Effective In Metastatic Breast Cancer - Doctor's Guide, 4/29/03
• Mammography: Get It or Not? - WebMD, 4/23/03
• Research Uncovering Breast Cancer Risk Factors - Doctor's Guide, 4/15/03
• Accelerated Radiation Treatment For Early Stage Breast Cancer Into Clinical Settings - Doctor's Guide, 4/16/03
• New Directions in Adjuvant Chemotherapy for Breast Cancer - Doctor's Guide, 4/15/03
• Emphasis on Lymph Node Involvement May Fade in Breast Cancer Prognostication and Therapy Selection - Doctor's Guide, 4/15/03
• Granulocyte Colony Stimulating Factor Prevents Febrile Neutropenia in Breast Cancer Patients - Doctor's Guide, 4/14/03
• Underactive Thyroid Lowers Breast Cancer Risk - WebMD, 4/10/03
• Underactive Thyroid Appears To Reduce Breast Cancer Risk - Intelihealth, 4/8/03
• Sonography and Breast Cancer Detection - Physician's Weekly, 4/7/03
• Study: Tamoxifen Could Benefit 2 Million Women - Intelihealth, 4/2/03 - "Tamoxifen is a breast cancer treatment that also can cut by almost half a still-healthy woman's risk of developing the disease. Deciding to use it preventively is a tough choice, however, because tamoxifen can cause uterine cancer and potentially fatal blood clots" - #1 drugstore (no affiliation) usually has good prices on drugs that have gone generic.  Check with your doctor first.
• Genes Determine Breast Cancer, Density - WebMD, 4/1/03
• Pegfilgrastim, Filgrastim Similarly Associated With Bone Pain In Patients With Breast Cancer - Doctor's Guide, 4/1/03
• Epoetin Alfa May Keep Breast Cancer Patients Sharp - Clinical Psychiatry News, 4/03
• Continuous Infusion Of Vinorelbine Means High Efficacy And Toxicity In Heavily Pre-Treated Breast Cancer Patients - Doctor's Guide, 3/31/03
• Key Breast Cancer Decision Measured in Miles - WebMD, 3/28/03
• Breast Cancer Study Highlights Need For Family History Analysis - Doctor's Guide, 3/27/03
• US Lobular Breast Cases Increase Steadily - Doctor's Guide, 3/20/03
• Stn-KLH Vaccine Induces Immune Response In Breast, Ovarian Cancer Following Autologous Stem Cell Transplant - Doctor's Guide, 3/18/03
• Endocrine-Receptor Status Classifications Have High Rate Of Error - Doctor's Guide, 3/18/03
• Do Micromets Make Lymph Nodes Cancer-Positive? - Doctor's Guide, 3/18/03
• Endocrine Therapy - Expert Recommends Starting After Chemotherapy - Doctor's Guide, 3/18/03
• Most Women With Endocrine-Responsive Tumours Should Receive Endocrine Therapy - Doctor's Guide, 3/18/03
• New Guidelines "Liberalize" Use of Breast Cancer Chemotherapy Agents - Doctor's Guide, 3/17/03
• Zoladex (goserelin) Equivalent to Standard Chemotherapy in Estrogen-Receptor-positive, Node-negative, Early Breast Cancer - Doctor's Guide, 3/17/03
• Anti-estrogenic Effects of Hormonal Therapy May Impair Verbal Memory in Breast Cancer Patients - Doctor's Guide, 3/17/03 - "the women from the ATAC trial were significantly impaired on measures of verbal memory and processing speed, as compared with the controls. "And when hormone-replacement therapy in each group was accounted for, the deficits [in the ATAC patients] remained significant," ... animal studies show that estrogen levels affect the structure and function of the hippocampus and frontal lobes of the cortex, which are important for consolidating new memories. And some studies examining the effects of hormone replacement therapy in healthy postmenopausal women show it improves verbal memory and attention"
• Quality of Life Now Looms Larger in Breast Cancer Treatment - Doctor's Guide, 3/17/03
• Vaccine Boosts Immune Response In Breast Cancer Patients Following Autologous Stem Cell Transplant - Doctor's Guide, 3/17/03
• Breast Cancer Spread Foretold? - WebMD, 3/12/03
• Study Finds Breast Cancer Risk Due to Progestins in HRT - WebMD, 3/5/03 - "Women who take combination hormone replacement therapy for more than four years are at very high risk of breast cancer compared with women who have never used HRT. But estrogen-only HRT is virtually free of breast-cancer risk"
• Communication Gaps Mar Breast Cancer - WebMD, 2/26/03
• Marker for Spread of Breast Cancer Found - WebMD, 2/26/03
• Condensed Chemotherapy Schedule Improves Cancer Outcome for Breast Cancer Patients - WebMD, 2/18/03
• Recent Trainees Best At Mammograms - Intelihealth, 2/19/03 - "the most recently trained radiologists did best in a test of cancer-detection accuracy"
• Initial Sentinel Lymph Node Biopsy Should Be Separate From Total Mastectomy And Reconstruction - Doctor's Guide, 2/7/03
• Granulocyte-Colony Stimulating Factor Reduces Myelotoxicity, Does Not Influence Response Rate - Doctor's Guide, 2/6/03
• Serum Carcinoembryonic Antigen, CA 15-3 Linked To Outcome In Advanced Breast Cancer - Doctor's Guide, 2/5/03
• FDA Grants Fast Track Designation For AES-14 For Oral Mucositis Associated With Breast Cancer Chemotherapy - Doctor's Guide, 2/4/03
• Epoetin Alfa Improves Exhaustion and Quality of Life in Anaemic Breast Cancer Patients - Doctor's Guide, 2/2/03
• Birth Size Linked to Early Breast Cancer - WebMD, 1/30/03
• FDA Grants Fast Track Designation for ABI-007 for Metastatic Breast Cancer - Doctor's Guide, 1/17/03
• Diet in Puberty Affects Hormone Levels - WebMD, 1/14/03 - "Small changes in diet during puberty can have a big effect on levels of estrogen and other hormones that have been implicated in boosting breast cancer risk in women, raising hope that girls may be able to eat their way to a lower risk decades later"
• Mammograms Benefit Younger Women - WebMD, 1/3/03
• Antipsychotic Dopamine Antagonists May Increase Breast Cancer Risk - Medscape, 12/27/02
• Subdermal Beats Subareolar Injection For Identification Of Sentinel Lymph Nodes - Doctor's Guide, 12/23/02
• Battling Breast Cancer - CBS News, 12/21/02
• High Response Rate Seen with Neoadjuvant Exemestane in Breast Cancer - Doctor's Guide, 12/17/02
• Cancer Recurrence after Ductal Carcinoma in Situ Carries High Risks - Doctor's Guide, 12/17/02
• Tarceva (Erlotinib, OSI-774) Shows Minimal Activity in Pretreated Women with Breast Cancer - Doctor's Guide, 12/17/02
• Blue Dye And Phytate Radioisotope Combo Is Best For Sentinel Node Biopsy - Doctor's Guide, 12/17/02
• Hormonal Drugs Beat Chemotherapy - WebMD, 12/16/02
• Celecoxib May Improve Breast Cancer Outcomes - Doctor's Guide, 12/16/02
• Estradiol Alone Does Not Increase Breast Cancer Risk - Doctor's Guide, 12/16/02 - "Hormone replacement therapy containing progestins significantly elevates breast cancer risk, but preparations containing estradiol alone do not, a large Swedish observational study suggests"
• Hormone Replacement Linked to Fewer Bone Metastases - Doctor's Guide, 12/16/02
• Zoledronic Acid Significantly Better Than Pamidronate in Patients With Breast Cancer And Bone Metastasis - Doctor's Guide, 12/13/02
• More Than Half Of Breast Cancer Patients Have Osteopenia Or Osteoporosis Regardless Of Hormone Receptor Status - Doctor's Guide, 12/13/02
• Dose-dense Chemotherapy Benefits Breast Cancer Patients - Doctor's Guide, 12/13/02
• Dendritic Vaccine Shows Promise for Metastatic Breast Cancer - Doctor's Guide, 12/13/02
• Biologic Agent [ZD1839 (Iressa)] May Benefit Some Breast Cancer Patients - Doctor's Guide, 12/13/02
• Anthracycline-Based Regimen For Breast Cancer Superior To Cyclophosphamide/Methotrexate/Fluorouracil Combo - Doctor's Guide, 12/13/02
• Survival Similar with Breast Conservation Versus Mastectomy after Nearly 20 Years - Doctor's Guide, 12/13/02
• Frequent Chemo Ups Breast Cancer Survival - WebMD, 12/12/02
• Breast Tumor "Profile" Narrows Treatment - WebMD, 12/12/02
• Radiofrequency Ablation Effective in Small Breast Cancers - Medscape, 12/12/02
• Pathologist Assessment of HER-2/neu Status Concordant with Automatic Image Analysis - Doctor's Guide, 12/12/02
• Chemoendocrine Therapy Effective for Node-Negative, Estrogen-receptor Negative Breast Cancer - Doctor's Guide, 12/12/02
• Zoledronic Acid Reduces Bone Loss - Doctor's Guide, 12/12/02
• Communication Needed Between Relatives About Genetic Testing for Hereditary Breast, Ovarian Cancer - Doctor's Guide, 12/11/02
• Computer-Aided Diagnosis Systems Appear Equally Effective for Breast Cancer - Doctor's Guide, 12/6/02
• Periareolar Injection Successful in Locating Sentinel Nodes in Breast Cancer Patients - Doctor's Guide, 12/3/02
• Breast Cancer Risk Subsides After HRT - WebMD, 12/2/02
• Adding Docetaxel to CVAP as Neoadjuvant Therapy Improves Outcomes for Breast Cancer Patients - Doctor's Guide, 11/29/02
• Hormone Therapy, Alcohol Use Studied - Intelihealth, 11/19/02 - "a postmenopausal woman who has a lifetime breast cancer risk of 4 percent could increase the risk to 8 percent if she drinks and takes hormones"
• Mammograms Benefit Older Women - WebMD, 11/18/02
• New Weapon In Cancer War [Advexin]? - CBS News, 11/16/02
• Granulocyte Colony-Stimulating Factor Beats Leridistim for Preventing Chemotherapy-Induced Febrile Neutropenia - Doctor's Guide, 11/15/02
• Protein [cyclin E] May Predict Spread Of Cancer - Intelihealth, 11/14/02
• Rising breast cancer rate fuels environmental concerns - MSNBC, 10/23/02 - "Breast cancer jumped by 72 percent among Marin [County, Calif.] women ages 46 to 64 during the 1990s ... Common pollutants, such as benzene, a compound found in car exhaust, are linked to breast tumors, and people who move to industrialized counties suddenly face a higher breast cancer risk within one generation ... In the case of breast cancer, new diagnoses have, in fact, been growing at a rate of .6 percent per year nationwide"
• Trastuzumab + Vinorelbine Effective First-Line Therapy in HER2 Over-expressing Metastatic Breast Cancer - Doctor's Guide, 10/23/02
• Goserelin an Effective Alternative to CMF in Oestrogen-receptor Positive Early Breast Cancer - Doctor's Guide, 10/19/02
• Estrogen OK for Some After Breast Cancer - WebMD, 10/18/02
• Mastectomy, Lump Removal Seen Equal - Intelihealth, 10/17/02
• Mastectomy Not Necessary for Early-Stage Breast Cancer - WebMD, 10/16/02
• Brachytherapy Zaps Breast Cancer - WebMD, 10/8/02
• Lumpectomy And Radiation Offers Equivalent Overall And Disease-Free Survival To Mastectomy - Doctor's Guide, 10/7/02
• Increased Breast Cancer Risk Shown Among Women Who Smoked In Adolescence - Doctor's Guide, 10/4/02
• Teen Smokers Risk Breast Cancer - WebMD, 10/3/02
• Alternations in glucose metabolism increase risk for breast cancer in young women - Doctor's Guide, 10/1/02
• Chemotherapy Offers No Survival Advantage Over Endocrine Therapy But Demonstrates Greater Antitumor Activity - Doctor's Guide, 10/1/02
• Significant Impact On Breast Cancer Management From BRCA1 Finds - Doctor's Guide, 9/30/02
• Non-steroidal Anti-inflammatory Drug Use May Slow Breast Cancer Tumour Growth, Prevent Distant Metastasis - Doctor's Guide, 9/30/02 - "increasing NSAID use may retard the growth of breast tumours and may prevent distant metastasis"
• Pregnancy hormone estriol may reduce risk for breast cancer - Doctor's Guide, 9/30/02
• Seniors With Breast Cancer Also Benefit From Aggressive Treatment - Doctor's Guide, 9/27/02
• Hormone Replacement Therapy Has Only Positive Effects On Detection Of Breast Cancer - Doctor's Guide, 9/25/02
• Brachytherapy Boost to Stage I-II Breast Tumour Beds Indicated as Treatment of Choice - Doctor's Guide, 9/20/02
• Breast Density Affects Cancer Screening - WebMD, 9/19/02
• Reusable Compensator Library Reduces Dose Inhomogeneity in Breast Tangential Radiotherapy - Doctor's Guide, 9/18/02
• Mammogram Results May Depend on Doctor - WebMD, 9/17/02
• Hormone Replacement Therapy may Improve Breast Cancer Detection and Survival Rate - Doctor's Guide, 9/13/02
• Good (Breast Cancer) News for HRT Users - WebMD, 9/12/02
• Estrogen Therapy Appears Safe For Women With Early Breast Cancer - Doctor's Guide, 9/10/02 - "Estrogen replacement therapy does not appear to increase risk of recurrence or death in women with early breast cancer"
• Large-Core Needle Biopsy Effective in Benign Breast Lesions - Doctor's Guide, 8/30/02
• Chronic Marimastat Therapy Invalid in Adjuvant Treatment of Breast Cancer - Doctor's Guide, 8/28/02
• Trial of Sequential Docetaxel, Doxorubicin/Cyclophosphamide Ends - Doctor's Guide, 8/27/02
• Introduction of Mammography Reduces Mastectomy Rates - Doctor's Guide, 8/22/02
• No Advantage in Radical Over Total Mastectomy: 25-year Study - Doctor's Guide, 8/22/02
• Childhood Growth Linked to Breast Cancer - WebMD, 8/19/02
• Urokinase-type Plasminogen Activator Inhibitors, but Not the Activator Itself, Predict Outcome in Breast Cancer Patients - Doctor's Guide, 8/15/02
• Gemcitabine Plus Trastuzumab Improves Outcomes in Previously Treated, Metastatic Breast Cancer Patients - Doctor's Guide, 8/13/02
• Intradermal Beats Intraparenchymal Injection for Detecting Sentinel Nodes in Breast Cancer - Doctor's Guide, 8/12/02
• Doxorubicin/cyclophosphamide Reduces Recurrence in Node Negative, Rapidly Proliferating Breast Cancer - Doctor's Guide, 8/12/02
• Federal Study Shows No Link Between Pollution And Breast Cancer - Intelihealth, 8/6/02
• Study backs use of mammograms - USA Today, 8/1/02 - "Among screened women between 40 and 69, the breast cancer death rate dropped 44% after mammography became routine ... But breast cancer activist Barbara Brenner, executive director of Breast Cancer Action in San Francisco, calls the benefit of early detection "a myth.""
• Younger Premenopausal Women with Breast Cancer Have Poorer Prognosis than Older Women - Doctor's Guide, 7/23/02
• Breast-Conserving Therapy Provides Outcomes Comparable to Modified Radical Mastectomy - Doctor's Guide, 7/18/02
• Breast Cancer Mortality Higher In Early Radiation Technicians - Doctor's Guide, 6/20/02
• Breast Cancer Rising Among Asian-American Women - Doctor's Guide, 6/10/02 - "The Japanese lifestyle has become increasingly Westernized, study authors note, influencing factors known to increase risk for breast cancer: having fewer children, engaging in less physical activity and experiencing increasing obesity. Japanese are also eating more fats and fewer soy products"
• Breast Feeding Can Reduce Childhood Obesity - Doctor's Guide, 6/6/02
• Cancer in Context: What Are Your Odds? - WebMD, 6/4/02
• Communication Key To Breast Cancer Care In Older Women - Doctor's Guide, 6/4/02
• Test Predicts If Breast Cancer Chemotherapy Will Work - Doctor's Guide, 6/3/02
• Goserelin Protects Ovarian Function In Pre-Menopausal, Early-Stage Breast Cancer - Doctor's Guide, 5/29/02
• Minimally Invasive Diagnostic Technique Useful For All Non-Palpable Breast Lesions - Doctor's Guide, 5/23/02
• Risk Of Subsequent Sarcoma Small In Breast Cancer Radiotherapy - Doctor's Guide, 5/22/02
• Oophorectomy Curbs Ovarian And Breast Cancer Risks In Carriers of BRCA Mutations - Doctor's Guide, 5/22/02
• Risk Reducing Salpingo-Oopherectomy Significantly Reduces Risk of Breast Cancer and BRCA-Related Gynecologic Cancer - Doctor's Guide, 5/21/02
• Ovary Removal Prevents Breast Cancer - WebMD, 5/20/02
• Disease-Free Survival Benefit Seen by Switching from 5-Flourouracil-based to Docetaxel-based Breast Cancer Therapy - Doctor's Guide, 5/20/02
• Breast Cancer Therapy Heats Up - WebMD, 5/18/02
• Moderate Drinking Increases Insulin Sensitivity In Non-Diabetic, Older Women - Doctor's Guide, 5/16/02 - "Researchers warn, however, that the alcohol intake significantly increased serum levels of dehydroepiandrosterone sulphate and estrone sulphate, steroid hormones known to be risk factors for breast cancer"
• Doxorubicin-Based Adjuvant Therapy Beneficial In Stage II Breast Cancer - Doctor's Guide, 5/8/02
• Triple Risk For Breast Cancer Twins - Doctor's Guide, 5/6/02
• Ductography May Help Detect Breast Malignancy - Doctor's Guide, 5/2/02
• Menstrual Cycle Phase Important In Mastectomy Plus Oophorectomy - Doctor's Guide, 5/2/02
• Breast Cancer Detection Rates Go Up, Patient Recall Rates Go Down With Consensus Double Reading - Doctor's Guide, 4/29/02
• High Levels of Sex Hormones Raise Breast Cancer Risk in Older Women - Doctor's Guide, 4/17/02 - "Postmenopausal women with high amounts of oestrogen and testosterone in their bloodstream are at over twice the risk of the disease as those with low levels of the hormones ... obesity is the biggest known reason for high levels of sex hormones among postmenopausal women ... women with raised levels of a molecule called sex hormone binding globulin, which reduces the activity of sex hormones, were at lower than usual risk. Interestingly, women who are obese have low levels of this molecule, which probably also helps to raise their risk of breast cancer"
• Contralateral Prophylactic Mastectomy Reduces Risk for Second Primary Cancer in Women with Stage 1 or 2 Primary Breast Cancer and Positive Family History - Doctor's Guide, 4/15/02
• Extra Pounds Raise Breast Cancer Risk - WebMD, 4/10/02
• Adjuvant Radiotherapy Increases Risk of Second Primary Cancer in Contralateral Breast - Doctor's Guide, 4/8/02
• Two Mapping Techniques Needed to Detect Sentinel Lymph Nodes in Breast Cancer - Doctor's Guide, 4/1/02
• Breast Cancer Vaccine Now in Early Trial - WebMD, 3/25/02
• Oral Contraceptives may Increase Risk of Breast Cancer - Doctor's Guide, 3/25/02
• Axillary Dissection Can Be Safely Avoided When Breast Cancers Are Small - Doctor's Guide, 3/25/02
• The Pill May Increase Breast Cancer - WebMD, 3/23/02
• Biopsies of Internal Mammary Sentinel Nodes may Improve Patient Survival in Breast Cancer - Doctor's Guide, 3/22/02
• Breast Cancer Choices Denied, Some Surgeons Don't Tell Women About Surgery Options - WebMD, 3/22/02
• Hormone Therapy May Provide Greater Gains Than Chemotherapy In Breast Cancer Treatments - Doctor's Guide, 3/20/02
• Surgeons Don't Offer Breast Cancer Patients Choices Of Treatment As Often As They Could - Doctor's Guide, 3/20/02
• Major Study Reaffirms That Regular Mammograms Save Life - Intelihealth, 3/14/02
• Better Breast Cancer Test - WebMD, 3/11/02
• Positron Emission Tomography Proves Best for Finding Recurrent Breast Cancer - Doctor's Guide, 3/7/02
• Endoscopic-Assistance With Mastectomy Improves Cosmetic Results, Patient Satisfaction - Doctor's Guide, 3/4/02
• Aromatase Inhibitors Added to Guidelines for Breast Cancer Treatment - Doctor's Guide, 3/4/02
• Microwave Therapy Improves Chance Of Saving Breast - Doctor's Guide, 3/3/02
• Exposure To Electromagnetic Fields, Light At Night May Be Risk Factor For Male Breast Carcinoma - Doctor's Guide, 3/1/02
• Study Confirms HRT Ups Breast Cancer Risk - WebMD, 2/12/02 - "The risk of ductal cancer -- the most common form of breast cancer -- increases by 50% in women who have used HRT for five recent years ...If our results are correct, then nonusers of HRT would have an incidence of ductal cancer of about 230 per 100,000 women per year, whereas women with five years of recent HRT use would have a rate of 349 per 100,000 women per year"
• Radiofrequency Energy Zaps Breast Cancer Tumors - WebMD, 2/7/02
• Sentinel Lymph Node Biopsy In Breast Cancer Cannot Be Ignored - Doctor's Guide, 2/5/02
• Researcher: Mammography Saves Lives - Intelihealth, 2/1/02
• Omitting Axillary Dissection for Invasive Breast Carcinoma May Be Ill-advised - Doctor's Guide, 1/29/02
• Many Women With Newly Diagnosed Breast Carcinoma Likely To Harbour BRCA1/2 Mutation - Doctor's Guide, 1/29/02
• Should I Get a Mammogram This Year? - WebMD, 1/29/02
• Cancer Combo [Herceptin & Iressa] Delivers One-Two Punch - WebMD, 1/28/02
• Mammogram Advice In Dispute - Intelihealth, 1/25/02
• Two Biomarkers Help Predict Course of Breast Cancer - Doctor's Guide, 1/21/02
• New Guidelines Released on Ductal Lavage for Managing High Risk Breast Cancer - Doctor's Guide, 1/14/02
• Estradiol Levels Could Determine Breast Cancer Risk in Older Women - Doctor's Guide, 1/10/02
• Estrogen Level Determines Osteoporosis Drug's Breast Cancer Prevention Effectiveness in Postmenopausal Women - Doctor's Guide, 1/9/02
• Autologous Reinfusions Induce Rapid T-Cell Recovery After High Dose Chemotherapy For Metastatic Breast Cancer - Doctor's Guide, 1/9/02
• Study Reveals Healthy Outlook For Long-Term Breast Cancer Survivors - Doctor's Guide, 1/2/02
• Tall Thin Girls May Have Increased Breast Cancer Risk - Doctor's Guide, 12/24/01
• Breast Cancer Surgery Without the Knife - WebMD, 12/19/01
• Combination of Taxane and Anthracycline Results in Complete Responses Among Women with Inflammatory Breast Cancer - Doctor's Guide, 12/14/01
• Navelbine (Vinorelbine Tartate) Promising In Treatment For Metastatic Breast Cancer - Doctor's Guide, 12/13/01
• Mastectomy Offers Best Prognosis After Local Breast-Cancer Recurrence - Doctor's Guide, 12/13/01
• Inhibition of VEGF by Experimental Drug TSU-68 Appears to Synergistically Improve Anti-tumor Action - Doctor's Guide, 12/13/01
• Caelyx (Doxorubicin Liposome Injection) Well Tolerated by Patients with Advanced Breast Cancer - Doctor's Guide, 12/13/01
• Axillary Dissection, Radiation Offer Equal Survival in Early Breast Cancer - Doctor's Guide, 12/13/01
• High-Dose Epirubicin Plus Docetaxel Appears Effective in Locally Advanced Breast Cancer Without Cardiac Toxicity - Doctor's Guide, 12/12/01
• Study Raises Mammogram Questions - Intelihealth, 12/11/01
• Breast Fluid May Mean Cancer Risk - Intelihealth, 12/5/01
• Laser-Induced Thermotherapy Destroys Cancer Metastases, Relieves Pain - Doctor's Guide, 11/29/01
• Lavage Treatment Detects High Risk For Breast Cancer - Intelihealth, 11/20/01
• Anxiety Prevents Women From Performing Breast Self-Exams - WebMD, 11/8/01
• Booster Radiation Cuts Chance of Breast Cancer Coming Back - WebMD, 11/7/01
• Study Finds Double Mastectomy Reduces Breast Cancer Rate To Near Zero For Very High Risk Women - Intelihealth, 11/7/01
• New Procedure Detects Early Breast Cancer Cells - WebMD, 11/6/01
• Dispelling the Myths Behind Breast Cancer and Family - WebMD, 10/25/01
• Technique May Save Lymph Nodes - Intelihealth, 10/23/01
• Radioactive Tracer Approach Reduces Surgical Trauma in Breast Cancer - Doctor's Guide, 10/22/01
• Zometa (Zoledronic Acid for Injection) Reduces Bone Complications in Multiple Myeloma/Breast Cancer - Doctor's Guide, 10/22/01
• How Likely Are You to Get Breast Cancer? - WebMD, 10/18/01
• Doctor Offers Closest Recommendation Yet for Estrogen Use in Breast Cancer Survivors - Doctor's Guide, 10/8/01
• Venlafaxine Reduces Menopausal Symptoms in Breast Cancer Survivors Who Cannot Take Estrogen - Doctor's Guide, 10/8/01
• Breast Cancer Survivors Finally Have Weapon Against Menopause, Antidepressants Relieve Hot Flashes - WebMD, 10/4/01 - "breast cancer survivors treated with the antidepressant Effexor had a 60% reduction in hot flashes. The widely prescribed antidepressants Prozac and Paxil also appear to be effective"
• Emotional Turmoil of Breast Cancer Therapy Eases Soon After - WebMD, 9/12/01
• Positron Emission Tomography Scan Results in Management Changes for Majority of Breast Cancer Patients - Doctor's Guide, 9/4/01
• Weekly Docetaxel Shows Promise In Older Patients With Advanced Breast Cancer - Doctor's Guide, 8/1/01
• Women With Family History of Breast Cancer Could Benefit From MRI Screening - WebMD, 7/26/01
• Removing Healthy Breasts From High-Risk Women - WebMD, 7/18/01
• Bone Marrow Transplant Still an Option for Breast Cancer - WebMD, 7/6/01
• Second Breast Cancers May Be Harder to Treat in Women Taking Tamoxifen - Doctor's Guide, 7/4/01
• Drug's Affect On Breast Cancer Studied - Intelihealth, 7/3/01
• Breast Cancer Risk Lower for Older Women With Weak Bones - WebMD, 6/19/01
• Weekly Paclitaxel Better Than Standard Dosage For Breast Cancer Treatment - Doctor's Guide, 5/15/01
• Anti-Aromatase Agents Cost-Effective For Women With Metastatic Breast Cancer - Doctor's Guide, 5/15/01
• Hormone Therapy -- Is It Safe for Breast Cancer Survivors? - WebMD, 5/15/01
• Hormones may cut risk for breast cancer patients - USA Today, 5/15/01 - "Hormone replacement therapy after a diagnosis of breast cancer does not increase the risk of recurrence of the disease and may even lower chances that the cancer will return"
• Aromasin (Exemestane Tablets) Demonstrates High Response Rate Versus Tamoxifen In First-Line Treatment of Advanced Breast Cancer - Doctor's Guide, 5/14/01
• Femara (Letrozole Tablets) Demonstrates Superiority Over Tamoxifen in Advanced Breast Cancer - Doctor's Guide, 5/14/01
• Weekly Paclitaxel Well Tolerated By Elderly Women With Metastatic Breast Cancer - Doctor's Guide, 5/14/01
• Aromatase Inhibition Does Not Interfere With Serum Lipids In Metastatic Breast Cancer - Doctor's Guide, 5/14/01
• Taxotere, Carboplatin And Herceptin Combination Effective, Safe In Metastatic Breast Cancer - Doctor's Guide, 5/14/01
• Paclitaxel Reverses Unfavorable Prognosis In HER2/Neu Metastatic Breast Cancer - Doctor's Guide, 5/14/01
• Arimidex Reinforced As A First-Line Choice For Patients With Aggressive Metastatic Breast Cancer - Doctor's Guide, 5/12/01
• Giving Tamoxifen Therapy for More Than Five Years Is Unnecessary, Study Finds - WebMD, 5/1/01
• New Milk Duct Test May Detect Breast Cancer Earlier, But May Be Appropriate Only for High-Risk Women - WebMD, 4/26/01
• Radioactive 'Seeds' as Effective as Beams for Breast Cancer - WebMD, 4/12/01
• Very Low Dose Zoledronic Reduces Bone Metastases In Metastatic Breast Cancer And Multiple Myeloma - Doctor's Guide, 4/2/01
• Breast Cancer Drug Does Not Cause Sexual and Mood Effects - WebMD, 3/29/01 - "While the study found no side effects related to sexuality or mood, it did find that women taking tamoxifen had more menopauselike symptoms"
• Another Link Between Cox-2 Expression and Breast Cancer - Doctor's Guide, 3/29/01 - "This finding leaves the door open to studies that would determine whether treatment with COX-2 inhibitors might somehow affect tumor progression"
• Light May Help Find Breast Cancer - Intelihealth, 3/19/01
• Study Raises Safety Issues With Cancer Drug - Intelihealth, 3/16/01 - "Herceptin and doxyrubicin together seemed to affect the hearts of test patients, causing fatigue, shortness of breath and other symptoms ... these side effects do not occur when Herceptin is given with two other chemotherapy agents, taxotere and carboplatin ... early administration of Herceptin might breed tumors resistant to the drug, rendering it useless when current treatments fail and Herceptin is needed for late-stage cancers"
• Good News for Breast Cancer Survivors - WebMD, 3/16/01 - "They actually may have less risk of developing colon or rectal cancer than women who have not had breast cancer"
• Herceptin Offers Hope for Some Women With Advanced Breast Cancer, Biotech Drug Shrinks Aggressive Tumors, Improves Chemotherapy - WebMD, 3/14/01 - "Herceptin, a bioengineered antibody developed by Genentech Inc., clicks onto the HER2 molecules that studded the surface of Empey's stubborn breast cancer cells. This blocks HER2 from sending the signals that help cancer cells grow and spread. The result is often that the tumors shrink and wither away."
• Herceptin With Chemotherapy Increases Median Survival In Metastatic Breast Cancer - Doctor's Guide, 3/14/01
• Mammography: 'Gold Standard' Could Use Some Polish - WebMD, 3/12/01
• Digital Mammograms Won't Make Screening More Comfortable - WebMD, 3/9/01 - "Having a good, skilled, competent radiologist is more important than which technology is used"
• Standard mammogram still best at detecting cancer - USA Today, 3/8/01
• Do Abortions Increase Breast Cancer Risk? - WebMD, 3/7/01 - "We really think there is no association between breast cancer and abortion."
• Old-Fashioned Mammograms Best To Detect Breast Cancer - Intelihealth, 3/8/01
• Friends may make breast cancer more survivable - USA Today, 3/7/01
• Scientists learning how breast cancer spreads - USA Today, 2/28/01
• The End of the Road for Mammograms? New Handheld Devices More Comfortable, and Perhaps More Accurate - WebMD, 2/28/01
• Scientists Gain Breast Cancer Facts - Intelihealth, 2/28/01
• Surviving Breast Cancer After Menopause, Age and Other Illnesses Influence Your Chances of Survival - WebMD, 2/20/01
• Prognosis Not So Bright For New Breast Disease Drug (Iogen for fibrocystic breast disease) - Intelihealth, 2/16/01 - "iodine rids women suffering from FBD of symptoms. Two unrelated studies, one in Canada and one in Russia, involving nearly 1,500 women, showed iodine reduced the number of cysts and the level of pain. . . . Iogen contains no iodine, but when it is broken down by the body, it becomes molecular iodine. And unlike the iodine found in foods, which is toxic to the thyroid in large quantities, Iogen seems to deliver large doses of pure iodine without dangerous side effects."
• New treatments hold out hope for breast cancer patients - CNN, 1/26/01
• Chemo Urged For Small Breast Tumors - Intelihealth, 1/16/01
• Radioactive Seeds May Offer Treatment Option for Breast Cancer - WebMD, 1/16/01
• FDA Approves Breast Cancer Drug - Intelihealth, 1/11/01
• New First-Line Drug Approved for Advanced Breast Cancer, Femara May Be Better Than Present Drug of Choice - WebMD, 1/10/01
• Heading Breast Cancer Off at the Pass, The Experts Debate Prevention Through Surgery - WebMD, 12/20/00
• Anti-depressant (Effexor®/venlafaxine) counters hot flashes from menopause, chemotherapy - CNN, 12/15/00 - ""I think it represents the best of the non-hormonal options for treating hot flashes in women with breast cancer.""
• Breast Cancer Drug Takes Big Step Toward First Place, FDA Advisers Back Femara as Drug Treatment of Choice - WebMD, 12/13/00
• FDA Committee Recommends Femara (Letrozole) For Advanced Breast Cancer - Doctor's Guide, 12/13/00
• Dolastatin-10 Does Not Improve Advanced Breast Cancer - Doctor's Guide, 12/11/00
• Better Survival With Arimidex (Anastrozole) Than Tamoxifen In Postmenopausal Women With Advanced Breast Cancer - Doctor's Guide, 12/11/00
• One Or Two Sentinel Node Biopsies Predict Early Stage Breast Cancer - Doctor's Guide, 12/11/00
• First-Line Anastrozole Effective Against Advanced Breast Cancer After Tamoxifen - Doctor's Guide, 12/8/00
• Doxorubicin/Docetaxel Effective For Breast Cancer  - Doctor's Guide, 12/8/00
• Faslodext (ICI182,780) At Least As Effective As Arimidex (Anastrozole) In Advanced Breast Cancer - Doctor's Guide, 12/7/00
• Femara (Letrozole) Significantly More Effective Than Tamoxifen In Treating Advanced Breast Cancer - Doctor's Guide, 12/7/00
• Aromasin (Exemastane) May Be More Effective Than Tamoxifen In Postmeopausal Breast Cancer - Doctor's Guide, 12/7/00
• New Therapy Helpful in Advanced Breast Cancer, Faslodex Safe, Effective in Estrogen-Sensitive Tumors - WebMD, 12/6/00
• Hormone Replacement Therapy and Breast MRI Don't Mix - WebMD, 12/5/00
• Breast Cancer "Cure" Without Surgery - Doctor's Guide, 11/28/00
• New Answer for Tamoxifen Problem, Birth Control Device May Prevent Unwanted Side Effects - WebMD, 11/16/00
• Femara (Letrozole) More Effective Than Tamoxifen As First-Line Treatment For Advanced Breast Cancer - Doctor's Guide, 11/9/00
• Promising New Therapy for Advanced Breast Cancer - WebMD, 11/9/00
• Experts Reach a Consensus for Breast Cancer Treatment - WebMD, 11/3/00
• Breast Cancer: Is the Race for a Cure Nearing the Finish Line? - WebMD, 10/30/00
• The Skinny On High-Fat Diets and Breast Cancer - WebMD, 10/27/00
• Radiotherapy And Chemotherapy Should Be Concurrent For Early Breast-cancer - Doctor's Guide, 10/27/00
• Battling breast cancer -- a reporter's perspective - CNN, 10/26/00
• Half-body Irradiation Provides Rapid Palliation In Metastatic Breast Cancer - Doctor's Guide, 10/25/00
• Aromasin (Exemestane) Promising In Adjuvant Treatment For Breast Cancer - Doctor's Guide, 10/13/00
• The Pill and Breast Cancer Risk: More Food for Thought - WebMD, 10/10/00
• Breast Reconstruction During Mastectomy Boosts Well-Being - Doctor's Guide, 10/2/00
• Women With Hereditary Breast Cancer Can Safely Have Radiation - WebMD, 9/29/00
• American Women Often Missing out on Best Breast Cancer Care - WebMD, 9/28/00
• Zoladex (Goserelin) As Effective As Standard Chemotherapy In Early Breast Cancer - Doctor's Guide, 9/27/00
• Radiotherapy Booster Cuts Risk Of Breast Cancer Recurrence - Doctor's Guide, 9/19/00
• Breast-Reduction Surgery May Reduce Breast Cancer Risk - WebMD, 9/19/00
• What Lies in the Wake of Various Breast Cancer Surgeries? - WebMD, 9/6/00
• Study Shows Breast Cancer Risk Starts Early -- Really Early - WebMD, 8/31/00
• A New Way to Tell Who's at High Risk for Breast Cancer - WebMD, 8/3/00
• More Older Women Getting Breast-Conserving Surgery - WebMD, 8/3/00
• Watching Your Waist May Reduce Breast Cancer Risk - WebMD, 7/24/00
• New Laser Treatment May Replace Lumpectomy In Breast Cancer - Doctor's Guide, 7/18/00
• No Need for Extra Tests to Detect Breast Cancer's Return - WebMD, 7/11/00
• Do Antidepressants Increase Breast Cancer Risk? - WebMD, 6/16/00
• Researchers Say Herbal Formula Offers Relief From Chemotherapy Ills - Intelihealth, 6/16/00
• Having Babies Before Age 30 Cuts Risk of Breast Cancer - WebMD, 6/15/00
• Hormones Said Raising Breast Cancers - Intelihealth, 6/1/00
• Zoladex (Goserelin) May Be Effective in Pre-Menopausal Breast Cancer - Doctor's Guide, 5/24/00
• Herceptin (Trastuzumab) Prompts Promising Response In Advanced Breast Cancer - Doctor's Guide, 5/23/00
• Fareston (Toremifene Citrate) as Effective as Tamoxifen in Breast Cancer - Doctor's Guide, 5/23/00
• Shorter Treatments Available for Breast Cancer Patients - WebMD, 5/22/00
• Newer Depression Drug (Effexor) Relieves Hot Flashes - WebMD, 5/22/00
• Paroxetine Effective Against Hot Flushes in Survivors of Breast Cancer - Doctor's Guide, 5/19/00
• Radiation Cuts Risk of Breast Cancer Recurrence by Two-Thirds - WebMD, 5/18/00
• Drug May Ease Hot Flashes In Women With Breast Cancer - Intelihealth, 5/16/00
• Are Breast Cancers Detected by Mammography Different? - WebMD, 4/24/00
• Older Breast Cancer Patients Live As Long As Non-Patients - Intelihealth, 4/5/00
• Test May Rule Out Chemotherapy Need - Intelihealth, 4/4/00
• New Test Predicts Node-negative Breast Cancer Metastases - Doctor's Guide, 4/4/00
• Mastectomy Protects Against Breast Cancer in Women with Genetic Mutations - Doctor's Guide, 4/3/00
• Breast Cancer Support Groups Not Right For All Women - Intelihealth, 3/29/00
• Study Questions Breast Cancer Treatment - Intelihealth, 3/6/00
• Breast Cancer Experts Agree On Treatment Options For Early Breast Cancer - Doctor's Guide, 2/15/00
• Paclitaxel/Carboplatin Combination Achieves Encouraging Results In Breast Cancer - Doctor's Guide, 2/15/00
• Calcium Deposits May Be Key To Breast Cancer Survival - Intelihealth, 2/7/00
• Taxotere And Adriamycin Combo Effective For Breast Cancer - Doctor's Guide, 2/3/00
• Anastrozole May Replace Tamoxifen In Postmenopausal Breast Cancer - Doctor's Guide, 2/1/00
• Weekly Docetaxel Plus Doxorubicin Effective In Advanced Breast Cancer - Doctor's Guide, 1/31/00
• Estrogen/Progestin HRT Seems To Increase Risk Of Breast Cancer - Doctor's Guide, 1/25/00
• Aromasin Now Available In US For Advanced Breast Cancer - Doctor's Guide, 1/24/00
• BREAST CANCER: Prozac Treats Hot Flashes - Doctor's Guide, 12/15/99
• BREAST CANCER: Radiation After Conservative Surgery Reduces Recurrences - Doctor's Guide, 12/15/99
• Outlook Good For Women With Early Breast Cancer - Doctor's Guide, 12/15/99
• Estrogen Replacement Therapy Studied In Breast-Cancer Survivors - Doctor's Guide, 12/14/99
• Herceptin, In Adjunct Therapy, Reducing Tumor Size - Doctor's Guide, 12/13/99
• Bisphosphonates May Reduce Metastases - Doctor's Guide, 12/13/99
• Navelbine Plus Herceptin Promising For Metastatic Breast Cancer - Doctor's Guide, 12/10/99
• Neoadjuvant Therapy With Taxotere Improves Efficacy - Doctor's Guide, 12/10/99
• Zoladex May Further Reduce Breast Cancer Recurrence In Premenopausal Women - Doctor's Guide, 12/10/99
• Arimidex More Effective Than Nolvadex For Advanced Breast Cancer - Doctor's Guide, 12/10/99
• Chemo May Not Be Necessary In Treatment Of Small Breast Tumors - Doctor's Guide, 12/10/99
• Chemotherapy More Effective When Combined With Taxotere - Doctor's Guide, 12/10/99
• Breast-Cancer Surgery Chances Are Improved By Timing - Intelihealth, 11/15/99
• Nontoxic Drug Shown To Help Reduce Return Of Breast Cancer - Intelihealth, 11/3/99
• Lumpectomy Offers Same Survival To Mastectomy In Breast Cancer Relapse - Doctor's Guide, 11/2/99
• Research Identifies Factors Leading To Better Breast Cancer Treatment - Doctor's Guide, 9/30/99
• Inherited Breast Cancer Gene Liked To Recurrence, New Tumors - Doctor's Guide, 9/29/99
• Researchers Baffled By Low Use Of Axillary Node Dissection In Breast Cancer - Doctor's Guide, 9/23/99
• Taxol®/Doxorubicin Improves Survival In Metastatic Breast Cancer - Doctor's Guide, 9/24/99
• Axillary Node Dissection Improves Outcome In Breast Cancer Patients - Doctor's Guide, 9/21/99
• FDA Advisory Panel Backs Taxol For Adjuvant Breast Cancer Treatment - Doctor's Guide, 9/17/99
• Anastrazole Shows Equal Efficacy To Tamoxifen In Advanced Breast Cancer - Doctor's Guide, 9/16/99
• New Drug Combination Enhances Treatment For Advanced Breast Cancer - Doctor's Guide, 9/16/99
• Anastrozole As Effective As Tamoxifen For Advanced Breast Cancer In Postmenopausal Women - Doctor's Guide, 9/15/99
• Ovary Removal Reduces Risk Of Breast Cancer In Women With BRCA1 Mutation - Doctor's Guide, 8/31/99
• Behavioral Program Boosts Antibody That Fights Breast Cancer - Doctor's Guide, 8/24/99
• Study Shows Taxol Improves Survival In Metastatic Breast Cancer Patients - Doctor's Guide, 8/4/99
• Researchers Seek Link Between Breast Cancer And Artificial Light - Intelihealth, 8/2/99
• PCBs Linked To Breast Cancer Risk, Study Shows - Doctor's Guide, 7/29/99
• Anthracycline Superior To Cyclophosphamide/Methotextrate/5FU - Doctor's Guide, 7/28/99
• Taxol, Taxotere Equally Effective In Metastatic Breast Cancer - Doctor's Guide, 7/28/99
• Depression In Breast Cancer Patients Linked To Lack Of Estrogen - Doctor's Guide, 6/29/99
• First Clinical Guidelines For Breast Cancer Risk Reduction Published - Doctor's Guide, 6/11/99
• Breast cancer detection: Upping your odds for survival - CNN, 5/25/99
• New Mastectomy Operation Rebuilds Lost Breasts - Intelihealth, 5/24/99
• Taxotere Plus Adriamycin Outperforms Standard Combination In Breast Cancer - Doctor's Guide, 5/17/99
• Thorough breast cancer surgery may make radiation unnecessary - CNN, 5/14/99
• MRI Most Accurate For Detecting Difficult To Diagnose Breast Cancer - Doctor's Guide, 5/10/99
• HRT Should Be Considered When Determining Breast Cancer Treatment - Doctor's Guide, 5/5/99
• Study endorses quick, easy breast biopsy - CNN, 5/4/99
• Study Finds Lymph Node Surgery Unnecessary For Many Breast Cancer Patients - Doctor's Guide, 4/30/99
• Taxol Improves Breast Cancer Survival When Added To Chemotherapy - Doctor's Guide, 4/29/99
• Side Effects Limiting Chemotherapy - Intelihealth, 4/28/99
• Studies show riskier breast cancer treatment no better than standard chemo - CNN, 4/15/99
• Study Shows Hormone Replacement Therapy Does Not Elevate Breast Cancer Risk - Doctor's Guide, 3/15/99
• Higher Fat Diet Not Linked To Higher Breast Cancer Risk - Doctor's Guide, 3/9/99
• Breast cancer vaccine trials show promise - CNN, 1/14/99
• Evista Reduces Breast Cancer Incidence In Postmenopausal Women - Doctor's Guide, 12/11/98
• New evidence links breast cancer to electromagnetic fields - CNN, 3/24/98
• Femara Effective In Postmenopausal Women With Advanced Breast Cancer - Doctor's Guide, 2/5/98
• New Advanced Breast Cancer Drug Now Available - Doctor's Guide, 10/1/97