News tagged with inflammatory breast cancer

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Take a bow-wow: dogs fight bowel cancer

Japanese researchers on Monday reported a "lab" breakthrough: a retriever which can scent bowel cancer in breath and stool samples as accurately as hi-tech diagnostic tools.

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Jan 31, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Researcher studies rare type of breast cancer

For University of Delaware researcher Kenneth van Golen, the advances made in recent years in treating breast cancer have a bittersweet element.

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Jan 26, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Researchers uncover new risk factors for brain metastases in breast cancer patients

Nearly one-fifth of all metastatic breast cancer patients develop brain metastases and have significantly shorter overall survival than patients who do not have brain involvement. One way to improve the affected patients' ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Dec 09, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Joint pain linked to breast cancer drug not inflammatory arthritis or autoimmune disease

A new study suggests joint complaints attributed to aromatase inhibitors (AI), popular breast cancer drugs, are not associated with inflammatory arthritis or autoimmune disease. Because of that, researchers say women who ...

Medicine & Health / Medications

created Nov 08, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Asthma drug prevents spread of breast cancer: study

A drug commonly used in Japan and Korea to treat asthma has been found to stop the spread of breast cancer cells traditionally resistant to chemotherapy, according to a new study led by St. Michael's pathologist Dr. Gerald ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Nov 03, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Inflammatory breast cancer focus of new report

A rare and deadly form of breast cancer that often goes unrecognized by clinicians and patients alike is the focus of a new report from leading researchers. Inflammatory breast cancer (IBC) has made headlines as an unrecognized ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Oct 19, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Aspirin boosts breast cancer survival rate

(PhysOrg.com) -- An observational study of 4,164 women diagnosed with breast cancer showed those taking aspirin in the period after diagnosis had a much lower rate of recurrence, and a much higher survival ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Feb 17, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (12) | comments 0 | with audio podcast report

Novel detection method unmasks circulating breast cancer cells

Circulating metastatic breast cancer cells can lose their epithelial receptors, a process that enables them to travel through the bloodstream undetected, according to research from The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Dec 12, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Study Shows How Normal Cells Influence Tumor Growth

(PhysOrg.com) -- It was once thought that the two communities of cells within a cancerous breast tumor - fast-growing malignant cells and the normal cells that surround them - existed independently, without interaction. Then ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Oct 21, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Doctors try to put pain in perspective

Susan Leonard's rare and aggressive inflammatory breast cancer and treatment left her with swelling all over her body, nerve damage and loss of her hair, fingernails and toenails. Her severe pain necessitated medication that ...

Medicine & Health / Other

created Aug 26, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0