Beta blockers may reduce breast cancer spread
New Kerala Sun, 28 Mar 2010 06:00 AM PDT
London, Mar 28 : The ability of breast cancer to spread around the body can be reduced with the help of blood pressure drugs, researchers have said. |
Genome-Sequencing Is Profiling Responsiveness To Treatment For Advanced Breast Cancer
Medical News Today Sun, 28 Mar 2010 05:35 AM PDT
Tumors biopsied from women with invasive breast cancer are having their genomes sequenced in an attempt to develop a DNA profile that one day may identify ahead of time the patients who will most likely respond to chemotherapy with an aromatase inhibitor. Aromatase inhibitors are a class of chemotherapeutic agents that block the production of estrogen in postmenopausal women. The genetic ... |
Medical center has lung cancer in crosshairs
The San Francisco Examiner Sun, 28 Mar 2010 05:33 AM PDT
For decades, the medical field has been searching tirelessly for answers to the callously fatal efficiency of lung cancer, a disease that kills more than 150,000 people in the U.S. every year, making it the nation’s deadliest cancer. Despite the considerable efforts put forth by dedicated lung... |
HILLSBOROUGH: Hoopsters score big for cancer center
Hillsborough Beacon Sun, 28 Mar 2010 05:27 AM PDT
Hillsborough High Schoolâs recent basketball tournament raised $1,200 to benefit The Steeplechase Cancer Center at Somerset Medical Center in Somerville. |
Breast cancer overtreated?
Straits Times Sun, 28 Mar 2010 04:42 AM PDT
BARCELONA - ARE doctors overtreating breast cancer? At a breast cancer conference on Friday in Barcelona, experts discussed how to implement mammogram screening programmes across Europe, balancing fighting cancer with the goal of targeting only those women who need to be screened. For years, officials have promoted breast cancer screening as the best way to spot the disease and save lives. Yet ... |
Toledo Baptist minister was L-O-F retiree
The Toledo Blade Sun, 28 Mar 2010 04:40 AM PDT
By MARK ZABORNEY BLADE STAFF WRITER The Rev. Robert P. Wormely, 76, a pastor who built his congregation on fundamentals of doctrine and Scripture, died Tuesday in his West Toledo home. He had cancer for more than two years, yet he attended Sunday services at his church, Southern Missionary Baptist, until about three weeks ago. He last preached Feb. 7. The church "was his passion, and that was ... |
How Does A Heart Know When It's Big Enough?
Medical News Today Sun, 28 Mar 2010 04:38 AM PDT
A protein discovered in fruit fly eyes has brought a Johns Hopkins team closer to understanding how the human heart and other organs automatically "right size" themselves, a piece of information that may hold clues to controlling cancer. The protein, named Kibra, is linked to a relay of chemical signals responsible for shaping and sizing tissue growth by coordinating control of cell ... |
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