March 10, 2010–Washington, DC–On February 23, 2010 the One hundred eleventh Congress of the United States did  pass this Concurrent Resolution to establish an “Early Awareness” month for Breast Cancer and all cancers. A concurrent resolution (H.Con.Res. or S.Con.Res.) like this one in the U.S. Congress is a legislative proposal that must be passed by [...]

ScienceDaily (Mar. 5, 2010) — A new study, led by researchers at the Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center, demonstrates that acupuncture may be an effective therapy for joint pain and stiffness in breast cancer patients who are being treated with commonly used hormonal therapies.Results were published in the Journal [...]

In January, the IBCI and CAPMM launched the PINC Trial, short for Preventing Invasive Breast Neoplasia with Chloroquine. This three-year clinical trial will test the effectiveness of the anti-malarial drug chloroquine in treating 90 women with ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS), a type of breast cancer in which the cancer cells start in the milk [...]

“You have breast cancer.” Many of us either know someone who has received that diagnosis or have heard those scary words ourselves. Although breast cancer is still the second most common cancer among American women (behind skin cancer), rates have been declining by about 2 percent a year since 1999, after having increased for the [...]

February 27, 2010
BY MONIFA THOMAS Staff Reporter
A growing number of women with cancer in one breast choose to have their other, healthy breast removed in hopes it will prevent a second cancer. But new research finds that elective surgery improved survival in only a small group of women — those who are under 50 and [...]

Wednesday, February 17, 2010
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Breast cancer survivors who take aspirin regularly may be less likely to die or have their cancer return, U.S. researchers reported Tuesday.
The study of more than 4,000 nurses showed that those who took aspirin — usually to prevent heart disease — had a 50 percent lower risk of dying from breast cancer [...]

The finding, reported online Feb. 12 in The FASEB Journal, provides new insight into the biological roots of that resistance, and also tests a novel way to get around it.
“A solution to tamoxifen resistance is sorely needed, and if a strategy like this can work, it would make a difference in our clinical care of [...]

ASA increases chance of breast cancer survival: study
Updated: Tue Feb. 16 2010 7:10:40 PM
CTV.ca News Staff
Breast cancer survivors who regularly take acetylsalicylic acid may be less likely to see their cancer return, a new study suggests.
The study of more than 4,000 nurses with breast cancer, published Tuesday in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, showed that [...]

PETERSBURG – More than ever before, a diagnosis of breast cancer need not be a death sentence, but women need to take an active role in helping spot the disease as early as possible.
That was the message Thursday from Paint It Pink Petersburg, a coalition formed in 2008 to promote breast cancer awareness and provide [...]

February 5, 2010
Finding Your Tribe
Your Allies On Life’s Journey
Our tribe members are those people who accept us as we are and gladly accompany us on our journeys of evolution.
Part of being human is the search for an individual identity. Bound to this strong need to establish a unique persona, however, is an equally intense desire [...]