This work was described in the August 1, 2011 issue of the journal Genes & Development. Results from this study and ongoing research at UVA Health System could lead to the development of more effective drugs and even the advancement of personalized medications to treat breast cancer.
The new model represents a major scientific milestone — [...]

September 26, 2011
Days of Affirmation
Sending Love Ahead to Your Day
Send love to your day ahead and remember to stop and catch the miracles.
Upon waking, many people consider the coming day with trepidation. Because of the natural human tendency to focus on what we fear or dislike, it is easy to unwittingly send a message of [...]

August 31, 2011
Remember the Sun
The Sun Is Always Shining
If darkness has fallen, we know that the sun is still shining at this very moment somewhere not too far away.
There are times when gloom or darkness causes us to momentarily lose sight of the light. Although it is at these times when the thought of the [...]

The most common breast cancer uses the most efficient, powerful food delivery system known in human cells and blocking that system kills it, researchers report.
This method of starving cancer cells could provide new options for patients, particularly those resistant to standard therapies such as tamoxifen, Georgia Health Sciences University researchers said.
Human estrogen receptor-positive breast cancer [...]

By Amanda Gardner
HealthDay Reporter
TUESDAY, Sept. 6 (HealthDay News) — Younger women with breast cancer who undergo a lumpectomy to remove their tumor survive just as long and aren’t any more likely to have a recurrence than women who opt for the more radical and disfiguring mastectomy, or removal of the entire breast, two new studies [...]

September 2, 2011–Glamour magazine boasts a superstar packed cover for their October 2011 issue with Alicia Keys, Jennifer Aniston andDemi More. Each star appears fresh-faced while sharing a group hug.

The lovely and talented ladies came together to dish about a new project they’re involved with called Five, a series of short films about women fighting breast cancer. [...]

August 22, 2011
Giving the Gift of You
Serving Your Community
Being of service to our community is part of being a good citizen of the planet earth.
To live harmoniously, we need to be supportive and helpful to all people, creatures, and plant life that share this earth with us. While “being of service” is part of being [...]

The study also finds that black women who breastfeed their babies can lower their odds of developing this cancer back down again.
The study, published Tuesday in the journal Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention, followed a group of 47,000 African American women from 1996 through 2009. Researchers had participants fill out, every two years, a detailed [...]

An American man with breast cancer has been denied government funded insurance coverage because he is not a woman. Raymond Johnson, a 26-year-old construction worker from Charleston, South Carolina, says he cannot afford private health insurance; he earns $9 an hour, and his medical bills are likely to run to hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Initially [...]

Interestingly, researchers found that taxoxifen combined with dasatinib, a protein-tyrosine kinase inhibitor, reverses the chemo-resistance caused by cancer-associated fibroblasts in the surrounding tissue by normalizing glucose intake and reducing mitochondrial oxidative stress, the process that fuels the cancer cells.
Previous animal studies have confirmed that combining tyrosine kinase inhibitors with anti-estrogen therapies, like tamoxifen, can prevent [...]