Chatelaine–Toronto, Canada–May 13, 2011–Patti Hansen targets breast cancer with daughters Theodora and Alexandra Richards
The first lady of rock talks about her 28-year marriage to Keith Richards, her wild-child days & the frightening diagnosis she had to share with her kids
LOOK AT ANY PHOTO OF PATTI HANSEN and her Rolling Stones husband, Keith Richards, and the [...]

2011 MAY 14 – (VerticalNews.com) — Kohl’s Department Stores (NYSE: KSS) invites customers to take the fight against breast cancer into the kitchen with new Kohl’s Cares(R) cause merchandise created by Food NetworkTM. The exclusive merchandise, designed to support women’s health, is available in all 40 Wisconsin Kohl’s stores and online at www.Kohls.com, with 100 [...]

Breakthrough Breast Cancer scientists have hailed their discovery of three genes linked to the most common form of breast cancer as ‘like finding gold in Trafalgar Square’.
The finding could lead to new ways to treat and prevent hormonal breast cancer, which is diagnosed in 37,000 women in the UK each year, and accounts for four [...]

Moffitt Cancer Center is the first in the Tampa Bay area to acquire the INTRABEAM® System, a new radiation platform that is designed to replace as many as six-and-a-half weeks of routine radiation therapy with a single 20- to 30-minute targeted radiation treatment. This revolutionary system, which delivers a targeted, intraoperative radiation treatment directly to [...]

ScienceDaily (Apr. 23, 2011) — Exposure to air pollution early in life and when a woman gives birth to her first child may alter her DNA and may be associated with premenopausal breast cancer later in life, researchers at the University at Buffalo have shown.
The findings indicated that higher air pollution exposure at birth may [...]

Keep A Breast Foundation announces the Non Toxic Revolution campaign. The goal of the Non Toxic Revolution (NTR) is to inform and educate young people about the dangers of toxic chemicals in our environment and food supply and the link to breast cancer. The program focuses on prevention as a means to maintain long-term health [...]

April 15, 2011–Science News Daily–The SAVI® applicator for breast brachytherapy was used to safely deliver post-lumpectomy radiation therapy to a woman with breast implants, according to a newly published paper in a peer-reviewed journal. The case study showed that SAVI produced an “optimal” clinical outcome and “excellent cosmetic results that pleased the patient,” wrote the [...]

ban the bracelets, which are distributed by the Keep A Breast Foundation of Carlsbad, Calif. The nonprofit has said it sells the bracelets to engage young people in breast cancer awareness.
Easton students Brianna Hawk, then 13, and Kayla Martinez, then 12, testified that they did not intend the message to be sexual. They received in-school [...]

April 8, 2011–Katy, Tx.–Perception is a funny thing; think of it like a two way mirror. What we see ourselves, how we view ourselves, can be so different from what others perceive on the other side of the glass. Sometimes we really do need a new, different perspective; while other times we can actually do [...]

Jose Russo, MD, director of the Breast Cancer Research Laboratory at Fox Chase, is presenting the new findings at the AACR 102nd Annual Meeting 2011 on April 6.
To investigate how fish oil intensifies the effects of tamoxifen, Russo, in collaboration with a team led by Andrea Manni, MD, from Pennsylvania State University, induced mammary tumors [...]