April 4, 2011–Medical News Toady–For women with ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS), adding radiation therapy and/or tamoxifen to treatment lowers the risk of the recurrence of aggressive cancer, doctors at Allegheny General Hospital and the National Surgical Adjuvant Breast Bowel Project revealed in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.
DCIS is the most common form of breast cancer.
Head [...]

Demi Moore is set to direct a short movie on breast cancer awareness for Lifetime network
Moore is teaming up with singer Alicia Keys, actress Jennifer Aniston and filmmaker Patty Jenkins, who are all creating and directing individual short films, to explore the impact of breast cancer on people’s lives, reports The Hollywood Reporter.
“Project Five” will [...]

Did you know that The Mount Sinai Medical Center is a leader in cancer prevention, detection, research, and treatment? Nearly one-third of Mount Sinai’s strategic investments have been for cancer care and research. As part of this commitment, a new cancer center is being unveiled this month at Mount Sinai, as The Dubin Breast Center [...]

As a medical student 20 years ago, I learned all about anatomy, physiology and pharmacology. My professors also taught me, implicitly, how to put on the white doctor coat as a shield against human vulnerability. With the coat on, you could get right up close to frailty, even touch it, and it wouldn’t be able [...]

Using nanodiamonds, tiny particles of carbon, as a drug delivery system, researchers have developed a promising approach to treating breast and liver cancer tumors that are resistant to chemotherapy.
Led by Dr Dean Ho, an associate professor of biomedical engineering at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, US, the researchers used lab mice to test how effectively [...]

Scientists from the Women’s Health Initiative have found a relationship between obesity, physical activity and triple-negative breast cancer, a subtype of breast cancer characterized by a lack of estrogen, progesterone and HER2 expression. Triple-negative breast cancers account for about 10 to 20 percent of all breast cancers and are associated with an extremely poor prognosis [...]

PHOENIX – It’s the new tool in fighting breast cancer. The FDA just approved a new type of mammogram that gives doctors a better view — in 3-D.
One in 8 women in the U.S. will develop breast cancer. Starting April 1, women can get a 3-D mammogram at John C. Lincoln Breast Health and Research [...]

March 11.2011–Medical News Today–Women with ductal carcinoma in situ – DCIS – who later develop invasive breast cancer in the same breast are at higher risk of dying from breast cancer than those who do not develop invasive disease, according to a study published online March 11 in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.
Retrospective studies of [...]

Philadelphia-area oncologist steps up work after surviving breast cancer
By Marie McCullough
Inquirer Staff Writer
Eleven months ago, Lankenau Medical Center oncologist Marisa Weiss was forging ahead with her latest project, a step-by-step guide to reducing the risk of breast cancer.
That’s when a mammogram revealed her breast cancer.
The painful irony is not lost on her: “Here I am, [...]

My mother was beautiful.
We all know our mothers are beautiful. But Mom was movie-star lovely. Tall and slender with masses of dark hair, dewy brown eyes, and cheekbones to die for, she could have stepped right out of an RKO feature film.
She must have been surprised, after growing up as an only child, to marry [...]