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A surgical technique that could help cancer victims who had mastectomies regrow their breasts will soon undergo testing by Australian scientists. If the three-year trial of the experimental stem-cell technique, called Neopec, is a success, women could form a new breast in four to six months, the Herald Sun of Melbourne reported yesterday. The surgery could take the place of breast Read more...

Almost 50 percent of women with breast cancer reported pain two to three years after treatment, researchers in Denmark said. The study, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, found younger women who had received supplemental radiation therapy were the more likely to have pain. Dr. Rune Gartner of the University of Copenhagen and colleagues questioned 3,754 women Read more...

MIAMI BEACH, Fla. -- When Sex and the City's Samantha Jones was diagnosed with breast cancer, her boyfriend pledged to stay with her through treatment. Meanwhile, celebrities such as Sheryl Crow, Kylie Minogue, Edie Falco and Christina Applegate, battled the disease single. Since October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, leading online dating sites Date.com (http://www.date.com), Read more...

October is a banner month, and the banner is pink. Besides being Vegetarian Awareness Month, it's Breast Cancer Awareness Month, and breast cancer support's signature pink ribbons are everywhere. Pink is for girls, presumably, but also for health. It's a glow of vibrancy, a bloom. But not so much if the pink comes from artificial coloring. More appropriate is a naturally pink food that's Read more...

The U.S. breast cancer death rate continues to drop more than 2 percent per year, a trend that began in 1990, researchers say. The findings, published in Breast Cancer Facts & Figures 2009-2010, also reveal over the last 10 years the rate of decline among African-American and Hispanic women has been similar to the drop among white women. However, death rates for breast cancer remain Read more...

When Dr. Todd Tuttle asks his female medical students at the University of Minnesota what they would do if they had breast cancer, he is always surprised by the large number who say they would choose to have both breasts removed, even if they didn't have to. Now, he's found a similar pattern among a few female surgeons in Minnesota. In a study published this week, he found that women surgeons Read more...

WASHINGTON -- Estrogen fuels breast cancer, yet doctors can't measure how much of the hormone is in a woman's breast without cutting into it. But a Canadian invention might change that: a lab-on-a-chip that can do the work quickly with just the poke of a small needle. Several years of study are needed before the experimental device could hit doctors' offices, but the research Read more...

Vigorous exercise lowers breast cancer risk in older women, U.S. researchers found. The study, published in the journal BMC Cancer, found women who reported exercising more-than-moderately for seven or more hours a week were 16 percent less likely to develop breast cancer than those who did not exercise. However, the study which also surveyed activity at various age levels in the more Read more...

When a family member is stricken with cancer, it's natural to want to do something. That was certainly the case for Sally-Ann Roberts (left) and Dorothy Roberts McEwen (right) when their younger sister, Robin, co-anchor of ABC's Good Morning America, was diagnosed with breast cancer two years ago. They rushed from Louisiana and Mississippi to to be by Robin's side in New York, when she had a Read more...

Experts have gathered the strongest evidence yet that a woman's lifestyle is linked to her risk of developing breast cancer. The biggest ever review of research into the issue has concluded that women should limit alcohol, take exercise and maintain a healthy weight. More than four out of 10 cases of breast cancer could be prevented if women adopted healthier lifestyles, experts have Read more...

Women treated for breast cancer are warned to avoid heavy lifting -- including groceries, babies, and hefty handbags -- for fear they'll develop chronic arm swelling. A new study led by University of Pennsylvania researchers shatters this guidance. By lifting weights twice a week for a year, breast-cancer survivors with the swelling had fewer debilitating symptoms and flare-ups, even as they Read more...

Breast cancer patients with even the tiniest spread of the disease to a lymph node have a much higher risk of it recurring years later and may need more treatment than just surgery, new research suggests. For years, doctors and patients have struggled with what to do about a microscopic tumor or stray cancer cells in a lymph node. Women with "micro tumors" usually are given Read more...

U.S. researchers say they've discovered specialized complex sugar molecules called glycans can act as tumor suppressors in breast and prostate cancers. The Burnham Institute for Medical Research scientists said the glycans play a critical role in cell adhesion in normal cells, and their decrease or loss leads to increased cell migration by invasive cancer cells and metastasis. The Read more...

Turmeric may help lower risk of breast cancer after exposure to hormone replacement therapy, U.S. researchers say. The study, published in the journal Menopause, found curcumin -- a component of the spice turmeric -- delayed the first appearance, decreased incidence and reduced multiplicity of progestin-accelerated tumors in an animal model. Progestin is a synthetic progestagen that has Read more...

Metabolic syndrome -- a risk factor for heart disease and diabetes -- may play a role in the risk of post-menopausal breast cancer, U.S. researchers said. The metabolic syndrome, or insulin resistance syndrome, consists of a series of factors including abdominal obesity, high blood glucose levels, impaired glucose tolerance, abnormal lipid levels and high blood pressure. It is associated with Read more...

LONDON -- One in three breast cancer patients identified in public screening programs may be treated unnecessarily, a new study says. Karsten Jorgensen and Peter Gotzsche of the Nordic Cochrane Centre in Copenhagen analyzed breast cancer trends at least seven years before and after government-run screening programs for breast cancer started in parts of Australia, Britain, Canada, Norway and Read more...

The case was fairly routine: The patient felt a lump smaller than a pea, had a mammogram, got a diagnosis of breast cancer and quickly underwent a mastectomy. What was different is this patient was a man -- Mike Nelsen, a 49-year-old high-level sales executive who never saw himself at risk. "I remember distinctly sitting in a conference room when my cell phone rang," Nelsen said Read more...

ORLANDO, Fla. -- Breast cancer survivors risk having their disease come back if they use certain antidepressants while also taking the cancer prevention drug tamoxifen, worrisome new research shows. About 500,000 women in the United States take tamoxifen, which cuts in half the chances of a breast cancer recurrence. Many of them also take antidepressants for hot flashes, because hormone pills Read more...