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The University of Pittsburgh School of Nursing will host a free conference for women living with metastatic breast cancer. Adam Brufsky, M.D., Ph.D., co-director of the Magee Breast Cancer Program of UPMC Cancer Centers and medical director of the Women’s Cancer Center at Magee-Womens Hospital of UPMC, will discuss current and potential treatment options for [...]

Screening for breast cancer risk in all postmenopausal women, using a combination of risk factors and breast density, can identify women at high risk of disease, according to systematic literature reviews and meta-analyses reported in the March 10 online issue of the Journal of the National Cancer Institute. The reviews and meta-analyses also support the [...]

Breast cancer patients face many horrors, including those that arise when fighting the cancer itself. Medications given during chemotherapy can have wicked side effects, including vomiting, dizziness, anemia and hair loss. These side effects occur because medications released into the body target healthy cells as well as tumor cells. The trick becomes how to deliver [...]

Using a combination of risk factors, including breast density, provides the most accurate method to date for postmenopausal women to determine if they are at risk for developing breast cancer. That’s the finding of a new meta-analyses and literature review in the March 10th online issue of the Journal of the National Cancer Institute. The [...]

Nancy Brinker, famed breast cancer activist and founder of Susan G. Komen for the Cure, will be the 2009 recipient of the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health’s (GSPH) Porter Prize in recognition of her outstanding achievements promoting health and preventing disease. Ms. Brinker ignited the global breast cancer movement nearly 30 years [...]

The largest study of its kind to evaluate the effect of red versus white wine on breast-cancer risk concludes that both are equal offenders when it comes to increasing breast-cancer risk. The results of the study, led by researchers at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, were published in the March issue of Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers [...]

A new analysis has found that certain variations in genes that repair DNA can affect a person’s risk of developing Hodgkin disease. Published in the April 1, 2009 issue of CANCER, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Cancer Society, the study indicates that differences in these genes should be further investigated to better understand individuals’ [...]

Women at increased risk for breast cancer because of the genetic BRCA mutations are more likely to think a prophylactic mastectomy is the best way to reduce their risk for the disease, compared to other women who are at high risk, according to researchers at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center. The [...]

Sicel Technologies, Inc. announced it has received clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to begin marketing DVS®-HFT, the next-generation of the company’s original DVS (Dose Verification System) wireless implantable dosimeter that remains the only device to measure actual radiation dose at the tumor site for use in treating breast and prostate cancer patients [...]

Nancy Brinker, famed breast cancer activist and founder of Susan G. Komen for the Cure, will be the 2009 recipient of the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health’s (GSPH) Porter Prize in recognition of her outstanding achievements promoting health and preventing disease. Ms. Brinker ignited the global breast cancer movement nearly 30 years [...]