Womens Health News

 

Drug Re-Sensitizes Breast Tumors to Treatment (HealthDay)

HealthDay - FRIDAY, Sept. 5 (HealthDay News) -- The drug sorafenib may help "re-sensitize" certain breast cancer tumors to anti-hormonal drugs, Georgetown University Medical Center researchers

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New Screening Catches More Breast Cancers (HealthDay)

HealthDay - WEDNESDAY, Sept. 3 (HealthDay News) -- While tremendous progress in screening and treatment for breast cancer has been made in recent years, some 184,000 new cases of breast cancer will be diagnosed in the United States in 2008, and about 41,000 women will die of the

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Breast cancer care faulted in community hospitals (Reuters)

Reuters - Women who have advanced breast cancer treated in a local community hospital appear to have a lower long-term survival rate than their counterparts treated at academic medical centers, a new study

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Study: New way to spot breast cancer shows promise (AP)

AP - A radioactive tracer that "lights up" cancer hiding inside dense breasts showed promise in its first big test against mammograms, revealing more tumors and giving fewer false alarms, doctors reported

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New breast cancer screening tool shows promise (Reuters)

Reuters - A new screening tool works three times better than mammography at finding tumors in women who have dense breast tissue, which can confound mammograms, U.S. researchers said on

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Racial disparities seen in U.S. breast cancer care (Reuters)

Reuters - Doctors are less likely to give black women radiation therapy after surgery to remove early-stage breast cancer than white women, researchers said on Wednesday, adding to evidence of racial disparities in U.S.

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Breast Cancer Drug Not Tied to Cognitive Decline: Study (HealthDay)

HealthDay - TUESDAY, Sept. 2 (HealthDay News) -- Contrary to previous study results, the cancer prevention drug anastrozole does not appear to cause impairment of cognitive performance, a new study

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Scottish schoolgirls get cancer jab (AFP)

AFP - Schoolgirls in Scotland became the first in the country to get a jab against cervical cancer on

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Activity key to breast cancer patients' survival (Reuters)

Reuters - Women who stay active after being diagnosed with breast cancer -- and even those who take up exercise for the first time after diagnosis -- have a better chance of surviving the disease, a new study

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Brain dysfunction may explain fibromyalgia symptoms (Reuters)

Reuters - Dysfunction in a portion of the brain may explain some of the symptoms of fibromyalgia syndrome, researchers suggest in a paper published in the Journal of

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