Wed, 10 Dec 2008 17:44:42 +0000
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Sat, 06 Dec 2008 23:50:47 +0000
CHICAGO- Is a two-day dose of accelerated partial-breast irradiation (APBI) effective in the long term for patients with early-stage breast cancer? Does it represent a radical treatment improvement as well as offering the potential to slash radiation treatment costs?
Mon, 01 Dec 2008 20:09:22 +0000
Women who have had their breasts augmented with implants and are later diagnosed with early-stage breast cancer may be treated successfully with a partial-breast radiation treatment known as brachytherapy, according to an Arizona physician and researcher.
Wed, 12 Nov 2008 20:10:42 +0000
Shorter courses of treatment are as effective as longer courses for early-stage breast cancer, a new study shows.
Tue, 28 Oct 2008 04:00:52 +0000
Good story on the MammoSite, but again there?s not enough real clinical information available simply due to time and the short amount of time the product has been on the market. Radiation treatment through a catheter for breast certainly offers a much shorter treatment time by comparison, but each case is it?s own
Wed, 24 Sep 2008 06:48:12 +0000
Brief and intensive radiation therapy for early stage breast cancer is equally as effective as the current five-to-seven week treatments, according to medical research presented on Monday.
Tue, 23 Sep 2008 04:41:51 +0000
WASHINGTON (Reuters)- Shorter, more intense courses of radiation treatment work just as well as more drawn-out therapy for early-stage breast cancer patients, researchers reported on Monday. The treatments took only one to three weeks, as opposed.
Mon, 22 Sep 2008 19:26:16 +0000
Shorter courses of treatment are as effective as longer courses for early-stage breast cancer, a new study shows.
Sun, 21 Sep 2008 21:36:57 +0000
Researchers discuss the benefits of accelerated hypofractionated whole breast irradiation. This new approach is 2/3 the cost of the standard whole breast radiation, less expensive then other new approaches such as partial breast irradiation and is just, if not more effective. Learn more about tis approac and oter treatments at
Mon, 15 Sep 2008 11:08:04 +0000
There are a number of treatments of breast cancer options for women such as radiation therapy, surgery, chemotherapy, biological therapy and hormone therapy. Treatments of breast cancer are decided by first determining the stage of cancer.
Sun, 10 Aug 2008 05:00:08 +0000
Breast cancer is a cancer in the breast. This cancer is generally happen to women. Men are able to attack by this cancer even though its chance is very small, up to 1 in 1000. Generally treatment use to kill this cancer cell is using the surgical operation and moreover done with chemotherapy or even breast cancer radiation.
Thu, 10 Jul 2008 23:59:35 +0000
Dysregulation of normal apoptotic mechanisms provides a growth advantage to cancer cells [1]. In breast cancer, dysregulated apoptotic pathways include down-regulated death receptor pathway function,mutations, and abnormal bcl-2 pathway function [2-4] Furthermore, breast cancer treatments including chemotherapy, radiation therapy and hormonet
Wed, 02 Jul 2008 16:24:42 +0000
Radiation therapy remains one of the most common tools for breast cancer treatment, but it has been refined considerably over the years.
Mon, 30 Jun 2008 05:59:08 +0000
Just like as the case occurred with 60 years old Terri Harlow, when she had to decide between two types of Breast Cancer treatments, one the six- week-long whole breast radiation and a newer one that is called MammoSite radiation
Tue, 27 May 2008 04:42:46 +0000
Understanding Lumpectomy: A Treatment Guide for Breast CancerApproximately 44% of women with breast cancer treat it with a lumpectomy and radiation therapy
Mon, 24 Mar 2008 19:18:49 +0000
Sarah Park at HealthCentral pointed me to a personal story from Natalia Hernandez (pictured above on right), a 27-year-old woman living with stage four (metastatic) breast cancer. Natalia started radiation treatment 18 days prior to writing this.
Tue, 29 Jan 2008 23:10:47 +0000
A study from researchers at Columbia University set out to determine why breast cancer treatment still varies among similar patients. In particular, they looked at radiation treatment given to women after lumpectomy. The treatment is considered a standard of quality cancer care and has been shown to reduce breast cancer recurrence and mortality.
Thu, 17 Jan 2008 18:53:44 +0000
Catheter-delivered radiation treatment device, launched by SenoRx, is latest in new field of partial-breast-radiation therapies.
Tue, 08 Jan 2008 21:00:38 +0000
Despite a 1990 consensus recommendation from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) that lumpectomy plus radiation was the treatment of choice for early stage breast cancer, the United States continues to have the highest rate of mastectomy surgery among industrialized countries.
Mon, 19 Nov 2007 18:45:13 +0000
For every 2,000 women who use mammography to screen for breast cancer in a ten-year period, ten healthy women will be diagnosed incorrectly with breast cancer and will be treated unnecessarily. Such treatments may include lumpectomies, mastectomies and radiation therapy. "Since the benefit achieved is marginal, the harm caused is substantial.
Mon, 05 Nov 2007 17:11:27 +0000
A five day course of radiotherapy to treat breast cancer may, in some cases, expose as much lung and heart tissue to potentially toxic radiation as does the standard six weeks of treatment, say researchers at Mayo Clinic Jacksonville.
Mon, 24 Sep 2007 23:46:20 +0000
Treatment of breast cancer often involves local therapy, such as surgery and radiation, as well as systemic (whole-body) therapy such as chemotherapy, hormonal therapy, and targeted isions about the need for systemic therapy, and about the most appropriate types of systemic therapy, depend on many factors, including tumor size, wheth
Mon, 10 Sep 2007 17:39:30 +0000
I don?t know why it took a formal study to find out that there is longterm fatigue following breast cancer treatments. All you would have to do is hang out an oncologist?s office and ask the women who are waiting for their follow-up checkups.
Fri, 10 Aug 2007 14:21:18 +0000
Women with early-stage cancerof the left breast who are treated with radiation as acomponent of breast-sparing treatment, have an increased riskof developing radiation-related coronary damage, researchersreport.
Wed, 30 May 2007 11:41:46 +0000
Increasing radiation dose shortens treatment time for women who choose breast sparing treatment. Radiation therapy after lumpectomy for early-stage breast cancer can be safely delivered in higher daily doses to greatly reduce treatment time.
Thu, 12 Apr 2007 22:55:17 +0000
Terry Wicks took Pempro for about 17 years- back then, hormone replacement therapy was the cure for menopausal side effects. Back then, nobody knew it could cause breast cancer and Wicks didn't give it a second thought; she was an athlete, in perfect health. But last year she finished 33 radiation treatments.
Sat, 07 Apr 2007 05:07:53 +0000
Treating cancer with surgery, chemotherapy or radiation may sometimes cause tumors to spread and U.S. researchers said on Thursday they may have nailed down one of the causes- a compound called TGF-ts in mice show that using the chemotherapy drug doxorubicin or radiation both raised levels of TGF-beta, which in turn helped breast can[.]
Sat, 24 Feb 2007 21:03:58 +0000
A woman died from a 'delayed reaction' to the radiation treatment she received for breast cancer over 30 years ago, an inquest has heard.
Wed, 15 Nov 2006 11:03:15 +0000
The study could have an impact on the cost of breast cancer treatment. If it can be determined if radiation therapy will not increase survival rates of those patients who are low risk, it could save the medical community and patients thousands of dollars.
Wed, 08 Nov 2006 20:40:18 +0000
A form of radiation treatment used to fight breast cancer may deliver higher doses of radiation to the heart than previously believed, new research shows.
Tue, 07 Nov 2006 14:14:08 +0000
Internet Tool Predicts Cancer Return. Women who undergo surgery for breast cancerbreast cancer may soon be able to use a Web-based tool to find out whether they will benefit from radiation treatment, researchers report.
Sat, 23 Sep 2006 09:38:55 +0000
Many breast cancer patients often do not clearly understand the role of radiation in the overall treatment plan so make sure that your treatment team explain in full.
Thu, 20 Jul 2006 17:32:49 +0000
Dr. Maitland DeLand, a radiation oncologist in Lafayette, LA, has found that following radiotherapy for breast cancer, exposing women to low energy non- thermal light-emitting diode photomodulation can significantly reduce painful, treatment interrupting skin reactions.