Annual breast cancer checks for higher risk women 'would save lives'

Such a move could save about 50 lives a year and offer many more peace of mind, said Professor Stephen Duffy, one of Britain's top cancer screening experts.

Currently all women aged 50 to 70 are offered a mammogram every three years under the NHS's Breast Screening Programme.

But Prof Duffy, of the Wolfson Institute for Preventative Medicine in London, said there was now strong evidence that those with a moderate or strong family history of breast cancer should be offered annual mammograms from age 40.

Meghalaya to have mass breast cancer screening

Meghalaya will be the first state in India to have mass screening programmes in all its districts to detect breast, oral and cervix cancer among women, says an NGO working for cancer detection.

Roko Cancer Charitable Trust, which has embarked on a Private-Public Partnership (PPP) mode project with Meghalya government to provide and run fully-equipped mobile breast detection units, said the entire state will be covered by mass screening programme by 2013.

Now simple, cheap nuclear medicine technique to diagnose breast cancer

The Director and Chief of Nuclear Medicine, Utkal Institute of Medical Sciences, Bhubaneshwar, Birendra K Das has said scintimammography - a nuclear medicine imaging instrument - is a powerful method in the diagnosis of the breast cancer. In this procedure, manipulation of breasts such as compression required to be done during conventional mammography is not needed.

The Director who has been doing the highest number of Scintimammography in his institute in the country said that there are many techniques to detect the breast cancer and the most common being X-ray mammography which has been used for decades for early detection of breast cancer.

“But unfortunately the X-ray mammography has very poor specificity. The patients are asked further to undertake biopsy and Fine Needle Aspiration Cytology (FNAC) for the detection . Other modalities like Sonography, Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) and PET (Positron Emission Tomography) are also being used for the diagnosis,” the director said.

Dutch doctors to test new breast cancer treatment

Dutch doctors will try to administer a new treatment to breast cancer patients in December by using ultrasound heating to kill tumor cells, the world's first attempt of its kind.

Doctors will heat the breast tumors to a temperature of 60 to 90 degrees by using ultrasound technique, tumor cells die off and thus removed from the body, local press quoted sources from University Medical Center(UMC) of Utrecht as saying on Tuesday.

Paternal health 'disregarded in breast cancer cases'

Women at risk of breast cancer miss out on tests and early diagnosis because their father's family's health history is disregarded, a study has suggested.

Canadian researchers say in Lancet Oncology that women were more likely to report a history of the disease on their mother's side.

They found women with a maternal cancer history were five times more likely to be referred by family doctors.

MRI scans can lead to 'unnecessary breast surgery' for cancer patients

Women with breast cancer could be undergoing unnecessary surgery after having MRI scans, an expert warned today.

Research has revealed that magnetic resonance imaging is too sensitive and picks up harmless growths in patients who are at an early stage of the disease.MRI scans use strong magnetic fields and radio waves produce a detailed image of the inside of the breast. Unlike X-rays, they do not expose the patient to radiation.

But one study of breast cancer patients being considered for non-surgical treatment found a six per cent increase in mastectomies - or removals of the breast - in those who had a magnetic resonance mammography.

 

Models aim to trample breast cancer

Photographer Nigel Barker snaps top fashion models as they don boots to raise money to stomp out breast cancer. Gemma Haines reports.

BCF Singapore: Are you obsessed with the right things?

Are you obsessed with the right things? ask the new print ads of Breast Cancer Foundation of Singapore. But it is not the words but the images used in these ads that draw attention and require a double take. Using Kryolan body paint and Daler Rowney Expression angled brushes and sponges, illustrator Andy Yang Soo painted a model's body and photographer Allan Ng took the pictures for the ads that suggest that perhaps women should focus on health and have their breasts checked rather than obsess about their big butts, pimples and bad hair days.

Mumbai hospital's new tech helps 'predict' breast cancer

MUMBAI: A city hospital just might change the way breast cancer is treated and managed. It detects cancerous cells in their primitive avatar and even predicts future tumours. Called ductoscopy, the endoscopic technique, allows doctors access to cells that line the milk duct of the breast, where about 85-90% of cancers originate.

In a five-year long study conducted by the P D Hinduja Hospital at Mahim, doctors were able to detect and map cancerous changes in patients with nipple discharge. All the women had been given a clean chit by standard protocols like clinical examination and mammography. The doctors even managed to pick up preliminary changes in cells that could possibly turn cancerous after a decade or more. Surgical oncologist Dr Vinay Deshmane, who made the findings, said that ductoscopy can pick up early genetic changes occurring in the cells before any symptoms of breast cancer actually develop.

Breast cancer to overtake cervical cancer

By 2020, breast cancer will overtake cervical cancer, which is now the most reported cancer among women in India, the Rajya Sabha (India's upper house of Parliament) was informed.

In a written reply, Minister of State for Health S. Gandhiselvan said that by 2020, it is expected that breast cancer will overtake cervical cancer at the current rate of increase in cancer cases. But at the moment, cervical cancer tops the list of cancers detected among Indian women as it's symptoms are not easily detected.

Air travel safe for breast cancer survivors

Women who have survived breast cancer can fly without any worries, says a new study.

University of Alberta researcher Margie McNeely said that the theory that breast cancer survivors are at a risk of lymphedema, is outdated.

Women have often been warned that post breast cancer, pressure changes in an airplane cabin could trigger lymphedema, chronic swelling in the arm

Yoga for breast cancer survivors boost recovery

A research has found that the new specialized Iyengar yoga program for breast cancer survivors and those undergoing breast cancer treatment affects the recovery positively.

For two years groups of study participants were asked to fill out a questionnaire about their physical and mental health at the beginning of a 10-week session of Iyengar yoga and again at the end.

After analyzing the data that was collected, Amy Speed-Andrews of University of Alberta found that after the yoga 94 per cent said they had improvements in their quality of life; 88 per cent felt better physically; 87 per cent reported being happier and 80 per cent were less tired.

Europe breast cancer deaths fall, Britain down third: study

Breast cancer deaths dropped by more than 20 percent across 15 European countries over the last two decades, with a fall of nearly a third in Britain, according to a study published Thursday.

At the same time, the level of breast cancer mortality in eastern Europe was described as "catastrophic".

Western lifestyle behind breast cancer

Western lifestyle that encourages women to over-eat, drink too much and exercise too little is responsible for high number of breast cancer cases, say new figures.

According to data from the International Agency for Research on Cancer, the breast cancer rate in Britain is more than four times higher than in eastern Africa, which has the lowest in the world, reports the Daily Mail .

Cancer patients' support group highlights tales of hope

BANGALORE: They are leaders in their professions, family persons and unique personalities in their own way. But what makes them even more special is that they have braved cancer and bad days without losing control. The first anniversary of the `Pink Hope Patient Support Group', an informal support group for cancer patients, was observed with two experiences of courageous patients at the HealthCare Global.

SCOTS BEATING BREAST CANCER

BREAST cancer deaths plummeted to an all-time low last year as record numbers of women were screened.

The survival rate among Scotland’s breast cancer sufferers has risen by 32 per cent over the past 20 years as the number of women coming forward for screening more than doubled.

A downturn in the mortality rate means that the number of patients dying from the disease across Scotland has dropped from more than 7,200 in 1990 to around 5,400 in 2008.

Youngest man to die of breast cancer: 28-year-old fought disease for four years

The youngest man in Britain to be diagnosed with breast cancer has died aged 28.

Nicky Avery passed away in hospital on Monday after battling the disease over the past four years.

Before his diagnosis Mr Avery had no idea men could contract breast cancer, but he went on to campaign to raise awareness of the disease.

Yet Another Study Links Abortion With Breast Cancer Risk

An abortion can triple a woman's chances of contracting breast cancer, according to a study conducted in Sri Lanka.

The research, performed by scientists at the University of Colombo, showed abortion is the greatest reported risk factor for the disease, according to the Daily Mail in London. The study is the fourth in the last 14 months to demonstrate such a link, the newspaper reported June 24.

A cancer research organization in Great Britain criticized the study's size.

Joel Brind, a professor at New York University and an expert on the abortion-breast cancer link, said the sample of 100 women who have had breast cancer and 203 who have not, is "still a good study, just not quite as powerful. I would emphasize that it is typical of studies that have come out early in countries where breast cancer and abortion are not yet that common, like studies in the 1980s in China, Japan, Australia and even the U.S."

New saliva test 'can detect various cancers'

Japanese and US universities have jointly developed a medical technique that can quickly detect various cancers using a simple saliva test, researchers said on Tuesday.

Japan's Keio University and University of California, Los Angeles, have developed the technology with which they detected high probabilities of pancreatic cancer, breast cancer and oral cancer.

The researchers analysed saliva samples of 215 people, including cancer patients, and identified 54 substances whose presence can be used to detect the disease, Keio University said in a statement released Monday.

By further analysing the substances, the test detected 99 percent of pancreatic cancer cases, 95 percent of breast cancer and 80 percent of oral cancer cases among those taking part, it said.

Breast cancer kills more uninsured blacks

Underinsured African-American women die more often from breast cancer than underinsured white women, even when treated at the same hospital by the same doctors, researchers said Wednesday.

And it's not because they get different treatment, the researchers said.

"When you have the same physician pretty much giving the same treatment to all women, then African-Americans will make the same treatment decisions as everybody else," said Dr. Ian K. Komenaka, of Wishard Memorial Hospital in Indianapolis, who led the study.

Blood test detects breast cancer before any sign of a lump

A blood test that detects breast cancer more than a year before any symptoms appear could dramatically improve survival rates.

The test looks for raised levels of a certain protein that is already known to increase once cancer has developed. But in a new study, researchers found levels of the protein, called epidermal growth factor receptor, were already high up to 17 months before women were diagnosed with breast cancer.

The test, announced at the recent annual meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research in Washington DC, could herald a breakthrough in the search for a so-called 'biomarker' that indicates the presence of cancer before the patient or doctors suspect anything is wrong.

Counseling Improves Survival Rate When Breast Cancer Recurs

Breast cancer survivors facing the disease a second time are more likely to live longer if they get psychological counseling.

The new study builds on previous research into the physical benefits for cancer patients who get counseling as well as medical care.

Scotland: Older breast cancer patients 'miss out' on treatment

About 4,000 women in Scotland are diagnosed with breast cancer each year with the disease claiming more than 1,000 lives annually.

Breakthrough Breast Cancer claimed women over 80 were 40 times less likely to have surgery and less likely to receive radiotherapy or chemotherapy

U.S.-Developed Vaccine 'Could Eliminate' Breast Cancer

A doctor from the Cleveland Clinic claims he developed a vaccine that could prevent breast cancer and save the lives of millions of women, Fox8.com reports.

The treatment was tested on mice and showed "overwhelmingly favorable results.”

Dr. Vincent Tuohy, who led the research at the Cleveland Clinic in Ohio, said there was evidence in the initial tests that the vaccine could prevent cancers from forming and stop the growth of existing tumors.

Advancing breast cancer cure in Israel

The world's largest breast cancer organization is partnering with the City of Jerusalem, Hadassah and the Women's Zionist Organization of America for a week of events in Israel from October 25 to 29.

In Israel, breast cancer remains the most common form of women's cancers and is growing, accounting for nearly 30 percent of all new cancer cases in the country. About 4,000 people are diagnosed with breast cancer in Israel each year.

Survey: Women struggle with breast cancer costs

Fighting breast cancer can take a huge toll on the mind and body, but there are also significant financial costs.

A Canadian survey finds many women fighting the disease are struggling to pay the bills.

Young women are dying of breast cancer. They MUST be screened too

Highlights from an excellent article!

The figures are stark: breast cancer is the most common cause of death in women aged 35 to 54, and the incidence is rising.

It used to be said that screening would pick up only a tiny proportion of breast cancers. In fact, 35 per cent of all breast cancers are found thanks to the national screening programme in the UK.

Screening this group also requires digital mammography - X-rays that are stored and sent electronically to a computer rather than taken on film.

This is because women under 50 have denser breast tissue, making small cancers harder to find using traditional mammograms. (It's having denser breast tissue that also puts them at greater risk of developing breast cancer.)

Digital mammography is better at finding cancers in dense breast tissue than standard mammograms, but it is more expensive.

It is available only in about 15 to 20 per cent of British hospitals, compared with more than 60 per cent in the U.S.

How Happiness May Prevent Breast Cancer?

According to a new study, happiness and optimism may play a role against breast cancer while adverse life events can increase the risk of developing the disease.

A total of 622 women between the ages of 25 and 45 were interviewed: 255 breast cancer patients and 367 healthy women. The findings of the study show that there was a clear link between outlook and risk of breast cancer, with optimists 25 percent less likely to have developed the disease.

B.C. has lowest death rates for cancer in Canada

Statistics released Wednesday by the Canadian Cancer Society show that B.C. is once again leading the country in the fight against cancer.

The province has the lowest death and incident rates for cancers in Canada, much of it owing to our healthy lifestyle. (Incidence refers to the number of new cases per year.)

“B.C. continues to lead the way because of our lifestyle habits. We have lower tobacco [use] and obesity rates and higher physical activity rates, and this is paying off in lower cancer rates,” says Kathryn Seely, public-issues manager for the B.C. and Yukon region of the Canadian Cancer Society.

Massage Breasts To Thwart Breast Cancer

Women hear all the time about the importance of doing a monthly breast exam but they aren’t quite sure why they really need to do it. The monthly breast exam is actually a breast massage technique that helps a woman to thoroughly check her breasts for any abnormalities.

Farming and breast cancer linked

A startling link between farming and breast cancer in women is being studied by two former local researchers.

Jim Brophy and Margaret Keith, adjunct assistant professors at the University of Windsor, will speak about their research at a May 18 forum in Point Edward offered by Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation.

Brophy said they looked for groups in Windsor with elevated cancer risks connected to their jobs, expecting to find it in male industrial workers.

"To our surprise, the biggest group we had were women with breast cancer who had a history of farming," Brophy said.

Jazz singer's breast cancer battle at just 19

Each year 46,000 people are diagnosed with breast cancer - only four of these are under 20.

So when 19-year-old student Elisa Caleb went to her doctor with a lump everyone felt quite confident it would be benign.

Elisa was told the results were clear.

But she says they were unclear. And medics were so confident that she was too young to have the condition, they did not tell her of the uncertainty, or order any further tests.

Good vibrations: Breast cancer survivors get sex toys at Newsbabes fundraiser

Monday's breast cancer fundraiser was one of those sweet, feel-good parties with socialites dressed in pink, specialty cocktails, cotton candy, pink macaroons ... and sex toys.

Sex toys? This was news to the "Newsbabes," a group of D.C. television personalities (Andrea Rowan, Lindsay Czarniak, Pamela Brown, Laura Evans, Eun Yang) who hosted their second annual benefit for 500 guests at the Georgetown Ritz-Carlton. "The Newsbabes were kind of mortified," said WUSA's Angie Goff. "There's a time and place for everything."

Obese Women Often Miss Breast Cancer

Obese women are more likely to be diagnosed with breast cancer in later stages than women who are a normal weight, according to a study presented at the annual meeting of the American Society of Breast Surgeons (ASBrS).

Because tumors were more difficult to feel in overweight women, they were typically diagnosed after a mammogram. Obese women also had a lower overall cancer survival rate, most like due to the disease being at a later stage at diagnosis.

Breast cancer: The hide after the seek

You would think most people would have sense enough to go to a doctor to get treated after being told they have a life-threatening disease.

Apparently, it does not always happen. More so when the diagnosis is breast cancer.

True, breast-mauling surgery and hair falling in clumps can be any woman’s nightmare, but it should not frighten them into putting their lives at risk.

Ireland: Breast cancer initiative will speed up new treatments

A BREAST cancer initiative which matches the latest treatments with suitable patients will improve life expectations significantly, Minister for Health Mary Harney has said.

The National Breast Cancer Bio Resource centre will be available on a voluntary basis at the breast cancer centres in Galway, Cork, Limerick and Dublin.

The resource is a joint initiative by Aviva Health Insurance and the charity Breast Cancer Ireland. Specialist breast research nurses will facilitate the collection of serum and tissue samples, which will be used to determine the best treatment for patients.

How does race affect breast cancer risk?

It's been long known that Hispanic women are less likely to get breast cancer than white women but now a new study examines why.

Researchers at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs studied women with breast cancer. Among the white women, between 62 percent and 75 percent had known risk factors for breast cancer – behaviors or traits that have been found to increase one’s chances of getting the disease, for example, use of hormone replacement therapy.

Why won't women prevent breast cancer?

The results are in and clear -- taking a pill a day for five years can slash the risk of breast cancer. But high-risk women are still reluctant to do it.

The cancer specialists who have been comparing the drugs raloxifene and tamoxifen rushed out updated findings to a meeting on Monday, showing that tamoxifen lowers the risk of breast cancer in high-risk women by 50 per cent, compared with 38 per cent for raloxifene. Overall, both drugs saved lives, they told the American Association for Cancer Research meeting.

Women who put on weight as they age increase breast cancer risk: research

Researchers have found that a woman who is 5'4 tall who puts on just over two stone between the age of 20 and 50 is almost twice as likely to develop breast cancer after the menopause.
The findings back up earlier research which has linked obesity to breast cancer.

Fat stored in the body produces hormones and chemicals which may fuel the development of abnormal cells and lead to cancer, it is thought.

Technology expands breast cancer screening options

Breast-cancer-screening isn't like looking for a needle in a haystack. It's harder. It's like looking for needles in a big field of haystacks, where some of the haystacks have needles, while most don't, but you don't know which are which, so you have to look in all of them.

Mammography is the best technique available right now to look for breast cancers in women who don't have any symptoms. On average, screening mammograms correctly identify 80% to 85% of women who have cancer and about 90% of women who don't.

Technologies featured:

Digital mammography
Computer-aided detection
Stochastic resonance
Digital tomosynthesis
Stereoscopic mammography
Ultrasound (sonography)
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)
Electrical impedance scanning (EIS)
Scintimammography (molecular breast imaging)

Clinic denies man breast cancer screening because he's not a woman

A man whose parents both had breast cancer and who developed the same worrisome symptoms as his dad was denied a mammogram at a local health clinic - because he’s a man, according to ABCNews.com.

Whale Helps Support Breast Cancer Awareness

Although Jodie did the paddling on her own, she wasn’t exactly alone; a 30-foot minke whale followed her for about an hour and a half, blowing bubbles and showing her his belly. "It was the most beautiful thing I've ever seen in my life," she said.

Despite Recent Arguments, Breast Cancer Screening Saves Lives

British researchers have taken on recent critics of regular screening for breast cancer and found that mammograms save the lives of two women for every one that is given unnecessary treatment and that the benefits clearly outweigh the harm.

Experts: Third of breast cancer is avoidable

Up to a third of breast cancer cases in Western countries could be avoided if women ate less and exercised more, researchers at a breast cancer conference said Thursday - comments that could ignite heated discussions among victims and advocates.

Many breast cancers are fueled by estrogen, a hormone produced in fat tissue. So experts suspect that the fatter a woman is, the more estrogen she's likely to produce, which could in turn spark breast cancer. Even in slim women, exercise can help reduce the cancer risk by converting more of the body's fat into muscle.

Bizarre Breast Cancer Ads

And the winner of the most sexist breast-cancer campaign is....

A letter sent to (mostly male) company directors at a hospital in Poland urged male managers to encourage their female employees to get mammograms. Sounds like a good plan, except the letter contained the campaign slogan, "I check the breasts of my employees myself." Feminist groups in Poland say the slogan is inviting sexual harassment. Whoops.

Check out more breast cancer-awareness ads that think far outside the bra.
(Sometimes too far ....)

Would You Pay $20 for Access to a Breast Cancer Cure?

It seems safe to describe Andrew Hessel as an unbridled optimist. After all, he’s selling $20 shares in a journey toward a personalized cure for breast cancer, which he says could be feasible in the next few years.

Mr. Hessel serves as the managing director of the Pink Army Cooperative. This Canadian organization has set out to lower the cost of cancer treatments while also making them more effective by embracing a new wave of synthetic biology technology (a field that was recently the subject of a piece in The New York Times Magazine).

Asians differ when it comes to rates of disease

Breast cancer has long been considered less of a problem for Asian women than for any other ethnic group. That's true for Asian women as a group, but when Bay Area researcher Scarlett Lin Gomez divided Asians into different nationalities, she found that Japanese women have rates of disease similar to white women.

Free sports prostheses for breast cancer patients

Cancer patients in Wales who request a specialist sports prosthesis following breast surgery are to receive it free on the NHS.

Breast cancer incidence among Iraqi women profiled

Breast cancer continues to rise in Iraq, and scientists have established the Iraqi National Cancer Research Program to better understand the underlying molecular and environmental causes in an effort to curb the incidence of cancer.

The couple who both beat breast cancer

The chances of a husband and wife both being struck by breast cancer have never be calculated, but Tim and Gisela are the only known couple in the UK.

Freezing Technique May Stop Breast Cancer

Freezing breast tumors helped stop the spread of the cancer in mice, a new study has found.

Bare boobs battle breast cancer

Hundreds of women across the country are baring their breasts for a new project to support breast health.

“b for a cure,” the brainchild of San Francisco photographer Peter Bruce, will compile black and white photographs of more than 300 women’s breasts in a coffee table-style book, with proceeds going to breast-health charities.

HPB commissions movie with breast cancer as theme

The Health Promotion Board (HPB) is hoping a movie will encourage more Singaporean women to go for regular breast cancer screening.

With this aim in mind, it is collaborating on a movie project which captures the story of a 40-year-old mother battling terminal breast cancer.

Thermography: Another Tool To Help Prevent Breast Cancer

"Our camera captures a picture of the heat emitted to the surface of the body. Certain thermal findings or warning signs or risk factors, particularly in our breasts," said Thermographic Technician Tirza Derflinger of the Thermogram Center in Lakewood.

INDIA: New breast cancer screening technology introduced

For the first time in India, Siemens Healthcare today introduced a breakthrough innovation called Automated Breast Volume Scanner (ABVS) at Jaslok Hospital & Research Centre, Mumbai.

Breast cancer screening: No added value through mammography

For young women at high and moderate increased risk of breast cancer, the results of the EVA trial confirm once more that magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is substantially more accurate for early diagnosis of breast cancer than digital mammography or breast ultrasound.

Ways To Help Your Girlfriend with Breast Cancer

Denise Hazen volunteers with the Pink Ribbons Project in Houston, Texas and has written a book about her experience. But the book isn't just a breast cancer memoir. Treat Her Like a Princess: How to Help Your Girlfriend with Breast Cancer is full of practical advice for patients and supporters.

Hand-held tool shows breast tumours

The Breastlight, a hand-held device which emits a safe, LED-powered light, picked up 67 per cent of malignant tumours in a trial conducted at Sunderland City Hospital, which is due to be published this year. A previous trial was conducted in Ghana by a charity which has been using Breastlight as part of their screening process when examining women in rural areas. The results were published last year at the African Breast Cancer Conference in Cairo, Egypt, and reported a success rate of 96 per cent. Mammographies typically pick up between 60 and 85 per cent of cancers. The torch can even spot tiny lumps which are not considered large enough to be felt during a physical examination.

Northern Ireland alcohol and cancer link highlighted

An alcohol awareness campaign has been launched to encourage women to drink less in an attempt to lower their risk of breast cancer.

The 'Reduce your drinking, reduce your risk of breast cancer' initiative was developed by the Public health Agency.

110 breast cancer deaths daily in Pakistan

At least 40,000 deaths are caused by breast cancer annually in the country and 250 female patients are registered daily in hospitals while the daily death rate is approximately 110 patients.

Racial Disparities Persist in Diagnosis of Advanced Breast, Colon Cancer

The incidence of advanced breast cancer diagnosis among black women remained 30 percent to 90 percent higher compared to white women between 1992 and 2004, according to new findings by researchers at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center.

Breastlight Review: TakTik Tech

I first saw the Breastlight in my local Boots Pharmacy. Intrigued I looked them up online as soon as I got back to my laptop and within days we had a Breastlight heading our way. The Breastlight people are quite keen to spread the word and with good reason - the later the stage of Breast Cancer at diagnosis, the lower the survival rate (up to a 79% difference 5 years after diagnosis).

State ends free mammograms; cuts to be protested

Top officials of Dallas-based Susan G. Komen for the Cure, the world's largest network of breast cancer patients, are concerned that cuts to the screening program in California will become a national trend as revenue-challenged states seek ways to cut costs, said Katie Parker, executive director of the group's Inland Empire affiliate in Temecula.

World Cancer Day: Early detection key to tackling breast cancer

Onserving the World Cancer Day on Thursday, Ushalakshmi Breast Cancer Foundation (UBF) in partnership with Krishna Institute of Medical Science will be organising a free cancer screening for 200 underprivileged women from the Ranga Reddy district free of cost, with a contribution of Rs 2 lakh contributed by UBF.

India: Cancer may soon become a notifiable disease

If all goes well, cancer will soon be a notifiable disease. Cancer experts from across the country who congregated in the city to brainstorm over National Cancer Control Programme (NCCP) said the disease should be declared notifiable in six months’ time.

Breast cancer support group launched in Doha

Qatar National Cancer Society (QNCS) chairman Sheikh Khalid bin Jabor al-Thani said at a press conference that the organisation has been working for the last 10 years to set up the group, which would provide support to patients “who are newly diagnosed with the disease".

Breastlight in Boots: A Case Study

Breastlight was launched on Boots.com at the beginning of September 2009 and in-store during October with the help of the Boots Centre for Innovation.

Breastlight: Cancer early warning or false reassurance?

A powerful torch with a bright-red beam, shown to be effective in detecting malignant breast tumours – could be the answer to anyone worried about the effectiveness of self-examination.

Advanced Stage Breast Cancer Burden to Middle East Women

“80 per cent of women who develop breast cancer in the Middle East are found to be at an advanced stage where treatment is much more difficult and the chance of cure is very low,” says Dr Nagi F. Khouri, MD, Associate Professor of Radiology and Oncology and Director of the Division of Breast Imaging at Johns Hopkins Medicine in Baltimore, USA

Early detection key to tackling breast cancer: Shabana Azmi

Ms. Shabana Azmi, actor and social activist, was the chief guest at the launch of country’s first Mobile Mammography Unit (MMU) in Goa on Tuesday. Chief Minister Digambar Kamat, Goa Assembly Speaker Pratapsingh Rane, Health Minister Vishwajeet Rane, Chief Secretary Sanjay Srivastava and Health Secretary Rajiv Verma were present.

Mammography availability linked to breast cancer mortality rate

Breast cancer mortality rates ranged from 34.1 per 100,000 women in counties with no mammography facilities to 27.5 in those with at least one, said Dr. Kandace Klein, a fourth-year radiology resident.

Revealing Facebook posts promote cancer awareness

Facebook took a colorful turn this week, when its female users began posting cryptic status updates.

"Beige," "sexy black and gold," "crimson red," "turquoise," "nude with a lot of padding," read some.