A study published in the January 10, 2008, edition of Cancer Investigation reports 49 proteins contained in saliva can reveal whether or not a woman has breast cancer. The findings were obtained by researchers from the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston who analyzed saliva samples from 10 healthy women, 10 women with [...]

Each year, over 100,000 women in the United States undergo surgeries to remove cancerous lumps in their breasts. Although these lumpectomies can save the patient’s life, they also leave some of these women with uneven breasts or crater-like flaws in their breast tissue that are difficult to repair. But a new technique recently tested on [...]

Scientists from the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) BioMicroMechanical Systems (BioMEMS) Resource Center and the MGH Cancer Center have developed a new microchip-based device that can isolate circulating tumor cells (CTC) in a blood sample. The new CTC-chip is a business-card sized silicon chip covered with almost 80,000 microscopic posts smaller than a human hair. The [...]

Researchers from the University of Michigan and the Mayo Clinic have performed a study showing an inherited gene that lowers levels of a key enzyme may indicate whether Tamoxifen treatments will effectively treat women with a common type of breast cancer. Tamoxifen is a Selective Estrogen Receptor Modulator (SERM) therapy prescribed to treat estrogen receptor [...]

Research conducted by the NSW Cancer Institute in New South Wales, Australia, is predicting lung cancer will soon replace breast cancer as the leading cause of cancer-related deaths among NSW women. According to the institute’s statistics, lung cancer will kill 43 more NSW women annually than breast cancer by the year 2010. And while increasing [...]

A book by 38-year-old breast cancer survivor Deanna Favre, wife of Green Bay Packers quarterback Brett Favre, is rapidly becoming one of the most popular cancer books in recent memory. The book, entitled Don’t Bet Against Me!, describes Mrs. Favre’s life including her battle against the disease which began with her diagnosis back in 2004. [...]

Some tiny freshwater fish have been providing scientists new information on Inflammatory Breast Cancer (IBC), a rare and aggressive form of the disease characterized by rapid tumor progression. Researchers at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) School of Medicine have been studying zebrafish, a minnow-like fish commonly found in aquariums, to learn more about [...]

The US Food and Drug Administration has issued new warnings on several drugs commonly prescribed for cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy treatments. The drugs, known as Erythropoiesis Stimulating Agents or ESAs, contain genetically engineered proteins used to increase red blood cell counts in many patients with cancer or chronic kidney failure. The new warnings caution that [...]

Results of a Swedish study published in the November 2007 issue of The Lancet Oncology show children of parents who survived certain cancers are more likely to survive the disease if it strikes them too. To arrive at their conclusion, researchers from the Karolinska Institutet and Stockholm Söder Hospital, studied data on over three million [...]

In this video from the Museum of Science in Boston, Dr Alan J. Fenn of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology discusses how radar technology originally developed for US Air Force missiles is now being tested as a treatment for breast cancer. The innovative process involves using targeted microwaves to shrink tumors located in breast tissue. [...]