Hormones part of breast cancer answer

China Daily;  October 14, 2003 ;     583 words ......postmenopausal breast cancer patients. Hormonal therapy inhibits...development of breast cancer. Aromatase...newer kind of hormonal therapy, is a sensitive...Chinese breast cancer patients have not taken hormonal therapy seriously...

Roche Files Herceptin Plus Hormonal Therapy for Advanced HER2-Positive...

PR Newswire Europe;  October 13, 2006 ;     700+ words ......receptor-positive breast cancer. The application...Herceptin to hormonal therapy doubles the median...HER2-positive breast cancer patients - it...chemotherapy, hormonal therapy, or as a single...or second-line hormonal therapy) in ...

Long-term hope for breast cancer sufferers.(News)

Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales);  May 13, 2005 ;     700+ words ......cases of early breast cancer, surgery - or...Chemotherapy and hormonal therapy, such as tamoxifen...treatments in early breast cancer, to help prevent...of the Early Breast Cancer Trialists Collaborative...chemotherapy and hormonal therapy are used, ...

Breast cancer treatments less toxic, more targeted

Oakland Tribune;  October 8, 2007 ;     700+ words ......diagnosed with breast cancer. The good news...chemo- and hormonal therapy. In the past decade, breast cancer therapies have...therapy for breast cancer had involved chemotherapy or hormonal therapy, either alone...to developing breast cancer. ...

Mastectomies an archaic way of 'managing' breast cancer.(News)

Cape Times (South Africa);  October 22, 2007 ;     686 words ......in the area of breast cancer, women will be...directed at them): l Breast cancer screening is...mortality rate of breast cancer. In order to...women. l Personal breast cancer risk assessment...high risk of breast cancer, due to a family...chemotherapy. l ...

Breast cancer treatments become less toxic, more targeted

Oakland Tribune;  October 8, 2007 ;     700+ words ......diagnosed with breast cancer. The good news...chemo- and hormonal therapy. In the past decade, breast cancer therapies have...early stage breast cancer in the form...newer form of hormonal therapy, aromatase...to developing breast cancer. ...

Breast cancer: New drugs offer hope

New Straits Times;  March 25, 2004 ;     700+ words ......Section: Health BREAST cancer is a dreaded...women but today hormonal therapy can keep it in...initial diagnosis. "Hormonal therapy can be used to...recurrence of breast cancer," explains Dr...says the goal of hormonal therapy is to stop oestrogen...from ...

Do female sex hormones initiate breast cancer? A review of the evidence

Climacteric;  June 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ......hypothesis that hormonal therapy causes breast cancer are identified...suggested that hormonal therapy is associated...increase in breast cancer and then...increase in breast cancer being diagnosed...women taking hormonal therapy. Although ...

Not your mother's breast cancer treatment-or outlook

Drug Topics;  June 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ......Although the breast cancer diagnosis rate...the overall breast cancer death rate has...Treatment by stages Breast cancer treatment is...For early-stage breast cancer, the current...stage I or II breast cancer, breast conservation...of women with ...

The adjuvant advantage: breast cancer therapies promise a longer life....

Science News;  February 22, 1992 ;     700+ words ......early stages of breast cancer. A second study...will develop breast cancer at some point...new cases of breast cancer in the United...Office report on breast cancer notes an alarming...other cancers, breast cancer occurs when cells...women with early ...

Landmark Symposium Tackles Question of Why Breast Cancer Patients Don't...

U.S. Newswire;  November 3, 2005 ;     700+ words ......Many breast cancer patients...from proven hormonal therapy regimes...adjuvant hormonal therapy in postmenopausal...positive breast cancer prolongs...importance of hormonal therapy in breast cancer treatment...

Breast Cancer Treatments Linked to Age; Menopause Seen Key To Therapies'...

The Washington Post;  January 1, 1989 ;     695 words ......moderately advanced breast cancer has shown conclusively...under 50, while hormonal therapy reduces the...demonstrates that a breast cancer patient's age...cells directly. Hormonal therapy also involves...chemotherapy and hormonal therapy in ...

Mastectomy not the only cure for breast cancer

China Daily;  June 2, 2004 ;     700+ words ......professor and breast cancer expert at the...chemotherapy and hormonal therapy are now recognized...other hand, most breast cancer patients have...doctor said. Hormonal therapy is another effective...estrogen, which some breast cancer cells need ...

Breast Cancer Survivors Speak Out on Treatment Options; Findings Announced...

PR Newswire;  December 3, 2003 ;     700+ words ......of women with breast cancer would choose...reduced the risk of breast cancer mortality by...annual San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium. Compiled...nearly 1,200 breast cancer survivors and...belief systems of breast cancer patients. The...risk of dying of ...

San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium.

M2 Presswire;  December 15, 2006 ;     700+ words ......San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium(C)1994-20...evaluating the hormonal therapy Aromasin (exemestane...the San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium (SABCS...receptor-positive breast cancer who, after five...Node Negative Breast Cancer A study ...