Article: FDA Approves Phase I Clinical Trial for SKCC Breast Cancer Vaccine.

Article: High-risk breast cancer predisposition genes.(Feature Article)(Report)
Advances in Breast Cancer;  March 1, 2009 ;     700+ words ...Introduction Breast cancer is an important health issue. Worldwide, more than a million women are diagnosed with breast cancer every year. In the UK, breast cancer is the most commonly occurring cancer in women. Between...

Article: Heavy silence: why no one wants to talk about obesity and breast cancer.
Reason;  April 1, 1998 ;     700+ words ...Every October, this country celebrates Breast Cancer Awareness Month. But what are we supposed...important controllable risk factor for breast cancer. No, it's not power lines or DDT or...found obesity increases the risk of breast cancer in older women. The National Cancer...

Article: Breast Cancer
Complete Human Diseases and Conditions;      700+ words ...Breast Cancer Breast cancer is a potentially dangerous tumor that develops in the cells of the breast. Cancer cells sometimes spread from the breast to other parts of the body. KEYWORDS for searching the Internet and other reference sources Mammography...

Article: Personal commitments to achieve awareness and prevention. (breast cancer)
AORN Journal;  October 1, 1998 ;     700+ words ...Breast cancer is a health issue that is a minefield of controversy...few of the issues women face when inquiring about breast cancer. In spite of heightened awareness, breast cancer death rates have not decreased in more than 50 years...

Article: Merck KGaA Initiates Phase III Study of Stimuvax in Breast Cancer.
Business Wire;  June 22, 2009 ;     700+ words ......therapeutic cancer vaccine, Stimuvax, in advanced breast cancer DARMSTADT...therapeutic cancer vaccine Stimuvax...inoperable breast cancer. The STRIDE...therapeutic cancer vaccine designed...expressed in breast cancer as well as...

Article: National Breast Cancer Awareness Month.(October )(Editorial)
AORN Journal;  October 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ...October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, and it is appropriate...estimated number of deaths related to breast cancer is 15% of the total cancer population, and newly diagnosed breast cancer cases are approximately 32% of all...

Article: Breast Cancer Awareness Month: Fear-Mongering Sells Drugs.(University of California, San Francisco web site answers questions on breast cancer)
HealthFacts;  October 1, 1999 ;     700+ words ...Now in its 15th year, National Breast Cancer Awareness Month continues to generate...likely to benefit from women's fear of breast cancer. Mainstream media have yet to take...be directly linked to promotion of breast cancer awareness. More women now overestimate...

Article: Latest breast cancer information from three experts. (Susan Love, Larry Norton, Dennis Slamon)
HealthFacts;  December 1, 1994 ;     700+ words ......annual, mid-October evening of breast cancer information at the 92nd St. Y Center...and radiation in the treatment of breast cancer. Though it went unmentioned, the U.S. death rate from breast cancer has remained virtually unchanged...

Article: The breast cancer and the environment research centers.(Essay on: Breast Cancer Research)
Environmental Health Perspectives;  August 15, 2005 ;     700+ words ...The Breast Cancer and the Environment Research Centers...an innovative scientific approach. Breast cancer remains the most common invasive...2005). After neoplasms of the lung, breast cancer is the second leading cause of cancer...

Article: Women & living with breast cancer today.
National Women's Health Report;  October 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ......Dobren's mother was diagnosed with breast cancer 30 years ago, the cancer had already...Dobren herself was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1995 during a routine mammogram...telling her that these days, metastatic breast cancer can be treated as a chronic disease...

Article: Breast cancer: the poor relation of cancers. (includes related articles on breastfeeding, mammography and Imperial Chemical Industries)
Special Delivery;  December 22, 1993 ;     700+ words ...Breast cancer is one of the fastest growing killers...see The Numbers, p. 4). Incidences of breast cancer are up 53 percent since 1950. Today...one in fourteen in 1960). Although breast cancer accounts for 32 percent of cancers...

Article: breast cancer
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition;      700+ words ...cancer that originates in the breast. Breast cancer is the second leading cause of cancer...gradual increase in the incidence of breast cancer since the early 1970s, but because...the possibility that a woman will get breast cancer, although not all women with breast...

Article: Breast cancer risk and immune responses in healthy women.(Clinical report)
Oncology Nursing Forum;  November 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ......findings of objective and subjective breast cancer risk assessments and their association...healthy women with a family history of breast cancer. Data Sources: Published articles and...Healthy women with a family history of breast cancer have shown decreased immune responses...

Article: Weight Gain Hurts Breast Cancer Survival
AP Online;  December 7, 2007 ;     486 words ...Breast cancer patients might have a powerful incentive...woman gains after being diagnosed with breast cancer, the chances of it proving fatal go...may be especially important after breast cancer. There was a significant trend between...