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May 8, 2012 10:02 AM
PHOENIX (AP) - A Phoenix woman has been charged with fraud and theft after authorities say she told people she had breast cancer and needed treatment so she could get money from them to buy breast implants. Police reports filed in Maricopa County Superior Court say 27-year-old Jami Lynn Toler...
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April 20, 2012 9:55 AM
DALLAS (AP) - For years, Katie Sanchez participated in her local Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure, raising money annually to honor her aunt, cousin and a male friend - all breast cancer survivors. But when her local race rolls around this fall, she won't be there. She already...
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April 19, 2012 11:02 AM
A study recently published in the journal Nature suggests breast cancer isn't one disease, but should actually be considered 10 distinct diseases.
The study could open doors to more targeted, individualized treatments.
Researchers at the Cancer Research U.K.'s Cambridge Research Institute, along with the B.C. Cancer Agency in...
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April 17, 2012 10:21 AM
A recent study indicates that the stress of caring for a spouse with breast cancer can compromise men's immune system, leading to physical symptoms.
Men who reported the highest levels of stress in relation to their wives' cancer were at the highest risk for physical symptoms and weaker immune...
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April 13, 2012 12:39 PM
The Lexington-Fayette County Health Department plans to partner with other organizations to offer breast and cervical cancer screenings to women who otherwise might not be able to have the tests performed.
The screenings will be held 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday, April 28, at LFCHD's Public Health Clinic North, 805A...
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April 11, 2012 11:57 AM
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - A federal appeals court is considering an eastern Pennsylvania school district's efforts to ban breast cancer fundraising bracelets that say "I (heart) boobies!" Easton's The Express-Times newspaper says the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel in Philadelphia heard opening statements in the case Tuesday. Two Easton...
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April 2, 2012 10:57 AM
CHICAGO (AP) - New research suggests that long-term use of any type of hormones to ease menopause symptoms can raise a woman's risk of breast cancer. It is already known that taking pills that combine estrogen and progestin - the most common type of hormone therapy - can increase breast...
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March 7, 2012 1:17 PM
LONDON (AP) - Women who take estrogen after menopause appear to have a lower risk of breast cancer even years after they quit taking the hormone, according to a new analysis of a landmark study. The results are reassuring news for women who have had hysterectomies and use the pills...
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March 6, 2012 9:48 AM
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - There are wedding bells in Riverdale, but it's not Archie and Betty or Veronica. It's Army Lt. Kevin Keller and the physical therapist who helped him overcome his war wound - Clay Walker. Meanwhile, in the comics pages, Gil is an 8-year-old boy being raised by his...
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February 28, 2012 9:13 AM
FRANKFORT (AP) - Some people are calling on Kentucky first lady Jane Beshear to stop urging others to give contributions to breast cancer research if she's not going to make the same donation herself. Beshear has urged people for two years to mark a box on their state income tax...
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February 23, 2012 11:08 AM
A study by Healthstat indicates younger women with breast cancer detected by mammograms have better outcomes than those whose doctors found the disease during an exam.
Researchers looked at nearly 2,000 women diagnosed with breast cancer between the ages of 40 and 49. Over an 18 year period, they...
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February 17, 2012 1:10 PM
HEMPSTEAD, N.Y. (AP) - Clare Droesch was fearless on the basketball court as a player at Boston College. Now she's taking that same approach to the challenge of fighting cancer.
It's been nearly two months since the 29-year-old Droesch was diagnosed with breast cancer and she's doing everything she...
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January 26, 2012 10:43 AM
(AP) Surprising results from two new studies may reopen debate about the value of Avastin for breast cancer. The drug helped make tumors disappear in certain women with early-stage disease, researchers found. Avastin recently lost approval for treating advanced breast cancer, but the new studies suggest it might help women...
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January 23, 2012 12:23 PM
BOSTON (AP) - A federal judge in Boston has ordered 14 drug companies into talks that could lead to settlements with 53 women who claim their breast cancer was caused by an anti-miscarriage drug their mothers took decades ago. U.S. Magistrate Judge Marianne Bowler read her ruling in court Thursday...
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January 20, 2012 10:48 AM
A recent study suggests doctors may not do a very good job informing patients about breast cancer treatment options.
University of North Carolina researchers surveyed breast cancer survivors on their knowledge of the disease and report respondents typically only answered about half of the questions correctly. And less than...
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January 9, 2012 12:34 PM
BOSTON (AP) - Arline MacCormack first heard about DES from her mother when she was 17. Three decades later, MacCormack believes that the drug her mother took to prevent miscarriages caused her to develop breast cancer at age 44. MacCormack, of Newton, is one of 53 women from around the...
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January 4, 2012 11:13 AM
Debbie Hardin knew her family history of breast cancer put her at greater risk. Her grandmother on her mom's side battled the disease.
Her self-awareness likely saved her life.
Hardin began getting examinations at the relatively young age of 32.
On Nov. 28, 2008, she underwent a...
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December 20, 2011 10:04 AM
CARACAS, Venezuela-Former Miss Venezuela Eva Ekvall, whose struggle with breast cancer was closely followed by Venezuelans, has died at age 28.
Her family said Ekvall died Saturday at a hospital in Houston.
Ekvall was crowned Miss Venezuela at age 17 in 2000, and the following year she was...
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December 19, 2011 10:32 AM
(AP) - The Markey Cancer Center at the University of Kentucky is offering a new technology in its Comprehensive Breast Care Center. Digital tomosynthesis will be available for the first time in Kentucky at the center beginning in February. The process allows the technician to take multiple X-ray pictures and...
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December 13, 2011 10:11 AM
FRANKFORT (AP) - Kentucky Secretary of State Elaine Walker has completed radiation treatment for breast cancer and says she is cancer-free as she is about to begin her new post in the Department of Parks. Walker was diagnosed in October after a routine mammogram. Her office says she underwent surgery,...
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December 9, 2011 10:18 AM
SAN ANTONIO (AP) - Doctors were mostly hoping to prevent complications and relapses when they gave young women a medicine to keep their bones strong during breast cancer treatment. Seven years later, they found it did more than that: The bone drug improved survival, as much as many chemotherapies do....
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December 8, 2011 10:21 AM
SAN ANTONIO (AP) - Breast cancer experts are cheering what could be some of the biggest advances in more than a decade: two new medicines that significantly delay the time until women with very advanced cases get worse. In a large international study, an experimental drug from Genentech called pertuzumab...
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December 7, 2011 10:07 AM
SAN ANTONIO (AP) - New research casts doubt on a popular treatment for breast cancer: A week of radiation to part of the breast instead of longer treatment to all of it. Women who were given partial radiation were twice as likely to need their breasts removed later because the...
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December 6, 2011 10:25 AM
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Six weeks after revealing she has breast cancer, E! News host Giuliana Rancic says she will have a double mastectomy. The 37-year-old made the announcement Monday on NBC's "Today" show. "It was not an easy decision but it was the best decision for me," she said....
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December 2, 2011 1:27 PM
Researchers called the results of a recent study on invasive breast cancer rates among women in their forties a surprise.
The Radiological Society of North America study of women between 40 and 49 revealed those with no family history of breast cancer got the invasive disease at the same...
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November 22, 2011 9:28 AM
DALLAS (AP) - Former President George W. Bush will travel to Africa next month to raise awareness about cervical and breast cancer, an effort he calls a "natural extension" of a program launched during his presidency that helps fight AIDS on the continent. Bush, former first lady Laura Bush and...
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November 15, 2011 10:37 AM
A new study indicates breast cancer survivors run a higher risk of neurological problems, particularly those treated with chemotherapy.
The Stanford University School of Medicine study looked at 25 breast cancer patients who received chemotherapy, 19 who did not and 18 healthy women. Examinations of functional MRI data showed...
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November 14, 2011 11:17 AM
NEW YORK (AP) - Pink was Evelyn Lauder's color. In her long career as an executive at cosmetics giant Estee Lauder Cos., the company founded by her mother-in-law, Lauder worked with many shades of red, peach, bronze and even blues, but pink was the one hue that changed her life....
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November 2, 2011 12:20 PM
CHICAGO (AP) - A study suggests that women who drink just three alcoholic beverages a week face a slightly higher chance of developing breast cancer when compared to women who don't drink. The study involved more than 100,000 U.S. nurses. The link between alcohol and breast cancer isn't new. But...
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October 28, 2011 11:47 AM
According to a recent analysis of research, post-lumpectomy radiation therapy improves survival rates among women with early breast cancer, in addition to reducing the risk of breast cancer recurrence.
Several previous studies reported giving radiation therapy after lumpectomy results in a lower risk of breast cancer recurrence than lumpectomy...
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October 19, 2011 9:57 AM
A new study supports getting mammograms every other year instead of annually. It finds that more than 60 percent of women who get tested each year for a decade will be called back at least once for extra tests that turn out not to show breast cancer. Screening every other...
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October 13, 2011 10:15 AM
Yellow Cab Company painted two of its Lexington cabs pink to raise breast cancer awareness. The company will also donate $100 each week per designated "pink" cab to the American Cancer Society Making Strides Against Breast Cancer program during Breast Cancer Awareness Month.
"Every time a passenger rides in...
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October 6, 2011 10:15 AM
A drug that millions of pregnant women took decades ago to prevent miscarriage and complications has put their daughters at higher risk for breast cancer and other health problems that are showing up now, a new federal study finds. Many of these daughters, now over 40, may not even know...
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October 4, 2011 10:34 AM
NEW YORK (AP) - A breast cancer survivor says she was subjected to a humiliating public patdown at a New York airport even though she offered to produce documentation about her medical implants. Business consultant Lori Dorn said in a blog that the patdown at John F. Kennedy International Airport...
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September 30, 2011 10:38 AM
A newly released USA Today/Gallup poll reveals mixed emotions about the ubiquitous pink breast cancer awareness marketing campaign.
Nearly everybody polled (96 percent) agreed that the campaign has succeeded in raising breast cancer awareness, and 84 percent of all Americans now "shop for the cure," buying pink products with...
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September 28, 2011 10:01 AM
New research from England may alter the way doctors treat women with breast cancer.
Typically, doctors administer chemotherapy after breast surgery, followed by a regimen of radiation to kill any remaining cancer cells.
But British scientists from University Hospitals Birmingham Trust studied over 2000 women and found giving...
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September 27, 2011 10:54 AM
SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) - Officials in Savannah say they do not want bras displayed on a city street - even if the goal is to raise breast cancer awareness. City Manager Rochelle Small-Toney told council members that officials weighed the campaign with "the appropriateness of hanging underwear across one of...
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September 22, 2011 10:26 AM
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - Police in Austin say a man faked having terminal breast cancer so he could avoid meeting with his probation officer.
The Austin American-Statesman reported Wednesday that an arrest affidavit said 32-year-old Brian Jeffrey Bonniwell gave his probation officer a letter that appeared to be from...
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September 15, 2011 10:20 AM
LONDON (AP) - For years, it was assumed that young women in poor countries had a higher risk of dying in childbirth than from cancer. But a new study shows that's changing - experts say breast and cervical cancers are killing more women than labor in over 60 developing countries....
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September 8, 2011 10:31 AM
NEW YORK (AP) - NBC News' Andrea Mitchell says she has breast cancer but says it hasn't spread and calls her prognosis "terrific." Mitchell made the announcement Wednesday during her MSNBC show, "Andrea Mitchell Reports." She says the cancer was discovered during an annual screening "just a short time ago."...
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August 31, 2011 10:07 AM
The cover story in the October issue of Glamour Magazine features three mega-star women who directed short films for a two-hour Lifetime Breast Cancer Awareness Month special.
Jennifer Aniston, Demi Moore and Alicia Keys each contributed to the project. The mini-films focus on how breast cancer affects the lives...
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August 18, 2011 9:57 AM
NEW YORK (AP) - Martina McBride's new single, "I'm Gonna Love You Through It," is an inspirational song about going through cancer, and for the video, she enlisted the help of a few famous faces to convey the message. "Good Morning America" anchor Robin Roberts, singer Sheryl Crow, ABC's Katie...
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August 17, 2011 10:21 AM
A recent study indicates breast feeding reduces the risk of a certain form of breast cancer in black women..
The study, published in the journal Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention, indicates that African American women who give birth to more babies show an elevated risk for estrogen or progesterone-negative...
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August 4, 2011 10:14 AM
Decisions about referrals for breast cancer risk genetic testing for are not always consistent with guidelines, according to a survey of more than 1,800 US physicians.
Inherited mutations in two genes known as BRCA1 and BRCA2 greatly increase the lifetime risk of developing breast and ovarian cancer. Mutations in...
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August 2, 2011 10:22 AM
Despite regular checkups, Donna Antle found herself in what she calls the battle of her life.
After a self-exam, mammogram, ultrasound and biopsy, doctors finally diagnosed Antle with stage one breast cancer in 2008.
"I knew that wasn't normal and I wanted that out of me," she said....
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August 1, 2011 10:55 AM
A woman in England credits a sudden craving for lettuce for tipping her off to breast cancer.
The Daily Mail reports Elsie Campbell, 59, suddenly couldn't get enough leafy greens. She was eating up to three heads of iceberg lettuce a day.
'I'd always eaten it in salads,...
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August 1, 2011 9:45 AM
NEW YORK (AP) - A federal court says human genes can be patented, reversing a lower court's ruling that involved a test for breast cancer but which could have had wider implications for biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies. Judge Alan Lourie's ruling says the genes can be patented because the isolated...
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July 28, 2011 11:09 AM
The color pink has become pretty much synonymous with breast cancer prevention and research. The ubiquitous pink ribbon adorns everything from T-shirts to bags of potato chips. All designed to raise money for various breast cancer related causes and organizations.
But a recent study suggests all of that pink...
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July 25, 2011 11:23 AM
Processes used to search the cosmos for alien life may help diagnose breast cancer in the future.
A researcher at Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa adapted algorithms used to differentiate signals from space to aid in breast cancer detection on mammograms, according to a posting on the Healthcare Economist...
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July 21, 2011 10:16 AM
The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists made official a recommendation that women begin annual mammograms at age 40 in an announcement on Wednesday.
The guideline conflicts with a controversial 2-year-old government panel recommendation that women wait until age 50 to start annual screenings.
"Although women in their...
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July 12, 2011 9:44 AM
TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) - An Ohio Roman Catholic bishop has told the parishes and schools of his diocese to stop raising money for a national breast cancer charity. Toledo Bishop Leonard Blair said in a letter to priests and parishes over the weekend that he's concerned that Susan G. Komen...
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June 30, 2011 10:15 AM
SILVER SPRING, Md. (AP) - A panel of cancer experts has ruled for a second time that Avastin, the best-selling cancer drug in the world, should no longer be used in breast cancer patients, clearing the way for the government to remove its endorsement from the drug. The unprecedented vote...
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June 28, 2011 10:23 AM
WASHINGTON (AP) - The best-selling cancer drug in the world comes under federal scrutiny once again this week, as drugmaker Roche makes a last-ditch effort to keep Avastin approved for breast cancer, despite the government's opinion that it is ineffective against the disease. The two-day meeting at the Food and...
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June 27, 2011 11:26 AM
Nearly half of the patients battling advanced forms of breast cancer do not get the treatment they need, according to researchers at the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center.
Studies show that post-mastectomy radiation treatments increase survival rates. Multiple treatment guidelines call for it. But between 1995 and 2005, only 55...
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June 21, 2011 11:36 AM
Older women diagnosed with breast cancer are more likely to die from other causes, according to a study appearing June 21 in the journal Breast Cancer Research .
Researchers tracked more than 60,000 women 66-years-old and over for at least 12 years after a breast cancer diagnosis. Nearly half...
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June 20, 2011 10:19 AM
Young girls with a large body size may have a decreased risk of postmenopausal breast cancer compared with thinner girls, according to a study recently published in Breast Cancer Research.
Body weight appears to influence not only the risk of developing several types of cancer but also cancer survival....
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June 10, 2011 11:52 AM
DURHAM, N.C. (AP) - A North Carolina child custody dispute involving a mother's breast cancer has sparked outcry, but the story that is spreading is also mixing up the facts. A Durham judge ruled in April that primary custody of two children should go to their father in Chicago. One...
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June 7, 2011 11:25 AM
Among breast cancer patients treated with a aromatase inhibitor, those with high insurance co-payments are more likely to quit or not to take it as directed, according to a study published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology.
Each year roughly 200,000 U.S. women are diagnosed with breast cancer. Many...
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June 6, 2011 10:09 AM
SEATTLE (AP) - A high school football referee association is suing Washington state youth athletic governing bodies over the use of pink whistles for a cancer charity. The lawsuit filed last Thursday in King County Superior Court alleges that the Washington Officials Association and the Washington Interscholastic Activities Association infringed...
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June 6, 2011 9:58 AM
CHICAGO (AP) - Millions of women at higher-than-usual risk of breast cancer have a new option for preventing the disease. Pfizer Inc.'s Aromasin cut the risk of developing breast cancer by more than half, without the side effects that have curbed enthusiasm for other prevention drugs, a major study found....
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May 24, 2011 10:32 AM
Yoga may help woman going through radiation treatment for breast cancer.
A recent study conducted at M.D. Anderson Cancer Center at the University of Texas found women who practiced yoga for one hour three days per week throughout their radiation sessions maintained overall better health and demonstrated less fatigue...
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May 16, 2011 10:27 AM
Breast cancers detected in the interval between screening mammograms tend to have more aggressive characteristics than cancers detected during screening mammography, according to a study published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.
Interval breast cancers refer to cancers detected in between screening mammograms. Previous studies have suggested...
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May 9, 2011 10:50 AM
Players across baseball's big leagues took a swing a breast cancer Sunday.
Major League Baseball players used pink bats, wore pink wristbands and cleats, and donned pink ribbons during the league's annual Mother's Day event to support Susan G. Komen for the Cure Foundation.
The league will auction...
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May 3, 2011 10:23 AM
Two small scale studies suggest fewer women in their 40's opting for mammograms, possibly because some doctors no longer recommend them.
In 2009, The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force said women in their 40's might not need annual mammograms, instead recommending women get them every other year after age...
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April 28, 2011 11:26 AM
The Lexington Affiliate of Susan G. Komen for the Cure announce its 2011-2012 Board of Directors earlier this week.
Members include: Billie Dollins, President, Community Trust Bank, Stuart Hurt, Vice President, JSD Design, Anne Gorham, Past-President, Stites & Harbison PLLC, Cathryn Gibson, Secretary, Bluegrass Energy, Morgan Daulton, Treasurer, Dean...
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April 28, 2011 11:13 AM
The controversy over "I (heart) boobies" bracelets in schools continues to spread.
The Lufkin Daily News in Texas reports an eighth grade student received an in-school suspension after refusing to remove one of the bracelets, meant to support breast cancer research.
The boy's mother, Tiffany Crain, says she...
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April 22, 2011 12:52 PM
More than 250 major league baseball players will take a swing at breast cancer with pink bats on Mother's Day.
Louisville Slugger recently began turning out the pink bats at its downtown Louisville factory. Players will use them during games on May 8, Mother's Day, to benefit Komen for...
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April 20, 2011 10:46 AM
Another school has banned the controversial "I (heart) boobies" breast cancer awareness bracelet.
Watertown Middle School in Massachusetts nixed wearing the bracelets Wednesday, according to a Boston TV station. The school's assistant principal called the bracelets "frivolous" and "too provocative." But supporters say the bracelets help younger kids understand...
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April 13, 2011 10:07 AM
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Breast cancer fundraising bracelets that proclaim "I (heart) boobies!" are not lewd or vulgar and can't be banned by public school officials who find them offensive, a federal judge in Pennsylvania said Tuesday in a preliminary ruling. The ruling is a victory for two Easton girls suspended...
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April 11, 2011 9:54 AM
AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) - Phil Mickelson waited at the bottom of the ninth fairway for the green to clear when he looked over to his left and broke into a big smile. He touched two fingers to his eyes, then pointed them toward a blonde woman in a royal blue...
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April 5, 2011 9:38 AM
Smoking raises the risk of breast cancer for healthy-weight and overweight women but not for those who are obese, new research suggests. It's a first-of-its-kind finding, and even if other studies confirm it, it doesn't mean that smoking is safe for women who weigh way too much, researchers say. "Smoking...
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March 31, 2011 11:16 AM
Researchers say a diagnosis of early stage breast cancer in older women does not shorten life expectancy.
According to a study recently published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, women 67 and older diagnosed with ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) or Stage I breast cancer enjoyed survival rates similar...
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March 29, 2011 11:19 AM
Doctors have long prescribed preventative drug therapies for those diagnosed at high risk for heart disease. But similar preventative measure have not existed for cancer.
Some doctors in England think that should change. On Monday, British physicians called for a prevented regimen of Tamoxifen for women who are at...
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March 11, 2011 11:11 AM
Obese, less physically active women may be more likely to develop triple-negative breast cancer, according to a study published in Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers, & Prevention.
Breast cancers that are estrogen receptor-negative, progesterone receptor-negative, and HER2-negative are called triple-negative breast cancers. Triple-negative breast cancers tend to be more aggressive than...
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March 4, 2011 11:59 AM
An NBC "Today" show co-host will put in some time for a good cause this spring.
Hoda Kotb will serve as Survivor Ambassador and Honorary Chair for the Susan G. Komen North Jersey Affiliates' fourth annual Susan G. Komen North Jersey Race for the Cure.
The Race will...
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March 3, 2011 11:25 AM
A recently published study suggests that too many women undergo open, surgical breast biopsies instead of less invasive needle biopsies.
To explore the relative frequency of needle and surgical breast biopsies, researchers in Florida collected biopsy patient information between 2003 and 2008. Although the use of needle biopsies increased...
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February 28, 2011 10:24 AM
FRANKFORT (AP) - Kentucky first lady Jane Beshear hasn't announced who she is supporting in this year's Kentucky Oaks, but what she is supporting is clear. Beshear on Friday announced plans to again ask visitors to wear pink to the Churchill Downs event on the day before the Kentucky Derby....
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February 25, 2011 10:54 AM
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Food and Drug Administration has granted Swiss drugmaker Roche a first-of-a-kind public hearing to defend the effectiveness of its drug Avastin for treating breast cancer, just months after the agency ruled that the drug is ineffective for that use. Roche said Thursday it will make its...
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February 14, 2011 10:00 AM
A study conducted in the United Kingdom reports that early use of menopausal hormone therapy - use before or soon after menopause - may increase breast cancer risk more than later use.
For many years, hormone therapy with estrogen has provided an effective way for women to manage menopausal...
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February 9, 2011 10:09 AM
CHICAGO (AP) - Many breast cancer patients can skip aggressive lymph node surgery without increasing their chances of a recurrence or death if their disease shows limited spread, according to a study that has prompted changes in practice.
Under current guidelines, the often-debilitating surgery is done if the cancer...
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February 7, 2011 11:03 AM
The Sun Sentinel published an interesting story on how health care reform legislation could lead to some unintended consequences - steps backward in the battle to fight breast cancer.
While she says she supports the health care overhaul, Komen for the Cure founder Nancy Brinker worries that the cost...
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January 27, 2011 10:51 AM
Hot flashes, night sweats and other uncomfortable symptoms nag many women going through menopause, but there may be a silver lining.
Researchers at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center found that women who have experienced hot flashes and other symptoms show a lower incidence of breast cancer compared to postmenopausal...
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January 27, 2011 10:02 AM
WASHINGTON (AP) - Federal health officials said Wednesday they are investigating a possible link between breast implants and a very rare form of cancer, raising new questions about the safety of devices which have been scrutinized for decades.
The cancer, known as anaplastic large cell lymphoma, attacks lymph nodes...
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January 26, 2011 10:54 AM
LONDON (AP) - Poet Jo Shapcott has won Britain's lucrative Costa Book Award for "On Mutability," a collection that draws on her experience with breast cancer.
Shapcott said she was shocked to take the 30,000-pound ($48,000) prize, more often won by novelists.
She said late Tuesday the book...
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January 24, 2011 11:24 AM
A strong social support system increases the chance of surviving breast cancer and lowers the likelihood of recurrence, according to a Vanderbilt Medical Center study recently published in the J ournal of Clinical Oncology .
The study, in partnership with Shanghai Breast Cancer, evaluated a wide range of lifestyle...
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January 24, 2011 10:27 AM
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - A former Marine has filed a $16 million lawsuit against the federal government, claiming that contaminated water at Camp Lejeune caused him to contract a rare form of breast cancer. Joel Shriberg of Pinehurst said in Friday's lawsuit that he was diagnosed with the cancer in...
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January 17, 2011 10:33 AM
Treatment with a combination of chemotherapy and the investigational drug iniparib improved overall breast cancer survival by more than four months among women with metastatic, triple-negative breast cancer, according to a recent study published in the New England Journal of Medicine.
Breast cancers that are estrogen receptor-negative, progesterone receptor-negative,...
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January 12, 2011 11:27 AM
She's not old enough to wear a bra, but Aleisha Hunter battled and beat a woman's disease.
Last summer, the 4-year-old Toronto girl underwent surgery after she was diagnosed with breast cancer.
Melanie Hunter discovered the lump in her daughter's breast when she was just 2-years-old. Doctors originally...
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January 4, 2011 10:40 AM
"It happened so quick, I really didn't have time to think about it, you know?"
"It" started two years ago when Eva Wilson went in for her regular checkup. He doctor recommended a mammogram. The mammogram showed a lump, and a month later Wilson went into surgery for a...
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December 23, 2010 10:56 AM
It appears that women with early breast cancer prescribed treatment with aromatase inhibitors (AIs) are more likely to discontinue or not follow through with this therapy if insurance copayments are high.
Treatment of hormone receptor-positive breast cancer often involves hormonal therapies that suppress or block the action of estrogen....
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December 22, 2010 10:28 AM
Among women at low risk of breast cancer, postmenopausal hormone therapy with estrogen alone may further reduce the risk of breast cancer.
The conclusion came after further review of the Women's Health Initiative clinical trial of estrogen alone and were presented at the 2010 San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium...
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December 21, 2010 10:02 AM
Among women with early breast cancer, the presence of cancer cells circulating in the blood stream increased the risk of cancer recurrence and shortened survival, according to a recently published study.
Among women with metastatic breast cancer (cancer that has spread to other sites in the body), detection of...
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December 15, 2010 10:38 AM
A University of Michigan study indicates that a drug commonly used to treat depression could help alleviate joint pain caused by a common breast cancer treatment.
The study showed that Cymbalta helped woman suffering joint pain associated with taking aromatase inhibitors, a drug that blocks the production of estrogen....
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December 13, 2010 10:59 AM
A study presented at the San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium and published online in the Journal of the American Medical Association shows weight lifting may not increase the risk of arm swelling caused by lymphedema, a build up of fluid, sometimes a side effect of removing lymph nodes.
Another...
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December 13, 2010 10:08 AM
Rodeo athletes arguably rank at the top of the toughness list. Riders risk broken bones, goring and even death when they step into the arena each night. Some riders recently proved they weren't too tough to wear pink during the Wrangler National Finals Rodeo in a Los Vegas last Wednesday....
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December 10, 2010 10:58 AM
The death of Elizabeth Edwards has once again focused attention on the risk of breast cancer for women.
Edwards admitted she sometimes skipped mammograms.
Apparently she was not alone.
New research shows millions of women skip the annual test every year.
Nearly 70 percent of women...
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