Kudos to Rethink Breast Cancer, a group in Canada focused on young people affected by breast cancer. They hold an annual film festival dedicated to not only breast cancer awareness but to the underlying issues connected with the disease. The festival uses films, panels, workshops and speakers to “connect people to the breast cancer cause, [...]
This debate reminds me of the emotional debate over when life begins. If abnormal cells have the potential to become cancer, do we call it cancer, and more importantly, do we treat it like cancer? When considering breast cancer, one step along the pathway can be abnormal cells confined to the breast ducts, or Ductal [...]
Once again, the dramatic claims reported recently in the news regarding breast cancer gave only a snippet of the real story. This time, news reports announced the discovery of Human Papilloma Virus in human breast cancer tissue. This report garnered quite a bit of attention. Not only because finding a virus with a role in [...]
Study results presented today at a European Cancer Organization conference in Berlin may give physicians a reason to rethink the standard of care for Stage IV or metastatic breast cancer. Treatment for women who are diagnosed from the beginning with a Stage IV breast cancer, or one that has spread to other parts of the [...]
We’ve all gotten used to seeing television ads for drugs. But a television ad for an investigational new drug and a clinical trial? That’s new. The commercial has been showing up during Good Morning America this week in several markets. Watch the ad here. Celsion Corporation is running the ad to promote their DIGNITY Breast [...]
The reason I’m so passionate about finding reliable, scientifically-based ways to prevent breast cancer, is the bright-eyed, ten-year-old girl that lives down the hallway. If there is anything my daughter can do now to prevent the hell of breast cancer from visiting – and no, breast cancer is not pink, pretty, OR inspirational!- I want [...]
This is a surprise to many people. Screening and early detection of breast cancer has been emphasized and elevated to such a level in our country that most women feel that screening and early detection IS the cure for breast cancer. Unfortunately, it’s just not true. Biology is just as important as the size and [...]
How do you prove that lifestyle factors can prevent breast cancer or breast cancer recurrence? The best evidence would come from interventional studies, studies comparing groups that make lifestyle changes with those that don’t. Unfortunately, we just don’t have many of those studies. What we do have, are a lot of studies looking at associations. [...]
Three hundred thousand more women will die of breast cancer each year in the US if proposed health care reform takes place, according to a multi-million dollar television ad campaign running in several states this week. The ads, sponsored by the Independent Women’s Forum, cite as evidence a report from Lancet Oncology that shows [...]
Everybody wants to believe they can control whether they get breast cancer or not. Of course we want control over this disease. It’s pretty scary to think it can happen to anyone. It follows doesn’t it, that we will support the organizations that tell us what we want to hear. The ones who give us [...]
