• Following DCIS Diagnosis, Psychosicail Interventions Recommended
• Racial Disparities Persist In Diagnosis Of Advanced Breast, Colon Cancer
• Possible New Approach To Treating Breast And Prostate Cancers
• Lower Overall Dosage Of Radiotherapy In Fewer Larger Doses As Safe For Breast Cancer Patients
• Few Women Take Tamoxifen To Prevent Breast Cancer
• Radiotherapy For Breast Cancer: A Lower Overall Dose Given In Fewer, Larger Doses Can Result In Better Quality Of Life
• Should Human Genes Be Patented? US Federal Court Hearing
• Older Female Cancer Survivors Have Added Health Issues Compared To Their Counterparts
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• Bill's goal is coverage of breast cancer tests - Baltimore Sun
• Paxil Blocks Tamoxifen, Lowers Survival Odds Against Breast Cancer - BusinessWeek
• Financial Woes Add Anxiety to Breast Cancer Diagnosis - BusinessWeek
• Breast cancer fight heats up with bake sale, hearing - San Francisco Chronicle (blog)
• Lady Panthers “Think Pink” and Raise Awareness for Breast Cancer - PVAMU Athletics
• Insurer Plays Judge on Cancer Care - Wall Street Journal
• Paying for breast cancer treatment - Toronto Sun
• ChromoCure's Technology and Theoretical Approach to Cancer Further Affirmed by ... - CNNMoney.com (press release)
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• Does the internet depress you?
• Meat Free Monday
• The importance of social media to non-profits
• Guest Blog Post: Healing Grief
• Poetry Friday
• World Cancer Day
• Minimally invasive approach may help curtail spread of cancer
• Take a deep breath…
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• Making up for Things Breast Cancer has Stolen
• Taking a New Medication to Reduce Breast Cancer Risk
• What Did You Learn from Breast Cancer?
• Buying Shoes to Get Through Chemo
• Cancer Patients Need Treatment but That Doesn’t Mean We Trust it
• Committing to Better Health
• Discovering Who You Really Are After Cancer
• The Ongoing Battle with Breast Cancer
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• Paxil Blocks Tamoxifen, Lowers Survival Odds Against Breast Cancer (HealthDay via Yahoo! News)
• Financial Woes Add Anxiety to Breast Cancer Diagnosis (HealthDay via Yahoo! News)
• Breast cancer link to other cancers. (CBS 6 Richmond)
• Few Women Take Tamoxifen To Prevent Breast Cancer (redOrbit)
• Older Women Mysteriously Not Taking Tamoxifen to Prevent Breast Cancer (Senior Journal)
• Panelists discuss approaches to breast cancer during Hot Pink Luncheon and Symposium (Palm Beach Daily News)
• Few Women Take Tamoxifen To Prevent Breast Cancer (Medical News Today)
• Radiotherapy For Breast Cancer: A Lower Overall Dose Given In Fewer, Larger Doses Can Result In Better Quality Of Life (Medical News Today)
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• Fewer, Larger Radiotherapy Doses May Aid Cancer Patients
• Few Women Take Tamoxifen Preventatively
• Elderly Women Get Unneeded Mammograms: Study
• FDA Expands Use of Tykerb
• Most Cancer Patients Experience Severe Flares of Pain: Study
• Therapy Can Cut Risk of Lymphedema
• Gene Test May Predict Cancer Recurrence Risk
• Facebook Meme Aims to Raise Cancer Awareness
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• Few women take tamoxifen to prevent breast cancer
• Prolactin blocks oncogene associated with poor prognosis in breast cancer
• Change in mammography guidelines questioned
• Discovery of epigenetic memory during breast cancer
• Digital mammography delivers significantly less radiation than conventional mammography
• Genes found linked to breast cancer drug resistance could guide future treatment choices
• Nlp: all new tumor-forming protein
• Lung cancer patients who quit smoking double their survival chances
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• Can you REALLY hang on to your hair during chemotherapy?
• How to keep your hair on despite the chemotherapy
• If you’ve got to have chemotherapy, did you know you could have it at home?
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• What Was I Saying?
• Adventures with Arimidex
• Life After Cancer – Or So You Would Think
• The Women
• Crafty Solutions to Chemo Hair Loss
• I'm Still Here!
• Dancing a Jig!!
• Almost there...
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• Acupuncture Reduces Hot Flashes, Increases Sex Drive
• Watchful Waiting Instead of Biopsy?
• The Time of the Month for a Breast MRI
• Genetic Testing: More than a Blood Test
• Breast Density Linked With Increased Breast-Cancer Risk
• Returning to Work After Treatment
• Treatment When You Want a Baby Someday
• Turning 40 This Year? It's Time for Your First Screening Mammogram!
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• Answer: Antidepressants? Wouldn't Be Here Without Them
• Quick Takes: Debbie Thomas
• Reading is Believing
• Cancer Heroes: Our Oncologists
• Cancer Heroes: Our Oncologists
• January: Thrills & Chills
• Much Needed Cancer Dialog Launched from Voices of Survivors Foundation
• Understand, then Advocate
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• Lapatinib Approved for Initial Treatment of Metastatic Breast Cancer
• Soy Foods May Benefit Breast Cancer Patients
• Exercise and Green Tea May Help Breast Cancer Survivors Beat the Blues
• Oncotype DX® Influences Breast Cancer Treatment Decisions
• Acupuncture Reduces Hot Flashes in Breast Cancer Patients …full story

• Choosing Gratitude
• 3 Year Cancerversary
• Thankful
• Post-Treatment Stress Disorder: Healing and Dealing
• Sick and Tired of Feeling Sick and Tired
• Twisters
• Cancer is a Full-Time Job
• Twitter Breaks the Silence
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• Are liberals seceding from sanity? I once did
• Arimidex Bites the Dust as a Brain Fog Excuse
• Bonds Build Lives - the Joy of Days
• Lost to Heaven: Another Mother with Cancer
• Why twitter?
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• On a Personal note,…
• ****URGENT UPDATE**** Racingforthecure.ca / HIGHRIDERS CHALLENGE
• HighRiders 2009 T-Minus 1 week!
• New Partners for racingforthecure.ca and the HighRiders Challenge!
• ***SOLD OUT***
• BLASPHEMY and racingforthecure.ca on the net!
• Brave the Shave! HighRiders Challenge 2009!
• Local truck to start fundraising
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• A whole page of resources devoted to reducing cancer risk with exercise and activity. …full story

• PACE (Prevention Against Cancer through Exercise) is a six-month pilot exercise intervention study for women at increased breast cancer risk. Studies have found that regular exercise and having a healthy weight are associated with a decreased risk of getting breast cancer for both pre-menopausal and post-menopausal women. …full story

• BreastCancerStories.org is a very special website where Breast Cancer Patients and Care Givers can write about their experiences, share their progress with loved ones, and read stories and connect with other Patients and Care Givers who are going through a similar experience. …full story

• Hello. I just had a bilateral mastectomy, diep method used three weeks ago. My doctors were fantastic and took all the fear away. I happen to work in HR at the hospital this procedure was done, and I handle the benefits so I have access to insurance information and contacts. My plastic surgeon is the only one in New England that does the diep procedure and he participates with insurance. What he did was magnificent...my breasts are so natural, the core of my stomach was left in tack (a nice tummy tuck was included) and though the surgery took 17 hours (his part 14) it was well worth it in the end. To be inconvenienced by B/C is one thing.To be happy with the results after is how it should be. But, insurance only allowed $3800 of the $31000. bill.This procedure cost him a full day at work and to be compensated so little doesn't seem worth it. Do you see insurance interfering in the choices women will make in reconstruction? Regards, Pat Lago …full story

• Many women of today’s biggest fear is breast cancer. With staggering statistics of over a million women each year being diagnosed each year, it is not hard to understand why there is this shadow of worry. Improvements in technology have allowed the scientific and medical world to more accurately screen and detect the condition, but unfortunately we are nowhere closer to defining an exact cause or even know what can be done to prevent it. Is it hereditary? Surprisingly enough only a an extremely low amount can be linked to genealogy. It also seems that the scientific community is less motivated to on the age old saying of "prevention is better than cure," with the majority of funds being emptied into more lucrative market of treatment, rather than the research dedicated to finding and eliminating the cause of the cancer. …full story

• "We have survival rates we didn't have in 1965. When my mother had breast cancer, it was a death sentence," Moore said. Survivorship rates are up for all forms of cancer. People with cancer had a 50 percent chance of surviving for five years in the 1970s. Now, that rate is up to 66 percent, according to information culled from 1996 to 2003. But cancer is still the second most common cause of death in the United States — only heart disease exceeds it. …full story

• KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — The widow of an H&R Block founder donated $20 million Tuesday to the University of Kansas Hospital's cancer program, where she was successfully treated for breast cancer this year. "I feel so lucky and so blessed that I can do this," Annette Bloch told hospital employees as she announced the gift. "I know that if my husband were alive, he would be just thrilled that I am." Bloch said she was trying to pay a debt she and her husband owed to those who helped them overcome cancer. The new donation is believed to be the largest individual gift to a hospital in Kansas or the Kansas City area. …full story

• When I was first diagnosed with breast cancer, I was quite open about it – but this turned out to be a mistake. By far the hardest part of handling my condition has been people’s responses to my news. Some people simply didn’t know what to say, so avoided me the minute I turned up. Meanwhile others went to pieces, leaving me to handle their distress as well as my own feelings. But the most common response was an intense interest in every minute medical detail. I had no idea that my privacy would be invaded in so many ways. People I barely knew felt it acceptable to interrupt whatever I was doing at the time in order to hug me and tell me about their auntie “who has just the same as you and she’s still alive” or offer to “come and see me”. …full story

• INDIAN WELLS — Sherry Kovas, a cashier at Ralphs Grocery Co.'s store in Indian Wells, has brought new meaning to the definition of Kellogg's Special K bars. The two-year breast cancer survivor was chosen to share her experience on the protein bars' packaging for the “Giving Hope a Hand'' promotion. Ralphs Grocery Co., in partnership with key suppliers such as Kellogg's, Kraft, Pepsi, Campbell's, General Mills, Procter & Gamble and Dreyer's Ice Cream, committed $240,000 in donations for breast cancer initiatives across Southern California. …full story

• In 2007, Christina landed the starring role on "Samantha Who?" an acclaimed comedy series. After receiving Emmy and Golden Globe nominations for her performance, it seemed that nothing could stop Christina's triumphant return to TV. Then, in April 2008, shocking news silenced the laughter. At 36 years old, Christina was diagnosed with breast cancer. At first, Christina says she lived quietly with the disease. "It's hard to live quietly," she says. "I went through five weeks of work without telling anyone that this was going on in my life." …full story

• DETROIT (WBZ) ¯ Hot flashes, nausea, and fatigue are just some of the debilitating side effects associated with breast cancer treatments. Now a new study shows that acupuncture can ease these symptoms in some women. Doctors at the Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit conducted a study comparing acupuncture to drug therapy for the treatment of these side effects. …full story

• The study may entirely change the way doctors treat early-stage breast cancer in America. It shows three weeks of intense radiation therapy is as effective as the usual 5- to 6-week course. "No question, typically women will go in almost every day for 5 to 6 weeks for radiation," CBS4 Medical Editor Dr. Dave Hnida said. "Now it looks like we take that time and safely cut it to 3 weeks, and 'safely' is the key word." The major new study followed more than 1,000 women for more than 12 years. They found in those treated with 3 weeks of intense radiation after a lumpectomy, the rate of recurrence was low, as with longer therapy. …full story