Cancer, Cancer Treatment

A crowd of 38,000 turned out yesterday on Boston’s Esplanade and raised $3.3 million in the 16th annual Making Strides Against Breast Cancer Walk, organizers from the American Cancer Society said.

The 5-mile walk is the nation’s oldest and largest one-day walk against the disease, officials said. Boston was the first city to host the walk, which has spread to more than 130 communities nationwide, including about 20 New England cities and towns. Boston’s walk has raised more than $39 million for research, education, and patient advocacy and support in the last 16 years.

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A group of Dutch researchers have reported that about one fourth of the biological drugs that had hit the United States and Europe markets since 1995 had given rise to concerns about their safety just a few years after they had been approved.

Derived from living cells (and not from various chemicals like the typical drugs are), the biological meds have prompted safety warnings with regards to immune system disorders, infusion reactions, infections and cancer risk.

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Coffee isn?t harmful to your health, a new study confirms that theory. Is it true that long term, regular coffee consumption may speed the progression of aggressive forms of breast cancer? The findings of a new study published in the Oct. Issue of the Archives of Internal Medicine suggest caffeine ?does not appear to be associated with overall risk of breast cancer.?

For the study, funded by the National Institutes of Health, study co-author Dr. Shumin M. Zhang, from the division of preventive medicine, in the department of medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston and colleagues from Tokyo Women?s Medical University in Japan examined the diets of a pool of almost 39,000 women over the age of 45 over a period of ten years. The participants were asked to provide details of their diet, including their coffee habits. 1,188 of the 38,432 study participants developed invasive breast cancer over 10 years of follow-up.

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Breast cancer research for cure, cause and prevention is an on-going struggle for scientists, for the benefit of humanity. Recent Dutch studies and analyses have shown that a young woman who receives radiation for cancer in one breast might develop cancer in the other breast, because of the same radiation. The risk of a woman developing breast cancer in her unaffected breast increases dramatically if said woman has a history of breast cancer in her family.

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Wednesday October 29, 2008 (foodconsumer.org) — A new Korean study published on Oct 9 in Archives of Toxicology suggests that ingestion of bisphenol A or BPA may not increase risk of breast cancer.

The study led by Yang M at Sookmyung Women’s University in Seoul, Republic of Korea found there was no significant difference in blood BPA levels between the breast cancer patients and women without the disease.

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- A huge study funded by the National Institutes of Health triples the number of genes linked to lung cancer and points toward new treatments.

The study analyzed DNA sequences from 623 genes in tumor samples from 188 patients with lung adenocarcinoma, the most common form of lung cancer.

The study turned up 26 genes mutated at high frequency in lung cancer tumors. Previously, 10 gene mutations had been linked to lung cancer — and only five of them were known to be mutated at high frequency.

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Wednesday October 29, 2008 (foodconsumer.org) — A new Korean study published on Oct 9 in Archives of Toxicology suggests that ingestion of bisphenol A or BPA may not increase risk of breast cancer.

The study led by Yang M at Sookmyung Women’s University in Seoul, Republic of Korea found there was no significant difference in blood BPA levels between the breast cancer patients and women without the disease.

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