| TORONTO (Canadian Press) -- Women prescribed tamoxifen to prevent a recurrence of breast cancer should avoid taking the antidepressant Paxil and its generic equivalents because of a potentially dangerous drug interaction, a study suggests.
LONDON (AP) -- You know an election is coming when British politicians suddenly promise sweeping improvements to the National Health Service, a simultaneous source of national pride and worry.
SAN ANTONIO (The New York Times News Service) -- Cancer drugs and radiation target and kill fast-growing cancer cells. But a small number of noncancer cells in the tumor often survive. These, researchers believe, are "mother" cells -- stem cells that shrug off treatment and survive to manufacture more cancer cells.
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) -- As the economy falters and more people go without health insurance, low-income women in at least 20 states are being turned away or put on long waiting lists for free cancer screenings, according to the American Cancer Society's Cancer Action Network.
SAN ANTONIO (AP) -- New results from a landmark women's health study raise the exciting possibility that bone-building drugs such as Fosamax and Actonel may help prevent breast cancer.
SAN ANTONIO (AP) -- Women with very advanced breast cancer may have a new treatment option. A combination of two drugs that more precisely target tumors significantly extended the lives of women who had stopped responding to other treatments, doctors reported Friday.
(USA TODAY) -- Soy foods may be safe, and possibly even beneficial, for breast cancer survivors, a new study says.
SAN FRANCISCO (The New York Times News Service) -- When Rob Fechtner of Napa woke up one morning in 2006 to a sore spot on his chest and a strange indentation in his nipple, his first thought was that he'd pulled a muscle. Even his doctor told him it was probably nothing to worry about.
(USA TODAY) -- Women across the USA have been shocked and angered by new advice to get fewer mammograms. Yet experts have been debating the risks of mammograms and other cancer screenings for more than a decade.
HOUSTON (The New York Times News Service) -- From his outsider's vantage point, computer scientist Stephen Wong sees a big problem with drug discovery. It's too costly and too slow.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Lawmakers broke along party lines on a new aspect of the health care debate Sunday as a former National Institutes of Health chief urged women to ignore guidelines that delay the start of breast cancer screenings.
(Associated Press) -- Several doctors groups and advocacy groups set guidelines for cancer screening, and they update that advice periodically as new information emerges. Sometimes they agree, sometimes they don't. Last year, a number of groups got together and issued consensus guidelines for colon cancer.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A member of the panel whose new mammogram recommendations have led to confusion is defending the task force's report.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Federal policy on who should get breast cancer screening has not changed, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said Wednesday.
SPRING LAKE, N.J. (AP) -- Lying in bed one night in 2007, Peter Criss felt something strange: a small lump on his left breast.
NEW YORK (AP) -- Most women don't need a mammogram in their 40s and should get one every two years starting at 50, a government task force said Monday. It's a major reversal that conflicts with the American Cancer Society's long-standing position.
NEW YORK (AP) -- For many women, getting a mammogram is already one of life's more stressful experiences.
(USA TODAY) -- Nearly half of breast cancer survivors suffer from persistent pain, even two to three years after surgery, a study shows.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Nurses were training women in rural Mexico to examine their breasts for cancer when one raised her hand to object. If she lost her breast, Harvard public health specialist Felicia Knaul recalls the woman saying, "My man would leave me" - and with him, the family's income.
(The Atlanta Journal-Constitution) -- Pink is the new green.
(The New York Times News Service) -- Power of pink
TAMPA (The New York Times News Service) -- When Geri Bell lost her breasts to cancer, she joked that at least she wouldn't need a bra. When she lost her hair to chemotherapy, she'd say how her wig made it so easy to get ready in the morning.
MONROE, Ohio (AP) -- A husband and wife are both undergoing treatment for breast cancer in a case that illustrates how the disease can strike both sexes. Mike and Barbara Welsh, of Monroe, in southwestern Ohio, each had surgery this year after separate discoveries that they had breast cancer.
(USA TODAY) -- When a mammogram detected a lump in Barbara Laufer's breast, the fear was paralyzing.
SEATTLE (AP) -- Women in Nicaragua may soon get mammograms while they bank, thanks to the work of two Seattle nonprofit groups.
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Dr. Christine Daniel promised to her patients what many considered the improbable -- the chance to cure cancer through an herbal treatment.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Estrogen fuels breast cancer yet doctors can't measure how much of the hormone is in a woman's breast without cutting into it. A Canadian invention might change that: A lab-on-a-chip that can do the work quickly with just the poke of a small needle.
WASHINGTON (AP) - Some doctors tell patients they have "stage zero" breast cancer. Others call it a precancer.
LONDON (AP) -- Being fat could become the leading cause of cancer in women in Western countries in the coming years, European researchers said Thursday.
(McClatchy-Tribune Information Services) -- Mary Foust knew something was wrong eight years ago.
ATLANTA (AP) -- Four years after the government severely restricted its use, the lung cancer drug Iressa may be poised to make a comeback: A study concludes it can slow the deadly disease better than standard chemotherapy in certain patients.
(USA TODAY) -- Asking nurses to reach out to people who have advanced cancer -- even if only by phone -- can improve patients' mood and quality of life, a study in today's Journal of the American Medical Association reports.
(Associated Press) -- Breast cancer survivors have been getting bum advice. For decades, many doctors warned that lifting weights or even heavy groceries could cause painful arm swelling. New research shows that weight training actually helps prevent this problem.
(Associated Press) -- Breast cancer patients with even the tiniest spread of the disease to a lymph node have a much higher risk of it recurring years later and may need more treatment than just surgery, new research suggests.
(McClatchy-Tribune Information Services) -- Nursing their infants appears to protect women with a family history of breast cancer from developing the disease, according to a report in the Archives of Internal Medicine.
(NewsRx.com) -- Previous studies have found that postmenopausal women who have taken a combined estrogen and progestin hormone replacement therapy have increased their risk of developing progestin-accelerated breast tumors. Now, University of Missouri researchers have found that curcumin, a popular Indian spice derived from the turmeric root, could reduce the cancer risk for women after exposure to hormone replacement therapy (see also University of Missouri-Columbia).
TAMPA (The New York Times News Service) -- For the estimated 50,000 women a year who have one or both breasts removed through surgery, mastectomy usually means a disfiguring scar or reconstructive surgery to mask it.
LONDON (AP) -- One in three breast cancer patients identified in public screening programs may be treated unnecessarily, a new study says. Karsten Jorgensen and Peter Gotzsche of the Nordic Cochrane Centre in Copenhagen analyzed breast cancer trends at least seven years before and after government-run screening programs for breast cancer started in parts of Australia, Britain, Canada, Norway and Sweden.
(McClatchy-Tribune Information Services) -- Erica Harris thought her Prineville home would be finished this summer. Instead, the suburban home has no flooring. Rugs and furniture lie atop subfloor. There are no kitchen cabinets, and steps that will someday lead from one room to another are not there. Harris' appliances are being stored in her garage.
WASHINGTON (Deutsche Presse-Agentur) -- Dr. Jerri Nielsen Fitzgerald, who battled cancer in 1999 while stationed at the South Pole, died at home Tuesday in Southwick, Massachusetts, after a second bout with the disease, local media reported.
FARMINGDALE, N.Y. (McClatchy-Tribune Information Services)-- At the 1999 U.S. Open that provided the lasting image of Payne Stewart, runner-up Phil Mickelson also captured America's imagination. He played that week knowing his wife, Amy, was expecting their first child at any time. He kept telling everyone he was going to leave the moment he found out she'd gone into labor.
BALTIMORE (AP) -- At one of the nation's top trauma hospitals, a nurse circles a patient's bed, humming and waving her arms as if shooing evil spirits. Another woman rubs a quartz bowl with a wand, making tunes that mix with the beeping monitors and hissing respirator keeping the man alive.
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) -- With much of her lower body consumed by cancer, Leslee Flasch finally faced the truth: The herbal supplements and special diet were not working.
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) -- Adult survivors of childhood cancer who most need mammograms and other tests to watch for second cancers are less likely to follow screening recommendations than the general public or even their healthy siblings, a new study finds.
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) -- Breast cancer survivors risk having their disease come back if they use certain antidepressants while also taking the cancer prevention drug tamoxifen, worrisome new research shows.
(USA TODAY) -- Margo Adler-Libstag isn't cancer-free.
ATLANTA (AP) -- The U.S. cancer death rate fell again in 2006, a new analysis shows, continuing a slow downward trend that experts attribute to declines in smoking, earlier detection and better treatment.
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