Bitter Melon Extract Inhibits Breast Cancer Cell Growth

AACR.org – Bitter melon extract, a common dietary supplement, exerts a significant effect against breast cancer cell growth and may eventually become a chemopreventive agent against this form of cancer, according to results of a recent study. “Our...

ABC Staffer is 18th Diagnosed with Breast Cancer.

Another former Brisbane ABC staff member has been diagnosed with breast cancer.

Chemicals Suspected in Breast Cancer, US Experts Want Tests.

US experts called Friday for toxicity tests on chemicals they suspect play a role in the development of breast cancer, a leading cause of death in American women.

Poverty Link to Rogue Cancer Gene.

Experts say there is a genetic explanation for why women from poor backgrounds are less likely to beat breast cancer. Poor lifestyles may trigger a key gene mutation linked to worse prognosis, the British Journal of Cancer reports.

Breast Cancer Fears Grow Around Household Cleaners.

Doctors and environmental scientists are growing more concerned that chemicals found in many household cleaning supplies, such as floor cleaners and glass cleaners, are behind the ongoing increase in breast cancer cases in the U.S.

Poor Neighbourhoods Can Kill.

Across the US, death rates among black women diagnosed with breast cancer are 37 percent higher than for whites, but in Chicago the difference is an astonishing 68 percent. Something about this heaving metropolis is sending black women to an early grave.

Cancer Victims Welcome ABC’s New Brisbane Premises.

The ABC was forced to vacate the site beside the Brisbane River at Toowong in 2006 after 17 women who had worked at the ABC were diagnosed with breast cancer.

Shining a Night-light on Breast Cancer Hazard.

Obesity and high-fat diets have long been known to be risk factors for breast cancer. But recent research is pointing to an altogether different hazard: the artificial light that shift workers are routinely exposed to at night.

MRI Plus Mammography Detects Breast Cancer At Early Stage

AACR.org – Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) coupled with mammography detects almost all breast cancers at an early stage, thereby reducing the incidence of advanced stage breast cancer in high-risk women. “Earlier stage breast cancers are more...

Antibody-linked Drug T-DM1 Works Against Treatment-resistant HER2 Breast Cancer

A new antibody-drug compound T-DM1 shrank or halted the growth of metastatic breast tumors in almost half of a group of patients whose HER2-positive breast cancer had become resistant to standard therapies, according to early data from a multicenter Phase...