A breast cancer drug that could have benefited thousands of sufferers has been turned down by the Government’s drug rationing body. Read more...

Mammography is less accurate at spotting breast cancer if a woman has had the disease before, according to a U.S. government-funded study. Read more...

Integrative Oncology Basics: download the *NEW 2011* free guide on integrative oncology cancer care and prevention · Typical U.S. diet (high fat and cholesterol) increases breast cancer development and progression by 50% (in mice)! … Read more...

A quarter of all women who suffer from breast cancer are at risk of metastasis – a recurrence of the cancer. In recent years, researchers at Lund University, Sweden, have developed a technique that can identify in advance which patients belong to this risk group. Within the next two years the method will be tested in Swedish hospitals. Read more...

Mammograms are more likely to miss new tumors in women who have had breast cancer before than in those without a history, a study published today found. Read more...

Cancer experts have identified a gene which can cause a particularly aggressive form of breast cancer to develop. ZNF703 is the first “oncogene” to be discovered in five years. It is overactive in around one in 12 breast cancers, and could account for up to 4,000 UK cases a year. Read more...

… has been linked to breast cancer progression , but the molecular details of that connection were unknown,” said senior author Mien-Chie Hung, Ph.D., professor and chair of MD Anderson’s Department of Molecular and Cellular Oncology Read more...

A few nice Breast Cancer images I found: Read more...

by Barnaby Jeans

Question by Adun: How come breast cancer gets so much attention when others don’t?
I’m not saying breast cancer is not a horrible ailment but there are worse cancer’s and worse diseases but it seems to get more attention then others. One of the most common diseases no one does events for “asthma” for example and yes people do die from it. I’m saying we shouldn’t have events for breast cancer I’m just wondering why it gets so much attention when others do not. Read more...

Check out these Breast Cancer images: Read more...