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Gene Patenting: Are We Missing the Point?

May 22, 2013 | intellectualassetmanagement.com.au

The issue of ‘gene patents’ has been a hot topic of late, and has recently resurfaced in the news as a result of Angelina Jolie having a double mastectomy. However, having been a scientific researcher working on technologies... Read more...

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Abu Dhabi 'cancer wave' initiative saves lives

May 22, 2013 | thenational.ae

ABU DHABI // A cancer awareness programme highlighting for the first time three forms of the disease in one initiative has saved lives in the emirate. That's the view of Dr Lamia Safieldeen, senior officer in cancer control and... Read more...

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Fertility Preservation Network Sponsors Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure Teams

May 20, 2013 | prlog.org

ReproTech, Ltd., a cryobank specializing in long-term storage of human reproductive tissue (sperm, eggs, embryos and ovarian/testicular tissue), was a sponsor in recent Race for the Cure fundraisers to benefit the Susan G.... Read more...

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'We do not see the lens through which we look': screening mammography evidence and non-financial...

May 21, 2013 | intute.ac.uk

It has become clear that conflicts of interest can influence scientific judgement and reporting of research results in the medical literature. 1 In this issue of EBM , Rasmussen et al 2 studied citation of systematic reviews of... Read more...

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Mum's 9-week cancer appointment wait

May 21, 2013 | stuff.co.nz

A second Southland woman with breast cancer fears says her long wait to see a specialist has stretched to nine weeks - and her appointment was made only after she asked her GP's receptionist to remind the hospital of her referral. Read more...

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BioMarin Announces BMN-673 Data in Breast and Ovarian Cancers to Be Released at ASCO

May 21, 2013 | checkorphan.org

BioMarin Pharmaceutical Inc. announced that data from its ongoing Phase 1/2 trial for BMN-673 for genetically-defined cancers will be released at the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) meeting in Chicago on June 3,... Read more...

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Best Electrical Company Offering Home Safety Inspections During National Electrical Safety Month

May 20, 2013 | prlog.org

Fees will be donated directly to the Orange County Affiliate of the Susan G. Komen Foundation PRLog (Press Release) - May 20, 2013 - ORANGE COUNTY, Calif. -- 5/15/13 Orange County, CA- In honor of National Electrical Safety... Read more...

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Tokyo hospital ready to conduct preventive mastectomies

May 21, 2013 | intellasia.net

Intellasia East Asia News A hospital in Tokyo said Monday that it stands ready to conduct preventive mastectomies and that several women have undergone the operation there in the past after developing cancer in one breast. St.... Read more...

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Study Reveals Troubling News About Cancer Treatments In California

May 21, 2013 | hyperculture.net

Tracy has agricultural roots and affordable homes, but a new study reveals a less obvious distinction for this Central Valley city: Doctors use internal radiation to treat men for prostate cancer at the highest rate in... Read more...
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Three Memorial-Sloan Kettering Researchers Receive Special Awards by the American Society of...

May 21, 2013 | mskcc.org

Add a Comment By Eva Kiesler, PhD, Science Writer/Editor | Wednesday, May 22, 2013 Charles Sawyers , Larry Norton , and Kenneth Offit are being honored with special awards at the annual meeting of the world’s leading... Read more...

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Generex Announces ASCO Presentations on the Antigen Express Advanced Stage AE37 Cancer Vaccine

May 22, 2013 | bio-medicine.org

WORCESTER, Mass. and TORONTO , May 22, 2013 /- Generex Biotechnology Corporation ( www.generex.com ) (OTCBB: GNBT) today announced three presentations demonstrating the superiority of the AE37 breast cancer vaccine being... Read more...

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Sheehy Auto Stores' Sheehy 5000 Campaign To Bring Total Donations In 16 Years To and#36;1 Million...

May 21, 2013 | sectorpublishingintelligence.co.uk

World News: 22:38 GMT Tuesday 21st May 2013. [Susan G. Komen Foundation via PR Newswire] Sheehy Auto Stores' Sheehy 5000 Campaign To Bring Total Donations In 16 Years To $1 Million For Race For The Cure Dealership-wide Events &... Read more...

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Compound in Mediterranean Diet Helps in Killing Cancer Cells: Study

May 22, 2013 | ibtimes.com

A compound in Mediterranean diet could stop breast cancer cells from inhibiting their own death, according to a new study. Researchers from Ohio State University in the United States have suggested that a compound called... Read more...
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Lorry driver takes to the streets on foot

May 21, 2013 | pontefractandcastlefordexpress.co.uk

A lorry driver from Feathestone will take to the streets of Edinburgh on foot this weekend to raise money for charity. Darren Hanley, of Pontefract Road, will run the Edinburgh Marathon after his sister-in-law Karen Hill was... Read more...

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Music-based exercise class cuts seniors’ fall risk

May 20, 2013 | prafulla.net

Exercises that combine music and rhythmic movement may help curb the rate of falls among older adults at increased risk, a study published Monday suggests. Swiss researchers found that a form of music/movement education known... Read more...

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Thought-Leader Opinion and Clinical Data Indicate that Emerging Agents from Two Drug Classes Have...

May 21, 2013 | bio-medicine.org

BURLINGTON, Mass. , May 21, 2013 /- Decision Resources, one of the world's leading research and advisory firms for pharmaceutical and healthcare issues, finds that the effect of an emerging agent on key efficacy endpoints,... Read more...

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Italian study on STORM emphasizes clinical benefit for breast cancer screening ... Alerts -...

May 20, 2013 | hedgehogs.net

Hologic, Inc. published the final results of a prospective large-scale study comparing cancer screening breast realized using mammography 2D associated tomosynthesis Hologic (breast Tomosynthesis) and mammography conventional... Read more...

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Izac completes 26.2 mile ‘Moon Walk’ for charity

May 21, 2013 | burtonmail.co.uk

A BURTON teen fashioned a pink furry bra and fake pink eyelashes before he joined thousands of others on a marathon ‘Moon Walk’ in aid of breast cancer charities. Fourteen-year-old Izac Lloyd-Jones, a pupil at The de Ferrers... Read more...

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Breast cancer: your (poor) SA options

May 21, 2013 | iol.co.za

In South Africa it can take between six and nine months for a breast cancer patient to get diagnosed. ||| Johannesburg - Actress Angelina Jolie has announced that she has a gene that made her more susceptible to cancer, so... Read more...

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DR Technology Better for Screening of Breast Cancer than CR Technology

May 20, 2013 | topnews.net.nz

As per a new study done by Cancer Care Ontario (CCO), for detecting breast cancer, the methods of digital direct radiography (DR) and screen film are more efficient than the method of digital computed radiography (CR). The... Read more...

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ASCP Members Rally Around Breast and Ovarian Cancer Awareness

May 20, 2013 | bio-medicine.org

Chicago (PRWEB) May 20, 2013 The American Society for Clinical Pathology (ASCP) set out to raise $5,000 for Bright Pink®, the organization that empowers young women to be proactive with their breast and ovarian health, by the... Read more...

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Men Struggle with Wives' Breast Cancer

May 18, 2013 | fmnewschicago.com

Photodisc/Thinkstock (NEW YORK) -- Seventy two hours after Elissa Bantug's mastectomy, she felt broken. She was only 25 years old, but she had lost both breasts and her strawberry blonde hair to cancer. Drainage tubes still... Read more...

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Breast Care International Prepares For 2013 Ghana Walk For The Cure.

May 18, 2013 | spyghana.com

Breast Care International and other stakeholders have held the maiden Local Organising Committee (LOC) meeting in Accra as preparations get underway for the 2013 BCI Ghana Walk for the Cure campaign to create awareness on... Read more...

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Statin Users May Have a Reason to Rejoice After This Data

May 19, 2013 | avidinvestorgroup.com

Whether or not you’ve been keeping tabs, the American Society of Clinical Oncology’s annual meeting is less than two weeks away. ASCO, as it’s more commonly known, is arguably the single-most important event in the... Read more...

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My Left Breast: Chapter 2

May 20, 2013 | huffingtonpost.com

Writer Babette Hughes shared her experience with breast cancer in a powerful blog post recently. Here is a follow up to that must-read blog. Back home after the diagnosis, I make dinner, noting that the salmon smells fishy. I... Read more...

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When Hot Flashes Meet Summer Heat: Tips To Help Keep You Cool

May 19, 2013 | sandiegonewscape.com

San Diego, California (NAPSI) - If you’re among the nearly 75 percent of menopausal women who suffer from hot flashes, 1 it can be tough to enjoy the sunny weather worrying about a sudden hot flash in summertime. And since hot... Read more...

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Jolie's health woes produce echoes on a personal level

May 19, 2013 | rep-am.com

Two months before Angelina Jolie's revelation she had a preventative double mastectomy to lower her risk of breast cancer, my sister-in-law underwent the same procedure. Unlike Jolie, whose mother died of ovarian cancer at 56,... Read more...
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Less education and lower incomes keep cancer rates high among African Americans

May 19, 2013 | medcitynews.com

To understand both the simplicity of disparities in health care and the complexity of eliminating them, consider this: In the late 1970s and early '80s, black and white death rates for breast and colorectal cancer, two of the... Read more...

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Biomarker Analysis Identifies Women Most Likely to Benefit From Kadcyla

May 19, 2013 | cancerconnect.com

Among women with metastatic, HER2-positive breast cancer, those with the highest tumor HER2 levels benefit the most from the drug Kadcyla™ (ado-trastuzumab emtansine, formerly known as T-DM1), according to the results of a... Read more...

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Breast cancer resistance protein (Bcrp) and the testis—an unexpected turn of events

May 20, 2013 | nature.com

1The Mary M. Wohlford Laboratory for Male Contraceptive Research, Center for Biomedical Research, Population Council, New York, NY 10065, USA 2Department of Anatomy, Histology and Embryology, School of Basic Medicine, Peking... Read more...

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