|
John Fielding,
CEO
|
The Breast Cancer Risk Assessment Tool is a computer program that women and their health care providers can use to estimate a woman’s chances of developing breast cancer based on several recognized risk factors.
|
|
Albert Graham,
Backyard Pool Drainer
|
Not all breast cancers can be detected, even with mammograms, but radiologists know that with mammography more women will have their breast cancer diagnosed earlier, which improves a patient's chance of cure, often with a more conservative surgical treatment.
Women at young ages and those with a strong family history of breast related cancers are more likely to carry predisposing mutations in breast cancer susceptibility genes than are other women with the disease.
Women who are taking tamoxifen as treatment for breast cancer should be assured of the benefits of the drug in reducing the risk of breast cancer recurrence and in reducing the risk of new breast cancers.
|
|
Zhang Xian Qian,
Ex-Olympic Swimmer
|
Breast cancer cells that are ER+ need the hormone estrogen to grow and will usually respond to hormone (antiestrogen) therapy that blocks these receptor sites.
Human breast cancer: androgen action mediated by estrogen receptor.
|
|
Arthur Dawkins,
Astro-physicist
|
This project is to develop the approach for chromosome rearrangements in common cancers such as breast and ovarian cancer, and also explore their application to interspecies variation of the genome.
Breast Cancer SPOREs are testing the use of imaging and gene array assessments to find markers that predict long-term response to chemotherapy before breast cancer surgery.
Joseph's Breast Imaging Center, we will be able to confidently identify abnormalities or signs of disease on a regular basis during our mammogram screening analyses and significantly increase our detection rate of invasive cancers.
|
|
David Rosenberg,
Dermatologist
|
A clinical trial from France demonstrated that in early Breast Cancers with no palpable lymph nodes in the axilla there was no difference in long term survival between those patients who had axillary dissection and those patients who had only axillary radiation.
Breast cancer is the second most common cancer among women (after skin cancers) and accounts for nearly one in three cancers diagnosed in American women.
Other cancers, such as lung and breast cancers and melanoma, can spread to the abdomen and cause bowel obstruction.
|
|
|
