Following 35,000 women aged 50 to 76, Fred Hutchinson researchers found current fish oil use accompanying 32 percent lower breast cancer risk. The drop showed only for ductal tumours; black cohosh, dong quai, soy and St. John's wort showed no link.
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Obesity
Pink News: Alcohol Raises Breast Cancer Risk
Alcohol makers are attaching pink ribbons to vodka, liqueurs and pink wines during Breast Cancer Awareness Month, though the National Toxicology Program lists alcoholic drinks as carcinogens. A study of 1,897 women ties drinking to recurrence, especially in postmenopausal and obese patients.
Phytochemicals
Pink news: Soy protein cuts risk of breast cancer death
Among 5,042 Chinese breast cancer survivors followed about four years, women with the highest soy protein intake were 29 percent less likely to die and 32 percent less likely to suffer a recurrence than those eating the least, a JAMA study reports.
Cancer
Pink tips: How to prevent breast cancer
The writer walks through the American Cancer Society's breast cancer risk factors, separating unmodifiable ones such as gender, age and BRCA mutations from modifiable ones such as alcohol, obesity, inactivity and hormone use, and argues diet and lifestyle can still influence genetic risk.
Drug
Pink News: Mammogram Screening Works for Women Ages 40-49
A Swedish study in Cancer compared women aged 40 to 49 invited to mammography screening with those who were not, between 1986 and 2005, and found fewer breast cancer deaths among those screened. An editor's note calls screening in this age group a contested question among experts.
Vitamins
Pink News: Aggressive Breast Cancer Linked To Vitamin D Deficiency
Researchers led by Susan Steck followed 107 women diagnosed with breast cancer in the previous five years, 60 of them black, and found African-American women had lower vitamin D levels than white women. The study links deficiency to a higher risk of aggressive breast cancer.
Lifestyle
Avoiding obesity more effective in fighting breast cancer than wearing pink?
The writer argues that wearing pink raises awareness and encourages screening but does little to prevent breast cancer, which diet and lifestyle can influence. Cited work links low-fat diets, omega-3s and vitamin D to lower risk, and overweight to higher risk of contralateral breast cancer.
Vitamins
Vitamin D: More Effective in Fighting Breast Cancer than Wearing Pink?
Engel and colleagues compared serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D in 636 women with breast cancer and 1,272 without, matched on age, menopausal status and collection details. The piece stresses the work does not prove vitamin D deficiency causes the disease.
Food
Low dietary fat more effective in fighting breast cancer than wearing pink?
Comparing 1,703 breast cancer patients with 2,045 controls, Tufts researchers tied high total fat intake to 35 percent higher risk. Women who cooked with hydrogenated fats had 58 percent higher risk and those using vegetable or corn oil 30 percent higher, against olive or canola oil.
Cancer
Breast Cancer Awareness Month, Physical Activity, Depression, Healthcare Reform
A study in Cancer analysed 1,162,596 Danish men and found those whose wives or girlfriends were diagnosed with breast cancer were 309 percent more likely to be hospitalized for a mood disorder such as major depression, suggesting male partners need emotional and social support.
Drug
Mammograms not effective as thought - new study
A Norwegian study following 40,075 women from 1996 through 2005 attributes only about a 10 percent reduction in breast cancer deaths to screening, or 2.4 fewer deaths per 100,000 person-years. Danish work put the benefit lower still, and the findings ran in NEJM.
Drug
Breast cancer treatment causes sexual dysfunction
A survey of 1,700 breast cancer survivors found 70 percent of partnered women aged 70 or under with no active disease reported sexual function problems two years after diagnosis, though more than 80 percent described a satisfying sex life beforehand. Body image and endocrine therapy featured.
Drug
Nearly 30,000 Americans Get Cancer From This One Procedure EVERY Year: Will You?
CT scans give higher-resolution images than ordinary X-rays but expose patients to hundreds or thousands of times the radiation. US use rose from about 3 million scans in 1980 to over 70 million a year. An Archives of Internal Medicine study estimated they cause nearly 30,000 cancers a year.
Drug
Hormone therapy raises breast cancer risk - study
A study in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute ties falling hormone replacement therapy use to a drop in Canadian breast cancer incidence from 296 to about 278 cases per 100,000 women between 2002 and 2004. The study was observational, though the authors call the link likely causal.
Disease
More genetic variants affect breast cancer risk
A Mayo Clinic-led study identified five single nucleotide polymorphisms on chromosome 19p13 that modify breast cancer risk in BRCA1 mutation carriers. The same variants were tied to estrogen-receptor-negative and triple-negative breast cancer in women without BRCA1 mutations.
Cancer
Research Sheds Light on Aggressive Breast Cancers
Breakthrough Breast Cancer researchers deleted BRCA1 from both basal and luminal cells in mice. Tumors arose in both, but only those from luminal cells carried the traits of human BRCA1 cancers, contrary to the assumption that such tumors start in basal cells.
Disease
Breast Cancer Awareness
A question-and-answer page on breast cancer: it ranks fifth among causes of death for women, behind heart disease, stroke, lung cancer and lung diseases. In 2006, 191,410 women were diagnosed and 40,820 died. It lists symptoms and mammogram guidance.
Cancer
Breast Cancer Survivors Carry on - Despite TDM1 Hault
Roche says the FDA found its Phase II data for T-DM1, a conjugated antibody that shrank tumors in HER2-positive breast cancer, did not meet the standard for accelerated approval because other treatments had not been exhausted. Roche plans a submission from the Phase III EMILIA study in mid-2012.
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