Topic: Breast Cancer Treatment
Reuters US Online Report Health News | 2009-12-11 15:43:53
<div><p>CHICAGO (Reuters) - Chemotherapy helps improve breast cancer survival in post-menopausal women, adding to a long-standing debate about how best to treat these women, U.S. researchers said Thursday.</p><p>A gene-based test called Oncotype DX made by Genomic Health Inc may help identify a small group of women who ...
AP News | 2009-11-03 07:15:59
<div id="subtitle">HEALTHBEAT: Effort to address breast cancer in poor countries focuses on exams, cheaper chemo</div><div><p>Nurses were training women in rural Mexico to examine their breasts for cancer when one raised her hand to object. If she lost her breast, Harvard public health specialist Felicia Knaul recalls ...
AP News | 2009-11-02 18:05:35
<div id="subtitle">HEALTHBEAT: Specialists plan how to counter troubling breast cancer rise in poorest countries</div><div><p>Nurses were training women in rural Mexico to examine their breasts for cancer when one raised her hand to object. If she lost her breast, Harvard public health specialist Felicia Knaul recalls the ...
consumeraffairs.com | 2009-11-02 16:02:38
<div id="subtitle">$17.5 million settlement reached in Newfoundland, Labrador suit</div><div><p>A $17.5 million preliminary settlement has been reached in a lawsuit alleging severe flaws in a Canadian health care provider's breast cancer screening. Hormone receptor tests administered by Eastern Health Corp. returned scores of incorrect ...
