Seen that? - New Tool For Detecting Breast Csncer
Filed in archive Best of on December 7, 2009
New Tool For Detecting Breast Csncer at Well Woman Blog
My mother lost both breasts to breast cancer. The first breast was removed back in the forties by a doctor that didn't know what he was doing. It left horrific scars and a lifelong fear of breast cancer in both my mother and me. She lost the second breast in the sixties. The radiation and chemo treatments made her very sick. Most of her hair fell out. Earlier detection would have [...] Read More
My Experience With Breast Cancer at Well Woman Blog
Breast Cancer The year was 1947. I was twelve years old and scared. Something was wrong. Mom cried a lot, spent hours lying on her bed, and refused to talk to anyone. Dad walked around looking angry and growled at me when I spoke to him. I'd seen him like this before. He wasn't really mad. He was worried, like the time the hail wrecked the wheat. I could feel the tension, [...] Read More
Chemicals and Breast Cancer at Well Woman Blog
Looking for a cause for breast cancer? Family history and your genetic makeup may account for a small number of cases, but according to the Cancer Blog: A bundle of scientific reports indicate more than 200 chemicals, found in the air and in consumer products, cause breast cancer in animal tests. Scary, isn't it? Even more so when you read the list of potential culprits: There are 216 chemicals that induced breast tumors [...] Read More
Using Chicken Antibodies for Detecting HER2 Breast Cancer at The Biotech Weblog
Researchers report of a novel method to detect an aggressive form of breast cancer that overproduce HER2-encoded proteins, using antibodies from chicken. In a paper in the International Journal of Cancer, the NIST-NCI-SAIC research team found that chicken immunoglobulin Y (IgY) antibody created against the HER2 protein could be tagged with quantum dots (tiny, intense and tunable sources of colorful light) to more reliably detect the HER2 biomarker than the existing [...] Read More
deCODE BreastCancer Genetic Diagnostic Test Launched at The Biotech Weblog
Photo courtesy of iStockphoto, Dawn PolanddeCoODE Genetics launched deCODE BreastCancerâ„¢, a new non-invasive tool for assessing risk of the common forms of breast cancer. The deCODE BreastCancerâ„¢ test measures seven widely replicated single-letter variations (SNPs) in the human genome that deCODE and others have linked to risk of breast cancer. These SNPs contribute to the incidence of an estimated 60 percent of all breast cancers. The test integrates data from [...] Read More
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