MAPLEWOOD, Minn. (WCCO) - A sea of pink tents helped brighten up the gray skies in Maplewood. This tent city is part of the Susan G. Komen 3-Day, an event designed to raise money for breast cancer ... read more..
breast cancer survivors and published their findings in Psycho-Oncology. They found that even three years after successful treatment, two-thirds of the 202 breast cancer survivors who participated ... read more..
More than 60 percent of breast cancer survivors report at least one treatment-related complication even six years after their diagnosis, according to a new study led by a researcher from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania... read more..
ConclusionsThe hypothesis was supported that fatigue, symptom burden, and risk perception are associated with cancer worry among breast cancer survivors. It is possible that lingering fatigue and other symptoms may remind breast cancer survivors of their disease. Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. (Source: Psycho-Oncology) read more..
(National University of Singapore) Researchers from the National University of Singapore and National Cancer Centre Singapore found that Asians breast cancer sufferers undergoing chemo develop memory loss and decision-making and speech problems. (Source: EurekAlert! - Cancer) read more..
(American Association for Cancer Research) Dietary cadmium, a toxic metal widely dispersed in the environment and found in many farm fertilizers, may lead to an increased risk of breast cancer, according to a study published in Cancer Research, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research. (Source: EurekAlert! - Biology) read more..
Conclusions:CD8+ tumor infiltrating lymphocytes are an independent prognostic factor associated with better patient survival in basal-like breast cancer, but not in non-basal triple negative breast cancers nor in other intrinsic molecular subtypes. (Source: Breast Cancer Research) read more..
A multimodal exercise program focusing on core stability exercises and myofascial release massage can significantly reduce cancer-related fatigue in breast cancer survivors, show results of a randomized controlled trial. (Source: MedWire News - Ob/Gyn) read more..
Lymphedema, a chronic swelling condition common in breast cancer survivors, affects three million people in the US. In the past, most people believed that exercise might induce or worsen lymphedema. After reviewing the literature, researchers say the benefits of exercise outweigh the risks for breast cancer survivors and patients with lymphedema. read more..
A heart-warming series of commercials currently running on television shows factory workers wishing they could meet the cancer survivors whose lives have been saved by the technology they build. My favorite part of these commercials is the survivor who says that she now has "no evidence of disease." She does not utter the over-used and misleading term "cancer-free." The problem with the term "cancer-free" is that generally... read more..
