Why do women avoid cancer screening?
Fear plays a major role in whether women decide to go for cancer screening or not, but healthcare providers underestimate how much women need to know and wrongly assume that they will ask… Continue reading
Category Archive: Research
Safe grilling during the summer season
We have had some beautiful sunny weather here in Ireland recently, and that means the barbecue comes out of retirement for the first time since last summer. Nothing says summer quite like that wonderful… Continue reading
New hope for women with hereditary breast cancer
A small clinical trial of a new drug designed to treat hereditary breast cancer has achieved promising results, UK scientists have said. The scientists recruited 54 women from the UK, Europe, the US… Continue reading
“Chemo brain” better with letrozole
That fuzzy headed, forgetfulness we call “chemo brain”, which occurs after chemotherapy, or while on hormonal treatment can be quite distressing as you try to pick up the pieces of your life and move… Continue reading
Conflicting evidence on Tamoxifen and anti-depressants
Women who take anti-depressants, while on tamoxifen, may or may not be at risk of recurrence. According to ABC News, conflicting evidence has emerged at the annual meeting of the American Society for… Continue reading
Biological markers may indicate poor breast cancer prognosis
A team of researchers has found an association between breast cancer survival and two proteins that, when present in the blood in high levels, are indicators of inflammation. Using data from the Health,… Continue reading
Breast MRI finds “unsuspected” cancers
Nearly 20% of patients with recently diagnosed breast cancer had additional malignant tumors found only by MRI, according to a study performed at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center. A total of 199 patients with… Continue reading
Link between cancer and depression
Interesting article in ScienceNow magazine on the link between cancer and depression. Jennifer Couzin-Frankel writes: ” It’s no surprise that a life-threatening disease such as cancer can make you depressed. But what if… Continue reading
Cancer-fighting fountain pen
A research team at Northwestern University has demonstrated a tool that can precisely deliver tiny doses of drug-carrying nanomaterials to individual cells. The tool, called the Nanofountain Probe, functions in two different ways:… Continue reading
New device continuously monitors cancer growth
A Massachusetts Institute of Technology team says it has created the first implantable device that can continuously monitor cancer growth. Surgical removal of a tissue sample, a procedure known as a biopsy, is… Continue reading
