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ABC, Watpac drop legal action over Newstead site
ABC Online, Australia -
The ABC was forced to abandon its Toowong site because of a breast cancer cluster among staff. Watpac says the contract is now at an end and the Newstead ...ASX:WTP
Local bras will help cup runneth over in record bid
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The organisation has already collected about 70000 bras from across the nation and hopes its record attempt will help raise awareness about breast cancer. ...
Area customers test drive BMWs, fight breast cancer
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The Susan G. Komen for the Cure breast cancer foundation is the world's largest and most progressive grassroots network of breast cancer survivors and ...
Young soldier hit by breast cancer diagnosis
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Exercise cuts cancer risk and helps patients feel less weary
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Sunday: Monthly breast self exam: You can skip it
Minneapolis Star Tribune, MN - Jul 30, 2008
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Recent Trends in US Breast Cancer Incidence, Survival, and Mortality Rates -
KC Chu, RE Tarone, LG Kessler, LAG Ries, BF Hankey … - jnci, 1996 - jnci.oxfordjournals.org
... Statistical modeling indicates that the recent drop in breast cancer mortality is
too rapid to be explained only by the increased use of mammography; likewise ...

Incidence of breast cancer in Norway and Sweden during introduction of nationwide screening: … -
PH Zahl? - BMJ, 2004 - pubmedcentral.nih.gov
... Abstract. Objective To determine whether any increase in the incidence of breast
cancer in women detected by mammography is compensated for by a drop in the ...

… of patients with complete remission following combination chemotherapy for metastatic breast cancer -
PA Greenberg, GN Hortobagyi, TL Smith, LD Ziegler, … - Journal of Clinical Oncology, 1996 - jco.ascopubs.org
... at times ranging from 118 to 234 months, 18 patients died of breast cancer, and
one ... The hazard function shows a substantial drop in risk of progression after ...

… Therapy for Postmenopausal Women With Hormone Receptor-Positive Breast Cancer: Status Report 2004 -
EP Winer, C Hudis, HJ Burstein, AC Wolff, KI … - Journal of Clinical Oncology, 2005 - jco.ascopubs.org
... per day (the usual dose employed in the treatment of breast cancer) given on ... who
has truly become postmenopausal has already had a substantial drop in estrogen ...

Aspirin Use and Lung, Colon, and Breast Cancer Incidence in a Prospective Study. -
DM Schreinemachers, RB Everson - Epidemiology, 1994 - JSTOR
... anatomic sites, including bladder, breast, colon, esophagus ... on colon or small bowel
cancer in rodents ... US Environmental Protection Agency, Mail Drop 68, Research ...

Overview of the Main Outcomes in Breast Cancer Prevention Trials. -
J Cuzick, T Powles, U Veronesi, J Forbes, R … - Obstetrical & Gynecological Survey, 2003 - obgynsurvey.com
... be of definite benefit in reducing the risk of breast cancer in appropriate ... These
symptoms have been associated with the postmenopausal drop in estrogen levels ...

Low-dose oral methotrexate and cyclophosphamide in metastatic breast cancer: antitumor activity and … -
M Colleoni, A Rocca, MT Sandri, L Zorzino, G Masci … - Annals of Oncology, 2002 - pt.wkhealth.com
... Conclusions: Continuously low-dose CTX and MTX is minimally toxic and effective
in heavily pretreated breast cancer patients. A drop in VEGF was associated ...

Palliative pamidronate treatment in patients with bone metastases from breast cancer -
AT van Holten-Verzantvoort, HM Kroon, OL Bijvoet, … - Journal of Clinical Oncology, 1993 - jco.ascopubs.org
... a 23% drop-out rate, but other cancer-associated factors seemed to contribute to
this toxicity. CONCLUSION: Pamidronate treatment of breast cancer patients ...

… Without Further Axillary Dissection in Patients With Sentinel Node-Negative Breast Cancer -
AE Giuliano, PI Haigh, MB Brennan, NM Hansen, MC … - Journal of Clinical Oncology, 2000 - jcojournal.org
... sentinel nodes before abandoning ALND as a staging technique in breast cancer patients
with ... will stabilize at about 2% to 5% but likely will never drop to zero ...

Influence of estrogen plus progestin on breast cancer and mammography in healthy postmenopausal … -
RT Chlebowski, SL Hendrix, RD Langer, ML Stefanick … - JAMA, 2003 - geisingermedicalcenter.com
... RESULTS Breast cancer risk characteristics were closely comparable in the 2 ... Par-
ticipants were at moderate breast can- cer ... Drop-ins, based on women who self ...

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Drop in breast cancer tied to less HRT

Last Updated: 2006-12-14 14:37:23 -0400 (Reuters Health)

By Ed Stoddard

DALLAS - A sharp decline in new breast cancer cases in 2003 in the United States may have come about because millions of older women ceased hormone replacement therapy (HRT) the previous year, researchers said on Thursday.

However, they stressed that because their analysis is based on population statistics, the reasons are not completely certain."The investigators report that there was an overall 7 percent relative decline in breast cancer incidence between 2002 and 2003," the University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center said in a statement.

"The steepest decline -- 12 percent -- occurred in women between ages 50-69 diagnosed with estrogen receptor positive (ER-positive) breast cancer," it said. These types of tumors are fueled by the hormone estrogen.

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The study was presented at the 29th annual San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium.

Researchers said that as many as 14,000 fewer women were diagnosed with the disease in 2003 than in 2002, a year in which there were an estimated 203,500 new U.S. cases.

"It is the largest single drop in breast cancer incidence within a single year I am aware of," said Dr. Peter Ravdin, a research professor in the Department of Biostatistics at M. D. Anderson.

"Something went right in 2003, and it seems that it was the decrease in the use of hormone therapy, but from the data we used we can only indirectly infer that is the case," he said in a statement.

HRT provides the hormone estrogen and sometimes also progestin to women after menopause. A big study, the Women's Health Initiative, in 2002 suggested that the combination of estrogen and progestin raised the risk of breast cancer. This brought a premature halt to the study of more than 16,600 women between 50 and 79 who were using HRT, and caused widespread confusion

More analysis of the Women's Health Initiative also showed that HRT could raise the risk of heart disease and especially strokes, and HRT was abandoned except as a way to relieve the most debilitating and stressful symptoms of menopause, such as hot flashes and insomnia.

Ravdin said about 30 percent of American women over the age of 50 had been taking HRT in the early years of this decade but about half of the women stopped in the later part of 2002 after the results of this link were made public.

"Research has shown that ER-positive tumors will stop growing if they are deprived of the hormones, so it is possible that a significant decrease in breast cancer can be seen if so many women stopped using HRT," he said.

"It takes breast cancer a long time to develop, but here we are primarily talking about existing cancers that are fueled by hormones and that slow or stop their growing when a source of fuel is cut," added Donald Berry, an M.D. Anderson professor who helped lead the study.

"Incidence of breast cancer had been increasing in the 20 or so years prior to July 2002, and this increase was over and above the known role of screening mammography. HRT had been proposed as a possible factor, although the magnitude of any HRT effect was not known."

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