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1 | 2 | 3 | NextNew cancer drug 'shows promise' 3 Citations Olaparib was given to 19 patients with inherited forms of advanced breast, ovarian and prostate cancers caused by mutations of the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes., delicious.com
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2 Citations Meet a new group of people: the Previvors. They are not a dance troup or acapella choir. Previvors are members of a select club they never asked to join: surVIVORS with a PREdisposition to cancer., technorati.com
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INTELLECTUAL "PROPERTY": How human genes become patented - 20% of all human genes now patented 1 Citation I've been against this since the 1980s. It's sickening that people will die of breast cancer because they can't afford to pay royalties on a diagnoses method that isn't priced at a free market value because they've patented the testing of certain genes.
Our genetics belong to all of us. Life should not be patentable. Yet another failing of intellectual "property" -- the idea that if you have an idea first, or observe a gene first -- that you "own" it. What self-serving capitalistic b.s. It holds us all back. People die so that someone else can get rich.
Originally from CNN: http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/05/13/genes.patent.myriad/, delicious.com
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New Drug May Treat Triple-Negative Breast Cancer 1 Citation An experimental class of drugs may have potential for the treatment of two types of breast cancer that are notoriously difficult to treat., delicious.com
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New breast cancer drug class stars at ASCO - FierceBiotech 1 Citation In one trial, Sanofi Aventis reported that BSI-201 in combination with chemotherapy extended average survival times by three and a half months, to 9.2 months. That study involved 116 women whose triple-negative breast cancer had metastasized. And in a non-randomized study involving 52 women with BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutations, AstraZeneca's olaparib spurred tumor shrinkage that reached up to 41 percent., delicious.com
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On Valentines Day Walk Like A Man Walk A Thon For Breast Cancer Goes From LA to NY 1 Citation The Walk a Thon for breast cancer is a common way to raise both money and awareness, and each year so many different organizations step up to plate all in the name of finding a cure for breast cancer. A great big thanks goes out to all these organizations and clubs. I thought now would be a good time to provide a list of just a few that are coming up. ? Walk Like a Man ? Walk-A-Thon in support of breast cancer is sponsored by the Crespi All Boys High School Lacrosse team will, technorati.com
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1 Citation A few years ago, my mother lost an ugly ugly battle with pancreatic cancer at the age of 49. Shortly after, I lost my aunt, my mother?s sister, to metastatic breast cancer. She was barely 40 and had fought the disease for almost six years. Somewhere amidst all of this cancer and suffering, I found that I had inherited what is often referred to as ?the breast cancer gene.? BRCA 2 It?s confusing, hard to pronounce, and it places my risk of developing breast cancer within my lifetime s, technorati.com
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Cancer Patients Challenge the Patenting of a Gene 1 Citation
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Breast cancer mutation raises prostate risks in men 1 Citation The so-called breast cancer genes BRCA1 and BRCA2 can raise the risk that a man who develops prostate cancer will get an aggressive form of the disease, U.S. researchers reported on Thursday.
Certain mutations in the genes indicated a man was at risk of more aggressive cancer and should be treated right away, the team at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University said., delicious.com
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