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1I-Spy Trial Offers Key Insights Into Locally Advanced Breast Cancer 1 Citation Dr. Laura Esserman , director of UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center?s Breast Care Center is spearheading the development of a clinical trials model designed to accelerate and improve the efficiency with which experimental breast cancer therapies are assessed. The strategy, which involves the use of molecular markers and MRI, utilizes ?adaptive design,? in which drugs are assessed over the course of months ? rather than decades ? and the information used in real time to dir, technorati.com
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health news: GAO: Agency Health Of Indians Lost More Equipment 1 Citation WASHINGTON- The Indian health care continue to lose equipment at an alarming rate despite efforts to improve the housing agency after the Congress of the investigators. The report of Wednesday, the Government Accountability Office said that government agencies have lost about 1400 articles in the value of $ 3.5 million between October 2007 and January 2009 - including $ 37,000 in the laboratory of the Health and Navajo $ 7,300 trailer in Nashville, Tennessee These losses, estimated at 15, technorati.com
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What to Do When the Doctor Finds "Suspicious Results" on Your Mammogram 1 Citation B'SD 18 Sivan 5769 An acquaintance of mine has survived one serious medical diagnosis already. The other day she was shocked out of her sox, so to speak, to get a phone call about a recent mammogram. The doctor wanted to run more tests due to "suspicious" results. Any normal person would feel a surging rise in their blood pressure over this news. She did. And she added self-blame to the problem. Why? Because she's been taking Hormone Replacement Therapy, a known risk, technorati.com
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At risk women not having mammograms 1 Citation Women who have been treated for ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) tend to stop following the recommended guidelines for mammography screening over time, despite the fact that they still have a higher-than-average risk for recurrence and development of a new DCIS in the other breast.This finding, published online ahead of print in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, is drawn from a study of more than 3,000 women who underwent breast-conserving surgery for DCIS between 1990 and 2001. Breast-conserving, technorati.com
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Breast MRI finds ?unsuspected? cancers 1 Citation 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 newly diagnosed breast cancer underwent breast MRI. ?We found additional, unsuspected cancers in the ipsilateral breast (the one that had already been diagnosed with cancer) in 16% of patients; we found cancers in the contralateral breast (the one that had not been diagnosed with cancer), technorati.com
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Unilateral Calcifying Lupus Mastitis in a Male Breast 1 Citation Unilateral Calcifying Lupus Mastitis in a Male Breast Jeroen Crevits, Andreas Van Steen, Chantal Van Ongeval, Guy Marchal The Breast Journal 2009 15; 3: 307-308 Link to Journal Lupus mastitis consists of subcutaneous nodules or plaques, with or without epidermal manifestations, usually leaving persistent areas of lipoatrophy. Those which tend to undergo necrosis may be associated with areas of dystrophic calcification. In men without gynecomastia calcifications can only be due to fat necr, technorati.com
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Barium Sulphate Particles in Breast Mimicking Malignant Type Microcalcification 1 Citation Barium Sulphate Particles in Breast Mimicking Malignant Type Microcalcification Louise Bamford, Tong F. Lioe, Declan M. O'Rourke, Miriam R.E. Buckley The Breast Journal 2009 15; 3: 305-306 Link to Journal Because of its radiopaque properties, barium sulphate has long been used impregnated into wound dressings, making it visible on X-ray, a useful identifying tool in cases of misplaced dressing materials. It is most likely that the barium sulphate was introduced into the breast from wound d, technorati.com
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1 Citation I?ve done nothing but battle with crazy ass QUACKS this last two weeks. From the battle with SmartMoney.com to my letters to the editor , I?ve been a busy little bee! Pharmagirl10 brought this crap to my attention: One Doctor?s Quest to Cut Unneeded Treatments (Behold These Six Common Medical Procedures That Do No Patient Any Good) What happened to responsible journalism? What happened to not scaring the shit out of uneducated, not-all-of-them-are-fucking-doctor Americans? You simply CA, technorati.com
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HUGE BREAKTHROUGH in Breast Cancer Diagnosis; When Will We See It in the U.S.?? (If Ever?) 1 Citation By InsightAnalytical-GRL According to the medical industry, mammograms are a must for early detection of breast cancer. The benefits of early detection is well worth the risks of being irradiated on a regular basis. What if there was a much simpler and safer way to test for this disease? Well, a few days ago on Radio Australia I heard a segment on Australia?s ?Smart 100 Awards.? In fact, the number one ?smart idea? was a simple procedure to help in the discovery of breast cancer. This i, technorati.com
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Best Breast Enhancement Without Surgery - Is it Possible? 1 Citation There are enough reasons why a woman?s breast can sag and cause untold happiness to her. For some it is as a result of pregnancy and the breast feeding that is going to follow thereafter. When we age the skin loses its elasticity and becomes subject to the force of gravity as well so sagging is simply natural. Yet for others, they were not naturally endowed with big breasts so they require a procedure to rectify the situation. Thanks to the great developmental strides that have been made in th, technorati.com
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