The Food and Drug Administration announced the approval of Nolvadex (tamoxifen citrate) for reducing the incidence of breast cancer in women at high risk for developing the disease. This new indication for tamoxifen, which has been used as a breast cancer treatment for more than 20 years, resulted f

Fox Chase Cancer Center has been chosen to participate in the second national breast cancer prevention trial to be conducted by the National Surgical Adjuvant Breast and Bowel Project and sponsored by the National Cancer Institute. The new study of tamoxifen and raloxifene, called STAR, is expected

There have been great breakthroughs in cancer research over the past several months. Elizabeth Farnsworth sorts through the news on cancer with a panel of oncologists.  ELIZABETH FARNSWORTH: For several months running newspaper headlines have trumpeted good news from the cancer research fron

Dr. Ahlam Mansour, of the College of Nursing, has received a $20,000 grant from the Canadian Breast Cancer Research Initiative (CBCRI) to conduct a feasibility study of the effects of Reiki [pron. ray-key], a so-called energy medicine involving the application of what she terms "universal life energ

Adapted from"Living Beyond Breast Cancer" by Ellen Weiss and Marisa Weiss, M.D., forthcoming from Random House in 1997. Cancer and diet, what's the connection? For years, public health researchers have pointed to the high fat diet in the United States versus the low fat diet in Asia as the prima

Vancouver - The BC Cancer Agency and the Canadian Cancer Society (BC and Yukon Division), in co-operation with Health Canada, announced today the release of the Clinical Practice Guidelines for the Care and Treatment of Breast Cancer. The guidelines are the result of a combination of evidence from s

A study published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine reported that half of all African-American women 65 or older do not have regular mammograms, despite findings African-American women constitute half the breat cancer deaths among women. The study explored the breast cancer views of 2