(Reuters) - Doctors and investors at a cancer conference starting on Friday will be keen to find out more on the effectiveness of two promising new breast cancer drugs from Swiss drugmakers Roche and Novartis. Roche's T-DM1 and Novartis's Afinitor have been designed to treat two specific types of b

GE and leading healthcare and financial partners announced today a unique global challenge, open for Saudi researchers, entrepreneurs, start-ups and innovators as part of a USD$100 million global open innovation challenge that seeks to identify and bring to market ideas that advance breast cancer di

By Evonne Kok While playing golf on Memorial Day 2007, Mark Burgett, 49, noticed a spot on the left side of his shirt. He thought it was just a spill, but a few days later he noticed one again. This time he realized that he was bleeding from his left nipple. “I went into my doctor, who referred me

By ROWENA BAUTISTA-ALCARAZ MANILA, Philippines -- Remember when you were a child and your mother would lovingly kiss you when you feel under the weather?  Or when you get into little accidents during child play and she would kiss your bump or bruise away?  Those were kisses that reassured

By SHEILA V KUMAR It took seven years of annual mammograms and a cancer diagnosis for Amy Colton to learn something her doctors had realized from the beginning: Her breast tissue is so dense that it could have masked tumors on earlier exams. "I requested a copy of the report sent from my radiologi

September 15, 2011 — Men are on average older than women when diagnosed with breast cancer and have differences in disease characteristics compared with their female counterparts, confirmed a new study presented at the 2011 Breast Cancer Symposium in San Francisco, California.   "Men are diag

Breast and cervical cancers are on the rise worldwide, according to the first global analysis of incidence and mortality trends for the two cancers.   Global breast cancer incidence rose to 1.6 million cases in 2010, up 3.1 percent per year since 1980, Dr. Christopher J.L. Murray of the Unive

BOLINGBROOK — Bolingbrook High School will launch its 2011-12 Raider Care fundraiser for the Susan G. Komen for the Cure Foundation with a Volley for the Cure event Sept. 29.   Sponsored by the BHS volleyball and cheerleading programs, the event will feature the Lady Raiders volleyball games

SIMSBURY — — Dressed in pink shirts, shorts, hats and even a few pairs of pink shoes, residents, town employees and officials flocked to the Simsbury Fire Station on Tuesday, to welcome the three pink firetrucks carrying members of the Guardians of the Ribbon. Simsbury was one of many stops that th

Women with mutations in the breast cancer genes, nicknamed BRCA1 and BRCA2, are being diagnosed with breast cancer six to eight years earlier than their mothers and aunts who also had such mutations, a new study says.   The 106 women in the study with BRCA mutations were diagnosed with breast