News -01-02-07 The Cruel Irony of Hormone Therapy (MSNBC News) "The recent data on breast cancer rates suggest that millions of women could have developed and even died from the disease because of excessive use of hormone replacement therapy (HRT)." "How did this happen?" "A good place to look is a book called 'Feminine Forever,' by Dr. Robert A. Wilson. A best seller when it was published 40 years ago, the book helped persuade millions of physicians and their female patients that HRT was not just helpful, but necessary." 01-07 -01-17-07 Study: Dense Breasts Have Five Times Higher Risk (MSNBC News) "Cancer turns up five times more often in women with extremely dense breasts than in those with the most fatty tissue, a study shows, signaling the importance of a risk factor rarely discussed with patients." 01-07 -01-22-07 Genetic Signature Predicts Recurrence of Breast Cancer (Health.MSN.com) "A genetic 'signature' that consists of 186 genes combined together can predict the risk of breast cancer recurrence in women with the disease, a new study found." 01-07 -01-27-06 Passive Smoke Linked to Breast Cancer (USA Today) "California regulators ruled Thursday that secondhand smoke causes breast cancer in younger women, an unprecedented finding that could lead to tougher anti-smoking measures." 01-06 -03-07-08 Three Ways to Lower Risk of Breast Cancer Recurrence (US News) "New research, though, suggests women may be able to lower their risk of recurrence by taking steps to reduce their estrogen levels. A study of more than 300 breast cancer patients found that those whose cancer came back within seven years had estrogen levels on average that were twice as high as those found in women who remained cancer free; this was true even for those taking tamoxifen." 03-08 -04-11-06 Chemo Cures More Breast Cancers (CNN News) "About two-thirds of breast cancer patients have hormone-fueled tumors. Typically such cancers are treated with tamoxifen and other groundbreaking hormone-blocking drugs, which have fewer side effects. These women sometimes get chemotherapy too, although the new study suggests many of them will do just as well without it." 04-06 -07-16-08 Self-Exams for Breast Cancer May Not Help (MSNBC News) "According to a review by the Cochrane Collaboration, an international organization that evaluates medical research, there’s no evidence that self-exams actually reduce breast cancer deaths." 07-08 -08-07-05 Tumor Size Related to Success Rate (ABC News) "Much of the improvement in breast cancer survival in recent years is because the average tumor is smaller, not just because treatments are so much better, a huge new study has found." " 'This really helps to show the importance of screening.' " 6-05 10-09-03 Cancer - Striking New Treatment (CBC News) "A major Canadian-led study has been stopped early because the drug being tested showed "striking" results in preventing breast cancer survivors from having a recurrence." In the study, women taking letrozole (also known as femara) had half as many recurrences of cancer as those women on a placebo." 10-03 New Study on Estrogen (USA Today) "Up to seven years of postmenopausal estrogen therapy does not raise breast cancer risk in women without a uterus, says a report out Wednesday from a government-sponsored study." "The breast cancer finding for estrogen therapy is quite different than that of a parallel study of estrogen plus progestin, a second hormone given to protect the uterine lining against estrogen's cancer-causing effects. In that study, women's breast cancer risk rose over five years of hormone therapy." 04-06 Papers Breast Cancer (Healthopedia.com) Provides detailed information, listed by condition. 8-04 Breast Cancer (National Cancer Institute) Provides information on the prevention, risk factors, and treatment of breast cancer, as well as side effects of treatment. Breast cancer is the second most common form of cancer for women. 1-04 The BRCA Gene and Cancer (CNN News) "Women with the BRCA gene mutations have a 60 to 80 percent chance of developing breast cancer -- at least five times higher than the general population -- according to the American Cancer Society. Additionally, these women have up to a 60 percent chance of getting ovarian cancer in their lifetime." 07-09

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