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By Will DunhamWASHINGTON (Reuters) - Doctors are less likely to give black women radiation therapy after surgery to remove early-stage breast cancer than white women, researchers said on Wednesday, adding to evidence of racial disparities in U.S. medicine.The 37,305 women 65 and older examined in the study had undergone a procedure called a lumpectomy in which doctors removed just the tumor and spared the breast, a procedure less radical than a mastectomy, which removes the entire breast.

Four-time Grammy winner Olivia Newton-John announces a partnership with Curves, the world's largest fitness franchise for women to launch an international campaign to distribute 1 million units of the Liv® Aid, a breast self-exam aid that assists women to exercise breast self-exams correctly.

IntroductionEstrogen receptor alpha (ER-alpha) and progesterone receptor (PgR) are consolidated predictors of response to hormonal therapy (HT). In contrast, little information is available regarding the role of estrogen receptor beta (ER-beta) in various breast cancer risk-groups treated with different therapeutic regimens. In particular, there are no data concerning ER-beta distribution within the novel molecular breast cancer subtypes, luminal A (LA) and B (LB), HER2 (HS) and triple negative (TN). Methods: We conducted an observational prospective study evaluating, by immunohistochemistry, ER-beta expression in 936 breast cancers. Associations with conventional bio-pathological factors and with molecular subtypes were analyzed by multiple correspondence analysis (MCA), while classification and regression tree (C&RT) analysis and univariate and multivariate Cox regression analyses were applied to determine the impact of ER-beta expression on disease free survival in the 728 patients

This study addressed the gene expression profile of oestrogen responsive genes also susceptible to modulation by oxidative stress [1]. There is a comprehensive set of 62 core genes from cultured oestrogen- and oestrogen receptor-deprived epithelial breast cancer cells responsive to three forms of oxidant stress. Evidence is presented that oxidative stress may contribute to the development of an aggressive subset of primary oestrogen receptor positive breast cancers. The current study is a first look into the possible association between oxidative stress, loss of oestrogen receptor function and progesterone receptor expression as well as specific breast cancer phenotypes with a poor prognosis.

Katie Couric, Charles Gibson and Brian Williams have something in common besides their jobs: Each has lost loved ones to cancer _ which gives them something in common with nearly everybody.

Title: New Screening Catches More breast CancersCategory: health newscreated: 9/4/2008 2:00:00 amlast Editorial review: 9/4/2008

Advancements in breast cancer treatments mean more Canadian women are surviving breast cancer than ever before.

A local breast cancer advocacy group will hold a Sept. 16 summit in Wausau to help identify survivors' needs.

Cancer patients have complained for years about the mental fog known as chemobrain.

Women who have advanced breast cancer treated in a local community hospital appear to have a lower long-term survival rate than their counterparts treated at academic medical centers, a new study indicates.