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  • Is the bar high enough for screening breast ultrasounds for breast cancer?

    …ve dense breasts and lobbying to roll out all sorts of imaging studies quickly, no matter how well they have been studied, it would not be worth posting. Dense breasts are worrisome to women, especially young women (in their 40s particularly) because they have proved a risk factor for developing breast cancer. Doing ultrasound on every woman with dense breasts, though, who has no symptoms, and a normal mammogram potentially encompasses as many a…

    Authored by on September 21, 2012

  • Think pink? I’d rather raise a stink

    s. presents deeply moving and beautiful expressions  from women with breast cancer, along with intensely personal  statements that provide a window into their hearts and minds.”  Claymon died of breast cancer in 2000. She was 61. Prevention is also a primary concern for the Athena Breast Health Network, a partnership of the five University of California medical centers that collects personalized data on breast cancer patients to optimize trea…

    Authored by on October 8, 2012

  • Breast cancer screening and treatment, especially in younger women

    …recommend starting age 40 for most women. If you have higher or lower risk than average this will vary. #SCCAbcUW Medicine News Mammograms can decrease rate of death from breast cancer, especially true in those women over age 50 #SCCAbc http://1.usa.gov/puQ0NcWendySueSwanson MD RT @seattlecca: T4 Q2: What else can a woman do other than a #mammogram to screen for #breastcancer? #SCCAbcUW Medicine News RT @jrgralow: #SCCAbc Topic 4: Younger women…

    Authored by on October 17, 2012

  • Good Deeds, Good Science: Breast Cancer Research and Education

    …voice angered by the decision of the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation to stop contributing to Planned Parenthood.  And this voice was loud enough to make a difference. If only breast cancer had ears. On February 6, 2012, the world lost not one, but two amazing women to breast cancer: Susan Niebur, also known as WhyMommy; and Rachel Cheetham Moro of The Cancer Culture Chronicles.  Both women spoke candidly about their individual batt…

    Authored by on February 7, 2012

  • The real scandal: science denialism at Susan G. Komen for the Cure®

    …ple. “What’s key to surviving breast cancer? YOU. Get screened now,” the ad says. The unmistakeable takeaway? It’s your fault if you die of cancer. The blurb below the big arrow explains why. “Early detection saves lives. The 5-year survival rate for breast cancer when caught early is 98%. When it’s not? 23%.” If only it were that simple. As I’ve written previously here, the notion that breast cancer is a uniformly progressive disease that starts…

    Authored by on February 11, 2012

  • How helpful are dense-breast right-to-know laws?

    …sk factor for breast cancer; §   mammography sees cancer less well in dense breasts than in normal breasts; and §   women may benefit from additional breast cancer screening. The California law goes into effect on April 1, 2013. It follows four states (Connecticut, Texas, Virginia, and New York) with similar statutes. All have enjoyed solid bipartisan support. Rarely do naysayers or skeptics speak up. Young women who are leading the charge oft…

    Authored by on October 1, 2012

  • From spiders to breast cancer: Leslie Brunetta talks candidly about her cancer diagnosis, treatment, and follow-up

    reatments? Were there times that were better than others for attending to work? Could work be a sort of occupational therapy, when it was possible for you to do it, to keep you engaged? LB: The book had been published about 6 months before my diagnosis. The whole cancer thing really interfered not with the writing, but with my efforts to publicize it. I had started to build toward a series of readings and had to abandon that effort. I had also…

    Authored by on January 31, 2012

  • How pregnant are you? Let’s find out

    …te, and can be used to test either a large number of samples for a single molecule (as might be done in a clinical trial) or a single sample for multiple molecules, as in cancer screening. The current design allows as many as 50 parallel fluidic channels, meaning up to 50 molecules could be tested in parallel. In one experiment, the team used a six-channel design to test a panel of breast cancer cell lines for the abundance of three proteins (est…

    Authored by on January 6, 2013

  • Ask not what science can do for you

    …#8211;repeatedly–for more research into fighting metastatic breast cancer. As she notes, no woman survives this cancer. Thirty percent of cases of breast cancer progress to metastatic (spreading) breast cancer, yet only 3% of funding goes to researching it, even as most women diagnosed with it die within three years. Niebur observes that wearing a ribbon does not cure cancer. She writes, “I just want more time.”  Part of giving…

    Authored by on December 1, 2011

  • Biology Explainer: The big 4 building blocks of life–carbohydrates, fats, proteins, and nucleic acids

    …ll selection of different materials: bricks, mortar, iron, glass, and wood. Arranged in different ways, these few materials can yield a huge variety of structures. We encountered functional groups and the SPHONC in Chapter 3. These components form the four categories of molecules of life. These Big Four biological molecules are carbohydrates, lipids, proteins, and nucleic acids. They can have many roles, from giving an organism structure to be…

    Authored by on June 8, 2012

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