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Date: 08/25/2015
Concerns about fertility kept a third of young women with breast cancer from taking tamoxifen, despite its known benefit in reducing the risk of breast cancer coming back.
Date: 08/07/2015
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Date: 07/29/2015
The University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center’s Breast Oncology Program was one of nine beneficiaries of the 2014 QVC Presents "FFANY Shoes on Sale" event. FFANY and QVC representatives presented a check for $380,000 to the Rogel Cancer Center.
Date: 06/23/2015
Cancerous tumors cast off tiny telltale genetic molecules known as microRNAs and a team of University of Michigan researchers has come up with an efficient way to detect them in blood.
Date: 06/19/2015
President Barack Obama announced his selection of Max S. Wicha, M.D., as one of five new appointees to the National Cancer Advisory Board.
Date: 06/10/2015
A new study suggests that fusion of one normal cell with another — as observed in inflammation, infection, and injury from carcinogens — triggers a “genomic catastrophe” that converts normal cells to cancer cells and enables tumors to form.
Date: 06/02/2015
A survey of women with breast cancer found that nearly half considered having a double mastectomy. But of those who considered it, only 37 percent knew that the more aggressive procedure does not improve survival for women with breast cancer.
Date: 05/22/2015
In a major advance in precision medicine, an international collaboration of researchers found 90 percent of castration resistant metastatic prostate cancers harbored some kind of genetic anomaly that could drive treatment choices.