Archive for 'Breast cancer'
NEW CME: Screening for Breast Cancer: Uncertainties and Controversies
Presented by:
David Thomas, MD, PhD,
Epidemiology Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Professor, University of Washington School of Public Health and Community Medicine
Attend this CME to learn about …
• Current evidence for the efficacy of mammography, CBE and BSE, and limitations of this evidence.
• U.S. Preventive Services Task Force recommendations for breast cancer screening and how unanswered questions [...]
Posted: August 19th, 2009 under Breast cancer, CME.
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Breast Cancer Vaccine Blasts Some Tumors In animal studies, it eliminated aggressive growths
An experimental breast cancer vaccine eliminated tumors in laboratory animals and may someday help prevent cancer recurrence or help treat women with treatment-resistant forms of breast cancer.
“The results were striking,” said study author Dr. Wei-Zen Wei, a professor of immunology and microbiology at the Karmanos Cancer Center at Wayne State University. The research was published [...]
Posted: September 15th, 2008 under Breast cancer, Treatments, Vaccine.
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