Diagnosis and Treatment

What is cancer?

Cancer is a term used for diseases in which abnormal cells divide without control and are able to invade other tissues. Cancer cells can spread to other parts of the body through the blood and lymph systems.

In Tests, Vitamin D Shrinks Breast Cancer Cells

Doctors have known that low levels of vitamin D are linked to certain kinds of cancers as well as to diabetes and asthma, but new research also shows that the vitamin can kill human cancer cells.

The results fall short of an immediate cancer cure, but they are encouraging, medical professionals say.

JoEllen Welsh, a researcher with the State University of New York at Albany, has studied the effects of vitamin D for 25 years. Part of her research involves taking human breast cancer cells and treating them with a potent form of vitamin D.

Study: Aspirin Cuts Risk of Death After Breast Cancer

Breast cancer survivors who take aspirin regularly may be less likely to die or have their cancer return, U.S. researchers reported Tuesday.

The study of more than 4,000 nurses showed that those who took aspirin — usually to prevent heart disease — had a 50 percent lower risk of dying from breast cancer and a 50 percent lower risk that the cancer would spread.

How to Live Well Beyond Breast Cancer

Most books about breast cancer are focused on a woman’s immediate crisis, helping them learn more about the disease and make urgent treatment decisions. But what happens to women after all the decisions are made, the treatment is finished and life is supposed to go back to normal?

January 15, 2010

Core needle biopsy procedures may be reasonable alternative to surgical biopsy for breast cancer

Stereotactic- and ultrasound-guided core needle biopsy procedures were almost as accurate as surgical biopsy in women of average-risk suspected of having breast cancer; however, the core needle biopsies yielded lower complication rates.

Researchers examined the harms and benefits of these two biopsy procedures by examining clinical data gathered from trials taken from databases including Medline and Embase between 1990 and 2009. The strength of evidence supporting the conclusions was graded as high, moderate, low or insufficient.

BLOG: The Struggle to Simply Let Go

I am a yoga teacher, a cycle instructor and a naturopathic doctor. I have been doing this for over twenty years. At fifty-six I am fit and strong. My body is toned and tight and I can pass for a woman fifteen years my junior. I motivate, inspire and console. I love my life and appreciate that every day I get to go to gym or a studio and help people feel and look better. But here is another side to my story.

Inflammatory Breast Cancer (IBC)

What is inflammatory breast cancer?
Inflammatory breast cancer (IBC) is rare. It is not a new type of breast cancer, but it is very important to distinguish IBC from other types of breast cancer because there are major differences in its symptoms, prognosis, and treatment.

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Diabetes Medication May Get New Life as Cancer Treatment

The drug metformin, a mainstay of diabetes care for 15 years, may have a new life as a cancer treatment, researchers said.
In a study in mice, low doses of the drug, combined with a widely used chemotherapy called doxorubicin, shrank breast-cancer tumors and prevented their recurrence more effectively than chemotherapy alone.
The findings add to a growing body of evidence that metformin, marketed as Glucophage by Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. and available in generic versions, could be a potent antitumor medicine.

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