Scientific American: The Orphan Drug Backlash

Landmark study breakthrough in breast cancer DNA

By: AnneHart

During Breast Cancer Awareness Month, according to a Newswire press release of October 7, 2009, for the first time in history, BC Cancer Agency scientists in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada have decoded all of the three billion letters in the DNA sequence of a metastatic lobular breast cancer tumor, a type of breast cancer which accounts for ...

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Susan G. Komen for the Cure® Announces Recipients of 2009 Komen ...

By: patelashishme0932

Dallas – October 27, 2009 – Three researchers who have focused much of their careers on developing targeted therapies that both lower the risk of developing hormone-sensitive breast cancers and effectively treat the disease are this year’s winners of the Susan G. Komen for the Cure® Brinker Award for Scientific ...

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How we're winning the war on breast cancer

By: dustgeer

 I was 18 when I first felt a lump in my breast. Of course, I was convinced that I was going to die. This was three decades ago -- back when we knew far less about breast cancer. A general surgeon removed the lump, which, thank goodness, wasn't malignant. But before I was even a fully developed woman, I was rendered lopsided and ...

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Cancer research: an endless war?

By: DrMoskowitz

Cancer research: another endless war?   America’s longest war, the current conflict in Afghanistan, now in its eighth year, has cost far fewer lives and dollars than our country’s nearly forty year-long War on Cancer, begun by President Nixon in 1970. Both still seem to have no end in sight.   The latest strategy in ...

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