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Disparities in breast cancer mortality continues to be high in Chicago: Data

Disparities in breast cancer mortality continued to be unacceptably high in Chicago and significantly larger than the national average according to new data released today at a rally sponsored by the Metropolitan Chicago Breast Cancer Task Force. The Task Force also announced results of the first year of data collection by the Chicago Breast Cancer Quality Consortium, which found many hospitals in Chicago are not meeting accepted quality standards.

22 Oct 2010

New review outlines Bionovo's platform of estrogen receptor modulators for menopausal conditions

Bionovo, Inc. today announced the publication of a review of results from studies discussing new classes of estrogen receptor modulating drugs with distinct mechanism for pharmacological effect. The review is published in the most recent edition of Current Opinion in Pharmacology.

22 Oct 2010

ACOG joins Jay Monahan Center to develop new chapter on Female Cancers resource guide

The New York State Chapter of the American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, District II (ACOG) has partnered with the Jay Monahan Center for Gastrointestinal Health at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center to develop the fifth and final chapter to the Focus on Female Cancers resource guide.

22 Oct 2010

CPIC awarded $2.6M grant to examine obesity, cancer risk within California Teachers Study

The National Cancer Institute has awarded a $2.6 million grant to the Cancer Prevention Institute of California. The award, which is part of a larger collaborative grant, supports CPIC's study of body size and cancer risk within the California Teachers Study, one of the largest longitudinal studies of women's health.

22 Oct 2010

Oral cancer linked to oral sex: Study

Swedish researchers have found that the Human papillomavirus (HPV) that causes cervical cancer in women is also a risk factor for oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC) or oral and throat cancer in men even if they do not smoke or consume alcohol.

21 Oct 2010

Female sex hormones help women survive after trauma

Women who have been severely injured are 14 percent more likely to survive than similarly injured men, according to a new Johns Hopkins study, a difference researchers believe may be due to the negative impact of male sex hormones on a traumatized immune system.

21 Oct 2010

Covidien helps sustain transportation program for low-income women needing prenatal care

One of the obstacles faced by low-income women needing quality prenatal care is a lack of transportation. The average pregnant woman needs to visit the doctor 14 times during those nine months, which can be a significant financial burden for some.

21 Oct 2010

Endocrine Society's statement clarifies association between hormone therapy and breast cancer risk

Richard J. Santen, MD, lead author of The Endocrine Society's Scientific Statement on menopausal hormone therapy, can provide clarity on the association of hormone therapy and increased risk of breast cancer as reported in an article published this week in The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA)

21 Oct 2010

Motherhood may cause brain to grow

Motherhood may actually cause the brain to grow, not turn it into mush, as some have claimed. Exploratory research published by the American Psychological Association found that the brains of new mothers bulked up in areas linked to motivation and behavior, and that mothers who gushed the most about their babies showed the greatest growth in key parts of the mid-brain.

21 Oct 2010

Matrix-Bio's VeraMarker-BCR blood test predicts breast cancer recurrence 13 months before clinical diagnosis

Connie Krabbe understands the fear and foreboding breast cancer survivors feel when visiting their physicians for post-treatment check-ups. Two of her four sisters died of metastatic cancer related to breast cancer, enduring bone, brain, and ovarian cancer before succumbing to the disease in their early 50s.

21 Oct 2010

Effects of breast cancer do not end after chemotherapy

For some women, the effects of breast cancer, the most common cancer affecting women, do not end when they leave the hospital. Now, researchers in the University of Missouri School of Health Professions have studied the lives of breast cancer patients following chemotherapy and found that their environments and available support systems help determine the quality of their lives.

21 Oct 2010

Annual conventional Pap smear is cost effective to reduce cancer incidence and mortality

A study of the options for reducing cancer incidence and mortality among women who have been treated for precancerous cervical lesions found that an annual conventional Pap smear is a cost effective strategy.

21 Oct 2010

Hormone therapy associated with increased risk of death from breast cancer

Results of a new Women's Health Initiative (WHI) report show that hormone therapy is associated with an increased the risk of death from breast cancer, as well as an increased risk of developing invasive breast cancer in postmenopausal women.

21 Oct 2010

Mothers who gush about babies grow bigger brains

21 Oct 2010

Researchers suggest 'watch and wait' strategy for girls with germ-cell ovarian tumors

Researchers from Dana-Farber/Children's Hospital Cancer Center (DF/CHCC) have found that as many as 50 percent of young girls treated for germ-cell ovarian tumors might safely be spared chemotherapy using a "watch and wait" strategy to determine if the follow-up treatment is needed.

21 Oct 2010

Hormone therapy increases breast cancer mortality risk, study finds

Hormone treatment after menopause, already known to increase the risk of breast cancer, also makes it more likely that the cancer will be advanced and deadly, a study finds.

21 Oct 2010

Menopausal estrogen replacement therapy speeds growth of ovarian cancer

Estrogen therapy used by menopausal women causes a type of ovarian cancer to grow five times faster, according to a new study by researchers at the University of Colorado Cancer Center.

21 Oct 2010

Also in Global Health News: Foreign aid in Ethiopia; Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation; Health in Myanmar; Poverty in Zambia; Rwanda's progress on MDGs; Men involved in PMTCT of HIV

Ethiopia's government has been restricting access to food and other types of foreign aid among opposition supporters, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said in a report on Tuesday, Reuters reports (Malone, 10/19). The report is based on more than 200 interviews, conducted over a six-month period in 2009, of people in 53 villages across three regions of the country, according to an HRW press release (10/19).

21 Oct 2010

Overweight dads may pass on diabetes to their daughters: Study

According to a latest study fathers on a high-fat diet are more likely to produce daughters with a higher diabetes risk. The study was published in the journal Nature and it involved laboratory rats.

20 Oct 2010

CRN reinforces importance of DHA before, during and after pregnancy

In response to a study regarding fish oil use during pregnancy published in the October 19 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), the Council for Responsible Nutrition (CRN), the leading trade association for the dietary supplement industry, reminds pregnant and lactating women of the undisputed importance of consuming the recommended amounts of docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) throughout pregnancy.

20 Oct 2010

Women's Health News

Disparities in breast cancer mortality continues to be high in Chicago: Data

New review outlines Bionovo's platform of estrogen receptor modulators for menopausal conditions

ACOG joins Jay Monahan Center to develop new chapter on Female Cancers resource guide

CPIC awarded $2.6M grant to examine obesity, cancer risk within California Teachers Study

Oral cancer linked to oral sex: Study

Female sex hormones help women survive after trauma

Covidien helps sustain transportation program for low-income women needing prenatal care

Endocrine Society's statement clarifies association between hormone therapy and breast cancer risk

Motherhood may cause brain to grow

Matrix-Bio's VeraMarker-BCR blood test predicts breast cancer recurrence 13 months before clinical diagnosis

Effects of breast cancer do not end after chemotherapy

Annual conventional Pap smear is cost effective to reduce cancer incidence and mortality

Hormone therapy associated with increased risk of death from breast cancer

Mothers who gush about babies grow bigger brains

Researchers suggest 'watch and wait' strategy for girls with germ-cell ovarian tumors

Hormone therapy increases breast cancer mortality risk, study finds

Menopausal estrogen replacement therapy speeds growth of ovarian cancer

Also in Global Health News: Foreign aid in Ethiopia; Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation; Health in Myanmar; Poverty in Zambia; Rwanda's progress on MDGs; Men involved in PMTCT of HIV

Overweight dads may pass on diabetes to their daughters: Study

CRN reinforces importance of DHA before, during and after pregnancy

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