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Breast implant problems can be stopped with conscientious doctors

Breast implant problems can be stopped with conscientious doctors

January 22, 2012 2:43 pm by | 2 Comments

This year began with a breast implant scandal. This one has brought back memories of the one early in my private practice.The current one involves the PIP-branded breast implants ... Read more
Does Burzynski movie buzz come at the worst time for the FDA?

Does Burzynski movie buzz come at the worst time for the FDA?

December 27, 2011 8:00 am by | 5 Comments

Burzynski.To some the name evokes a sense of hope. But to others, the name conjures skepticism, even ridicule. For those who don’t know, Dr. Stanislaw Burzynski is a Texas physician ... Read more
Reduction mammoplasty eases much more than physical discomfort

Reduction mammoplasty eases much more than physical discomfort

November 28, 2011 1:44 pm by | 0 Comments

This article (full reference below) on the additional benefits an individual gains from having a reduction mammoplasty (RM) has been published online ahead of print. The authors performed a systemic ... Read more
How we’ve fought cancer so far: A brief summary

How we’ve fought cancer so far: A brief summary

November 2, 2011 12:42 pm by | 0 Comments

We’ve been fighting the war on cancer for forty years and although there has been a decrease in U.S. cancer deaths, the global burden of cancer has doubled over the ... Read more
PSA test recommendation needed a little healthcare PR help

PSA test recommendation needed a little healthcare PR help

October 18, 2011 3:47 pm by | 0 Comments

Last Friday at 3 p.m., the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality held a telephone briefing to inform the press and public about the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force recommendation ... Read more
Catheter, breast cancer imaging companies receive fresh capital

Catheter, breast cancer imaging companies receive fresh capital

October 17, 2011 5:04 pm by | 0 Comments

A pair of Pennsylvania medical companies – one focused on cardiac catheterization and the other improving breast cancer imaging – have received fresh funding from the state’s economic development and ... Read more
Five movies about breast cancer (with a dash of sentimentality)

Five movies about breast cancer (with a dash of sentimentality)

October 17, 2011 2:56 pm by | 0 Comments

I caught this movie last week flipping though channels looking for something to watch while I knitted.“Five” stars Patricia Clarkson, Rosario Dawson, Lyndsy Fonseca, Ginnifer Goodwin, Josh Holloway, Tony Shalhoub, ... Read more
Best outcome of PSA debate is more active, informed decision making

Best outcome of PSA debate is more active, informed decision making

October 12, 2011 9:32 am by | 1 Comments

Much has and will be written on the new US Preventive Services Task Force (USPTF) recommendations against routine use of the prostate specific antigen (PSA) blood test in healthy men ... Read more
Color-coating cancer to ’change the paradigm’ for cancer surgery

Color-coating cancer to ’change the paradigm’ for cancer surgery

October 2, 2011 10:56 pm by | 0 Comments

Dr. Sunil Singhal is the director of the Thoracic Surgery Research Laboratory at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, a laboratory he started four years ago. ... Read more
Women at risk for genetic, BRCA breast cancer should be screened sooner

Women at risk for genetic, BRCA breast cancer should be screened sooner

September 14, 2011 10:34 am by | 0 Comments

Somewhere along the line I learned to encourage women with a family history of breast cancer to begin getting mammograms at an age 10 years prior to when their mother ... Read more
GSK halts part of breast cancer trial; drug can’t top Herceptin

GSK halts part of breast cancer trial; drug can’t top Herceptin

September 9, 2011 11:51 am by | 0 Comments

GlaxoSmithKline (NYSE:GSK) has halted part of a phase 3 breast cancer clinical study after an independent committee concluded that the GSK drug administered alone is unlikely to work better than ... Read more
Cancer-detection company Oncoscope closes on $2M fundraise

Cancer-detection company Oncoscope closes on $2M fundraise

September 2, 2011 1:03 pm by | 0 Comments

Cancer-detection medical device company Oncoscope has closed on $2 million in financing, according to securities filings.Durham, North Carolina-based Oncoscope is developing an optical imaging system that can be used for ... Read more
University of Cincinnati studying new approach to attacking breast cancer

University of Cincinnati studying new approach to attacking breast cancer

September 1, 2011 3:25 pm by | 0 Comments

A University of Cincinnati researcher has received a $587,000 federal grant to study a new way of attacking breast cancer.The goal is to develop a breast cancer treatment by indirectly ... Read more
MRI-guided radiotherapy firm ViewRay gets $10M in new funding

MRI-guided radiotherapy firm ViewRay gets $10M in new funding

August 30, 2011 5:02 pm by | 0 Comments

A company that’s developing MRI-based technology to deliver radiation therapy to cancer patients has secured $10 million in new investment funding.Oakwood Village, Ohio-based ViewRay‘s $10.3 million fundraise comes from existing ... Read more
UNC shares in $19.3M NCI grant to study breast cancer disparities

UNC shares in $19.3M NCI grant to study breast cancer disparities

August 30, 2011 10:21 am by | 0 Comments

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is sharing in a $19.3 million National Cancer Institute grant to study why young, African-American women are at greater risk for breast ... Read more