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- Texas woman accused of faking breast cancer and spending $10,000 in ... - Minneapolis Star Tribune
- Traditional Indian coffee compound could affect colon, breast cancer - Daily News and Analysis
- Clean Air Cab donates funds to Komen - Phoenix Business Journal
- Australian bid to 'regrow' breasts after cancer surgery - Manila Bulleting Online
| Breakthrough procedure to 'regrow' breasts after cancer surgery - WOAI Posted: 13 Nov 2009 04:37 AM PST MELBOURNE - A new surgical technique may allow women to regrow their breasts after a mastectomy. Doctors from Melbourne's Bernard O'Brien Institute of Microsurgery said they had developed an implantable device that uses a woman's own fat cells to grow back breasts following a mastectomy. A sample of the woman's fat tissue is put into a breast-shaped chamber. That chamber is then inserted in the chest. A blood vessel is connected to the fat tissue, which allows the tissue to grow and fill the chamber over six to eight months. "There is a dollop of fat that is put inside a device, a chamber, fed with the blood supply and then this dollop of fat will grow into the space and essentially feel normal to the patient," said lead researcher Phillip Marzella. Australian scientists hope to develop a biodegradable chamber that would dissolve once filled. Trials on pigs had proved "very successful" and the question was whether the human body could grow fat in the breast area, said Marzella. Human trials are expected to begin within months. Breast cancer is the most common form of the disease among women worldwide and the leading cause of female cancer fatalities. This content has passed through fivefilters.org.  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Texas woman accused of faking breast cancer and spending $10,000 in ... - Minneapolis Star Tribune Posted: 13 Nov 2009 12:50 PM PST WACO, Texas - Authorities say a Texas woman lied about having breast cancer and spent $10,000 raised at a benefit to have her breasts enlarged. McLennan County sheriff's investigator James Pack says in court records that 24-year-old Trista Joy Lathern shaved her head to look like a cancer patient undergoing chemotherapy. Pack says Lathern wanted breast implants to try to save her seven-month marriage. The Waco Tribune-Herald reports that Lathern is charged with theft by deception. Sheriff's officials and Lathern's attorney didn't immediately return phone calls from The Associated Press. ___ Information from: Waco Tribune-Herald, http://www.wacotrib.com This content has passed through fivefilters.org.  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Traditional Indian coffee compound could affect colon, breast cancer - Daily News and Analysis Posted: 13 Nov 2009 04:22 AM PST Washington: A compound in coffee, which has long been in use in India, has been found to be estrogenic, according to Texas AgriLife Research scientists. Trigonelline or "Trig"-a natural compound used in traditional Indian culture for post-menopausal women may be a factor in estrogen-dependent breast cancer but beneficial against colon cancer development, they said. "The important thing to get from this is that 'trig' has the ability to act like a hormone. So there is a tie to cancer in the sense that we are looking at estrogen-dependent cancer cells. But that doesn't suggest that it would actually cause the disease. I don't believe there should be any concern about drinking coffee at this point," said Dr. Clinton Allred, AgriLife Research nutrition scientist. He studies dietary compounds that can mimic the hormone estradiol - the primary hormone in women. His main focus has been to look at how estrogen protects against the development of colon cancer. Estradiol is one of three estrogen hormones. Allred said a former colleague mentioned an interest in finding the properties of "trig", but as the chemical structure of this compound was so unlike estradiol, he didn't think the compound would be estrogenic. "Estrogen-dependent tumors in the presence of estradiol will grow faster. If you use those cells in a laboratory setting, you can determine whether something is estrogenic because they will literally make a tumor grow faster," said Allred. He said that a series of experiences and different approaches showed that "trig," a vitamin derivative, was fairly estrogenic at very low concentrations. "We haven't gotten as far as to suggest that if a woman had the disease that it would necessarily be a problem. But what we've proven is that the compound is estrogenic or can be at certain concentrations and doses," said Allred. He added that "trig" is in coffee beans, though in different amounts depending on the variety of coffee bean. "The more you roast a coffee bean, the less there is. But the most critical aspect is that when you do a water extract of ground coffee, which is basically how you make a cup of coffee. It does in fact come out in the water, so we know it is in a cup of coffee," said Allred. Nevertheless, the researchers have no idea what the exposure level would be or whether a particularly exposure - say from one cup of coffee - would be in the range seen in the laboratory tests. "It is way too early to say that drinking a cup of coffee is exposing you to something that is definitely going to be estrogenic. All we know is that there is a compound in there that can be estrogenic in our systems. That is really the take-home message," Allred said. He also cautioned that people often narrow one compound in a food without considering the total mix of compounds and how they interact with each other or in a human body. "There is never a single compound when you're looking at food, and a cup of coffee is a food. There's a whole bunch of other things in it. There's caffeine. There's actually a little bit of fat. There are all sorts of others things in a cup of coffee that could interact with this," said Allred. He explained that the numerous compounds in each food product means there are complex interactions, which is why nutritionists advise people that the whole food is better than any individual compound. "That's why you can't take supplements to make up for food. You can never take all the things that are in a carrot and replace a carrot. In the end, you need to eat the carrot. We're a long way from understanding what this compound could do in the context of a food," he said. The study was published in the Journal of Nutrition. This content has passed through fivefilters.org.  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Clean Air Cab donates funds to Komen - Phoenix Business Journal Posted: 12 Nov 2009 02:29 AM PST Valley transportation startup Clean Air Cabs rolled out a plan to donate $1 from every fare to Susan G. Koman for the Cure, complete with a pink Prius cab. The company, which launched last month, will donate the fare portions for a full year. The pink cab can be requested, but the company plans to mix it in with its regular fleet. Steve Lopez, founder of Clean Air Cab, said he made the decision on the donation because both his mother and grandmother are breast cancer survivors. For more: www.cleanaircab.com. This content has passed through fivefilters.org.  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Australian bid to 'regrow' breasts after cancer surgery - Manila Bulleting Online Posted: 12 Nov 2009 11:07 PM PST MELBOURNE, November 12, 2009 (AFP) - Australian scientists said Thursday they were to trial a revolutionary treatment which would allow women to regrow their breasts after cancer surgery. Doctors from Melbourne's Bernard O'Brien Institute of Microsurgery said they had developed an implantable device that uses a woman's own fat cells to grow back breasts following a mastectomy. "There is a dollop of fat that is put inside a device, a chamber, fed with the blood supply and then this dollop of fat will grow into the space and essentially feel normal to the patient," said lead researcher Phillip Marzella. Resembling a perforated brassiere cup, Marzella said the chamber would eventually fill with fat as the initial deposit expands because "nature abhors a vacuum". Initial participants would have to undergo a second operation to remove the chamber, but he said a biodegradable version that would dissolve within weeks was planned. "In terms of the breast certainly I think this is the first time it has been done in the world using this technology," Marzella told AFP. "Certainly there's work that has been done using stem cells but this is a completely different device that uses the patient's own blood supply." Trials on pigs had proved "very successful" and the question was whether the human body could grow fat in the breast area, he said. The hospital, which received a three million dollar (US $2.8 million) government research grant, had been given human ethics clearance and the first human trials will begin early next year, he added. Breast cancer is the most common form of the disease among women worldwide and the leading cause of female cancer fatalities. This content has passed through fivefilters.org.  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
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