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Cleveland Cavaliers to wear pink for breast cancer - WKYC

Posted: 04 Dec 2009 08:29 AM PST

CLEVELAND -- The Cleveland Cavaliers plan to wear pink and are encouraging fans to do the same for a special game night to raise breast cancer awareness.

 

The team says players will wear pink and white shirts during shoot-around Friday night, and coaches and broadcasters will have on pink shirts and ties when the Cavs host the Chicago Bulls at Quicken Loans Arena.

Special pink Cavaliers T-shirts will be sold in the team shop, and an auction in the arena will feature pink and white autographed basketballs, including one signed by LeBron James.

At half time, season ticket personally affected by breast cancer will form a ribbon on the court. It's all part of a campaign called Box Out Breast Cancer to promote breast cancer screenings and early detection.

© 2009 Associated Press

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Targeted Ultrasound Reduces Biopsies - OfficialWire

Posted: 04 Dec 2009 12:37 AM PST

Targeted breast ultrasound may reduce the need for biopsies for women under age 40, U.S. medical researchers said.

Senior author Dr. Constance Lehman of the University of Washington in Seattle and the Seattle Cancer Care Alliance and colleagues conducted two studies where targeted ultrasound effectively distinguished between potentially cancerous masses and benign findings in young women who had detected areas of concern in their breasts.

The first study included 1,123 ultrasound examinations of women under age 30, while the second included 1,577 ultrasound examinations of women ages 30-39.

The researchers concluded high-quality breast ultrasound should be the diagnostic tool of choice for young women seeking care for breast lumps and other suspicious signs and symptoms.

"It is time we used ultrasound to reduce unnecessary morbidity and costs associated with more aggressive invasive approaches," Lehman said in a statement.

The findings of the two studies were presented at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America in Chicago.


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Secondhand cigarette smoke exposure 'ups breast cancer risk' - New Kerala

Posted: 04 Dec 2009 01:56 AM PST

Washington, Dec 4 : Women who are exposed to secondhand smoke for a prolonged period of time and in high quantity face an increased risk of breast cancer, says a new study.

"The question of whether exposure to side-stream smoke could increase risk of breast cancer is one that is unresolved," said Peggy Reynolds, Ph.D., senior research scientist at the Northern California Cancer Center''s Berkeley office.

"While no single epidemiologic study can answer the question, our findings suggest that cumulative high levels of exposure may contribute to breast cancer, adding to the evidence for a variety of other adverse health outcomes," the expert added.

Details of these results are published in Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research. The December issue features a special focus on tobacco studies.

To reach the conclusion, Reynolds and colleagues examined the risk of developing breast cancer among women who had never smoked tobacco products, but who had a history of exposure to secondhand smoke either at home, at work or in social settings. Participants also had no history of breast cancer.

The researchers collected detailed information via questionnaire from more than 57,000 women in the California Teachers Study, then followed them for a decade. Detailed questions helped the researchers to determine whether age at exposure, setting of exposure or amount of exposure influenced the risk of developing breast cancer.

In the years since completing the questionnaire, 1,754 newly diagnosed cases of invasive breast cancer occurred.

Overall, findings showed no evidence that simple measures of secondhand smoke were associated with breast cancer risk. Risk seemed to be confined to exposures experienced during adulthood (among women aged 20 or older) and primarily among those who were postmenopausal; early-life exposures (before the age of 20) did not alone appear to increase their risk.

Women exposed to moderate to high levels for a combination of years and intensity of exposure had a significant dose response so that the risks for developing breast cancer increased as the cumulative exposure levels increased, according to Reynolds.

"We were initially surprised not to see much effect individually for exposure in household, workplace or social settings," she said. "It does make sense though, if there is an effect for higher levels of exposure, the sum of exposures across settings would be more important than only partial measures of exposure."

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High-Risk Women Hesitant to Take Breast Cancer Preventive Drug - Med India

Posted: 04 Dec 2009 03:57 AM PST


The U-M decision was tailored to each woman's health history and was aimed at women who had a high possibility of developing breast cancer in the next five years.

Lead author Angela Fagerlin, and an associate professor of internal medicine at the U-M Medical School, said: "Tailored information is critical because the risks and benefits vary across women. This is one of the most detailed tailored decision aids to address breast cancer prevention. The information about the risks and benefits of tamoxifen was tailored to each woman's health history. That means, when women read this decision aid, they learned about how the drug was likely to affect them given their age, race, breast cancer history and medical history."

She added: "For any given woman, there is not a right or wrong answer in regards to whether she should take tamoxifen to prevent a first diagnosis of breast cancer. The goal of decision aids is to explain the risks and benefits in a clear way so that the woman is able to weigh these factors and make an informed decision about what is best for her."

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Mayor Daley talks about wife's latest health setback - Southtown Star

Posted: 03 Dec 2009 01:03 PM PST

Throughout a 7 1/2-year battle that has defied the odds against metastatic breast cancer, Maggie Daley has been a tower of strength and an inspiration to women facing similar struggles.

Her always emotional husband, Mayor Daley, is not quite so strong. And as Chicagoans well know, he wears his heart on his sleeve.

Today, the mayor talked about his wife's latest setback: radiation treatments for a bone tumor in her right leg that has confined her to a wheelchair.

"Any time you have a health issue, you have setbacks, especially in cancer. [But] Maggie has been a fighter on this issue and Dr. Steve Rosen and all the other doctors and nurses have done a tremendous job," Daley said, his voice choking with emotion.

"She's doing very well. She's having meetings today about afterschool programs. . . . She's had many setbacks. In all families, you have setbacks. But the family comes together [to] be able to defeat any setback in life. . . . Her commitment is to be able to defeat this."

In metastatic breast cancer, cells spread beyond the breast and lymph nodes to other parts of the body.

It wasn't long ago that patients with metastatic breast cancer typically had only a year or two to live.

The mayor was asked today whether he was amazed by his wife's strength and resiliency through the ordeal.

"Maggie's a very kind and very tough person. She comes from a strong family, the Corbitt's. Her mother died when she was younger, and she survived in helping her family. And she's helped our family as well," he said.

Rosen, a Northwestern Memorial Hospital cancer specialist who has overseen Mrs. Daley's care since her diagnosis, could not be reached for comment.

In a statement issued by the mayor's office, Rosen said he ordered Maggie Daley to use a wheelchair to "minimize weight bearing on the leg until the [radiation] therapy is complete."

It's been a tough adjustment for a fiercely independent woman who's used to coming and going as she pleases. But using a wheelchair has also provided the mayor's wife with some insight into the obstacles faced by those with disabilities.

"She'll tell me how people have a difficult time getting around in wheelchairs. . . . Just in and out of a car, things like that. . . That's the other thing people don't realize until you're in a wheelchair," he said.

Fiercely private, Maggie Daley, 66, was secretive about her treatments for the first four years after her diagnosis in June 2002. She broke that silence in April 2006 when she openly marveled at the wonders of science that have kept her alive.

It happened after Mrs. Daley accepted a $1 million grant from Abbott Laboratories that created a science component of her After School Matters program.

"Some of you can imagine my personal respect — enormous respect — and gratitude to our scientists because I stand her as a result of their work. It's phenomenal what . . . has happened over the years," she said.

Afterwards, Maggie Daley shed no light on the nature of her cancer treatments. She would only call herself a "poster child for the good things" happening in medical research in general and cancer research in particular.

The mayor picked up on the "wonders of science" theme in his comments today.

"America has to put more money into medical research. . . . If we don't do it, we fail — not only our parents, but our children and grandchildren," he said.

"We have to put more money into research — whether it's cancer, heart, diabetes, Alzheimer's, autism — all that. . . . In the long run, we're gonna save your son or your daughter or your grandson or great-grandson. To me, it's vitally important."

In April, Mrs. Daley underwent a "biopsy of a bone lesion that has shown subtle changes" in her spine. At the time, experts said it could mean that her breast cancer had spread to the bone, a common occurrence among patients with metastatic breast cancer.

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