New Treatment in Breast Cancer Detection
World’s First Multi-Use Automated Breast Volume Ultrasound System
Mammography has long been the standard for detecting breast cancer in its early stages, however dense breast tissue can make tumors difficult to find. According to the New England Journal of Medicine, women with dense breast tissue are five times more likely to develop breast cancer.
Now a new type of ultrasound treatment, the Acuson S2000 Automated Breast Volume Scanner (ABVS),
Metadherin, the breast cancer gene linke...
New Brunswick, N.J., January 5, 2009 – A team of researchers at Princeton University and The Cancer Institute of New Jersey (CINJ) has identified a long-sought gene that is fatefully switched on in 30 to 40 percent of all breast cancer patients, spreading the disease, resisting traditional chemotherapies and eventually leading to death. CINJ is a Center of Excellence of UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School.
The gene, called
National Breast Cancer Awareness Month
October is the National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, the annual international health campaign organized by major breast cancer charities. There are many events that are going to be held on National Breast Cancer Awareness Month 2008, all these events are aimed to increase public understanding of the disease that claimed the lives of so many people.
Breast cancer is the most common cancer in women in the United States and the
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