-
The modern treatment of breast cancer started in the 1880s with Halsted’s mastectomy but was without major innovation for roughly the next 100 years, according to an essay published in the January issue of The Breast Journal. Then, an explosion of […]
read more -
[This study] lends support to the argument that there are variations in the intrinsic biology of tumors based on racial/ethnic background. In the United States, the likelihood of a woman being diagnosed with early-stage breast cancer and her survival after […]
read more -
Do all women with lymph node-positive breast cancer treated with neoadjuvant chemotherapy need to have all of their axillary nodes surgically removed? The answer seems to depend on whom you ask. For example, Judy Boughey, MD, a surgical oncologist from […]
read more -
- 10 Feb
Rory McIlroy signs a custom made pink golf bag to support Breast Cancer Arabia Foundation. If you’d like to be in with a chance of winning it, simply register at www.golfcitizen.com.
read more -
- 30 Jan
Golfers from around the globe, donned an item of pink clothing or a pink ribbon to show their support for the Breast Cancer Arabia Foundation and breast cancer awareness in the Middle East. The international players included Rory McIlroy […]
read more -
An FDA review has identified a possible link between breast implants and a rare form of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. The review uncovered about three dozen cases of anaplastic large-cell lymphoma (ALCL) in women with breast implants. Most of the cases […]
read more -
According to the National Cancer Institute (NCI) in Cairo, between 2002 and 2012, 19% of cancer patients attending Cairo University had breast cancer and this represented 37% of all female cancers. Breast Cancer Arabia Foundation has made a donation […]
read more -
Mr Richard Reyes FRCS, MS, MBBS, Honorary Chevalier of the International Knightly Order Valiant of St George and co-founder of the Breast Cancer Arabia internet information portal, has had his book ‘Live to 100 or Die Trying’ published. The book […]
read more -
read more- 21 Jan
-
LONDON (Reuters) – A British-led petition signed by 29,000 people has demanded that Switzerland’s Roche, the world’s biggest maker of cancer medicines, cut the price of its expensive new breast cancer drug Kadcyla. The campaign shows the growing pressure […]
read more
