Posts Tagged ‘breast cancer screen’
Young Women with Breast Cancer – The Forgotten Generation?
Are young women a forgotten generation when it comes to breast cancer? Thousands of young women are diagnosed every year. They often face the most aggressive cancers. One young Canadian women, profiled in Rachel Ray Everyday shared her story. Judit Saunders was 26 years old andworking as a registered nurse at a major children’s hospital…
Read MoreMany Women Could Be Spared Chemotherapy
The largest precision medicine study ever done was presented at a plenary session at the annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology in Chicago. Researchers looked at more than 10,000 women aged 18-75. Researchers were looking at whether the standard of care of chemotherapy and endocrine therapy benefit all women with the…
Read MoreWhat do Dogs and BreastDefense have in Common?
Some biologists think that a target of 99% accuracy for any cancer screen is unattainable. It seems that SignPost is not alone in this pursuit. According to a company called BioScent Dx, dogs are able to smell minute changes in a human bio-markers including hormones, proteins and other organic compounds. This has lead to dogs…
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