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Teenager Unlocks Potential Pathways for Breast Cancer Treatments, Wins Intel Science Talent SearchTeenager Unlocks Potential Pathways for Breast Cancer Treatments, Wins Intel Science Talent Search

Teenager Unlocks Potential Pathways for Breast Cancer Treatments, Wins Intel Science Talent Search Nithin Tumma of Fort Gratiot, Mich. Wins $100,000 Award from the Intel Foundation

WASHINGTON, Mar 13, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) — –NEWS HIGHLIGHTS

–Nithin Tumma, whose research could lead to less toxic and more effective breast cancer treatments, received the top [...]

Vaccine for breast cancer ‘in 3 years’Vaccine for breast cancer ‘in 3 years’

Vaccine for breast cancer ‘in 3 years’

Published: 13 Dec 2011

A BREAST cancer vaccine could be ready in THREE YEARS after “exciting” trial results.

A jab that trains immune systems to destroy tumours worked in 90 PER CENT of cases in lab tests.

It forces antibodies to zoom in on the coating that surrounds cancers and [...]

Inflammatory Marker May Predict Breast Ca Outcomes

Published: June 03, 2011

Women who have high levels of C-reactive protein (CRP) at the time of breast cancer diagnosis may have worse outcomes, researchers say.

Those with the greatest concentrations of the inflammatory marker had significantly reduced overall and disease-free survival and a higher risk of death from breast cancer than did those with [...]

FDA warns: Thermogram is no mammogram

Published: June 3, 2011 Updated: 9:33 a.m.

The controversy over mammography’s effectiveness at finding breast cancer, and whether women under 50 should even get them regularly, has opened the door to alternative detection methods.

One trendy innovation is thermography, which uses infrared imaging to display temperature changes in the body, depending on blood flow. Here’s an e-mail I [...]