by JANET ST. JAMES WFAA Posted on November 4, 2011 at 12:27 AM Updated yesterday at 11:58 AM DALLAS – Henda Salmeron is a successful real estate agent, and an educated woman who has always followed doctor’s orders for regular mammograms. So when the 45-year-old mother of two was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2009…
June 29, 2011, 2:56 PM F.D.A. Panel Rejects Use of Avastin for Breast Cancer By ANDREW POLLACK Updated: An advisory committee to the Food and Drug Administration voted unanimously on Wednesday that the approval of Avastin as a treatment for breast cancer should be revoked, despite a two-day appeal hearing by Genentech, the drug’s manufacturer.…
By JENNIFER CORBETT DOOREN A woman’s breast milk holds the potential to assess her risk of developing breast cancer, according to preliminary research presented Monday. In her research, Kathleen Arcaro, an associate professor of environmental toxicology at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, collected milk samples from both breasts of about 250 nursing women who had…