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U.S. Mammograms decline after Task Force Recommendation
Preventive mammography rates in women in their 40s have dropped nearly 6 percent nationwide since the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) recommended against routine mammograms for women in this age group, a Mayo Clinic analysis shows. That represents a small but significant decrease since the controversial guidelines were released, the researchers say. Their findings were presented at the Academy Health Annual Research Meeting in Orlando, Fla.
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Understanding How Exercise affects Cancer Patients
Exercise generally helps the nation's 12 million cancer survivors, but researchers are still working toward being able to prove, with scientific certainty, that prescriptions for daily yoga or 20 minutes of walking will likely extend a patient's survival. Understanding specifically how exercise benefits subpopulations of cancer patients was among the topics at the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) 2012 annual meeting in Chicago. Several scientists from the James P. Wilmot Cancer Center at the University of Rochester Medical Center were part of the ASCO discussion, including Lisa K. Sprod, Ph.D., a junior faculty member who is being recognized with an ASCO Merit Award.
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Cancer Drugs: Better, Cheaper
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 Cancer drug development is known to be too slow, costly and fraught with failure. Now the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is issuing recommendations for breast cancer trials that would substantially accelerate patient access to new medications while lowering the time and cost of drug development. The new regulatory guidelines are based in part on groundbreaking, national breast cancer research led by UCSF.
The FDA "draft guidance'' is aimed at helping medical researchers gain swifter approval for promising drugs in the early stages of development for breast cancer. The guidance represents the federal agency's "current thinking on this topic,'' according to the draft. Read the article
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New DNA Marker Discovered
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 Researchers and doctors at the North Shore-LIJ Health System and the Feinstein Institute for Medical Research have discovered a potential explanation for why breast cancer is not experienced the same way with African-American and Caucasian patients. Their data was presented at the 2012 American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) annual meeting in Chicago.
Breast cancer is more common in Caucasian women than in African-American women; however, African-American women experience a more aggressive form of breast cancer that occurs almost a decade earlier than Caucasian women. Because of this, African-American women have a lower breast cancer survival rate than Caucasian women. To explore the reasons why, researchers and doctors at the North Shore-LIJ Health System and the Feinstein Institute for Medical Research conducted a study to determine 1) why the expression of a genetic marker embedded in deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA), called microRNA, differs between African-American and Caucasian women, and 2) if variation in microRNAs may explain the observed survival difference between African-American and Caucasian women.
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