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Computed radiography effective in detecting breast cancer

May 6, 2007 – 4:41 pm

The use of computer-aided detection (CAD) with computed radiography (CR) is effective in the detection of breast cancer, according to a recent study conducted by radiologists at George Washington University Medical Center in Washington, DC and iCAD in Nashua, NH, a press release by EurekAlert says.
“I wanted to undertake this study because we need to […]

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Breast Cancer Rates Dropped Even Before Hormone Results

May 6, 2007 – 4:39 pm

New research by American Cancer Society scientists supports a recent report that links a drop in breast cancer rates between 2002 and 2003 to a simultaneous decline in the use of hormone therapy. But the new work also shows that breast cancer rates were going down even before 2002 — at the same time that […]

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Protein found to spread breast cancer, potential new drug target

April 11, 2007 – 8:01 am

Researchers at the Kimmel Cancer Center at Jefferson have identified a protein that they say is key to helping a quarter of all breast cancers spread. The finding, reported online the week of April 9, 2007 in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, could be a potential target for new drugs aimed […]

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