Samia al Qadhi, of Breast Cancer Care, was also very positive about the research.
Elizabeth Smith, clinical services manager at Breast Cancer Care, also welcomed the decision.
Among others, Mrs Blair, 58, is a patron of Breast Cancer Care, Refuge, Scope and the Community Foundation for Merseyside.
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'Breast cancer in families' is available to order free from the Breast Cancer Care website or by calling 0808 800 6000 .
Dr Emma Pennery, of the charity Breast Cancer Care, said any new way of improving detection rates for breast cancer would be a significant advance.
Helen Graham, Breast Cancer Care nurse specialist, said women like Rachel needed targeted support and that this was what the Lavender Trust was aiming to do.
Campaigners feared it would have a negative impact on the quality of breast cancer care on the island, but the Royal College of Surgeons supported the move.
Experts at Breast Cancer Care, which has been the leading provider of breast cancer information and support across the UK for 30 years, are alarmed by the findings.
Breast Cancer Care put Rachel in touch with their younger women's forums where she was able to meet others her age and talk about the issues she was facing.
Breast Cancer Care said that out of about 41, 000 women diagnosed with breast cancer each year, around 8, 000 of these are women under the age of 50 and approximately 2, 000 of these are in their 20s and 30s.
Carnahan said she "perhaps" would make an additional commitment to women's issues, including pay equity, child care and breast cancer research.
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An earlier study showed that elderly women would also benefit from surgery and the drug tamoxifen, the gold standard of care for breast cancer, but many were not receiving the treatments because of ageism.
Today, because of health reform, insurance companies now have to cover basic preventative care -- contraception, breast cancer screenings, mammograms -- without any out-of-pocket cost.
The health care activist, who died from breast cancer six years after first being diagnosed with the disease, gained national attention in 2004 as the wife of Democratic Party vice-presidential candidate John Edwards, then a U.S. Senator from North Carolina.
One is a friend (age 32) in hospice care right now due to stage 4 breast cancer.
Julie Silver, an assistant professor at Harvard Medical School and expert in rehabilitation medicine, developed STAR after her own treatment for breast cancer, which she says left her too sick to care for her family or return to work.
The results were shown in the first randomized phase II study comparing trastuzumab-DM1 (T-DM1) to Herceptin (trastuzumab) plus chemotherapy (docetaxel), the current standard of care for first line HER2-positive metastatic breast cancer.
That question has been well to the fore this week with the High Court ruling that Swindon Primary Care Trust's decision not to fund Herceptin for breast cancer sufferer Ann Marie Rogers was not unlawful.
Maybe a woman had had breast cancer, and it was okay as long as she had her employer-based health care.
This month, we stand with the mothers, daughters, sisters, aunts, and friends who have been affected by breast cancer, and we recognize the ongoing efforts of dedicated advocates, researchers, and health care providers who strive each day to defeat this terrible disease.
"That is absolutely the case, " agrees Dr. Ann Partridge, clinical director of the Breast Oncology Center at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, who also does research on improving health care communication.
And we know we're not finished, especially not when we have a health care system in this country that simply is not working for too many people with breast cancer and too many people who are surviving with breast cancer.
The study commissioned by NHS Kidney Care says it causes up to 45, 000 premature deaths each year, more than lung and breast cancer combined.
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