This work is funded by Cancer Research UK, which is also investigating the use of tamoxifen to prevent breast cancer in high-risk women.
Today Norton's "dose-dense" regimen is common practice for certain breast cancer patients at high risk of relapse after surgery.
Studies show that it's about 90% effective in preventing breast cancer in moderate and high-risk women.
In addition, younger women found to be at high risk of breast cancer, either through family history or because they carry the BRCA 1 or 2 gene, would receive annual scans to check for signs of the disease.
It helps 20% of breast cancer patients whose tumors have high levels of a gene called HER2.
The drug aims at the 25% of breast cancer patients whose tumors express high levels of a protein called HER2.
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Doctors have told her she is at very high risk of getting breast cancer at some point in the future, so she is having them removed to protect her from the disease.
Ms Morgan said that following the identification of two key genes in the last decade (BRCA1 and BRCA2) genetic testing could now pinpoint whether a woman may be at high risk of developing breast cancer.
About one in every 100 women over the age of 30 falls into the high-risk category for breast cancer that Emma was in.
At present, based on animal models where human breast cancer tumors are grown in animals, this test detects breast cancers with 100% specificity, high sensitivity, and good localization.
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In 1993, after four of her friends were diagnosed with breast cancer, Dr. Biden started the Biden Breast Health Initiative in Delaware, which in the past 18 years has educated more than 10, 000 high school girls about the importance of early detection of breast cancer.
First, the discovery of rare, high penetrance germ-line mutations of BRCA1 and BRCA2 identified a small subset of women with a very high life-time risk of breast and ovarian cancer.
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"We did find that women who lived in the South and areas of high solar radiation have reduced risk of breast cancer, " said John, who is based at the Northern California Cancer Center in Union City, California.
"These Avastin breast cancer results are disappointing, but this was a high-risk study to begin with, " says Li.
Given intravenously, Kadcyla courses through the body, looking for breast-cancer cells with a distinguishing feature: a high number of a particular protein, called HER2, on their surface.
The organisation which represents the majority of UK private breast implant clinics has insisted the rupture rate is not abnormally high.
Read said Pfizer's mid- to late-stage drug pipeline "continues to strengthen with key potential opportunities, " including drugs for advanced breast cancer and three other types of cancer, one for high cholesterol and a meningococcal B vaccine for adolescents and young adults.
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The researchers, from Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, found that when two proteins, called AIB1 and HER-2, are present in high levels in the cells of women who have had breast cancer, their tumours are resistant to the cancer-fighting effects of tamoxifen.
He said there were also "major areas of challenge" including disappointing breast feeding rates, large variations in preventable tooth decay in children, high death rates from lung diseases and a large amount of preventable cancers and cardiovascular disease.
In the 1980s researchers found high levels of EGF receptors in human tumors of the brain, lung, breast, bladder and pancreas.
Ron Martin said after getting breast cancer, Debbie Martin had her ovaries removed preventively because she was also at very high genetic risk for ovarian cancer, which has killed several women in her family.
The number of breast augmentations performed in the U.S. dropped to 32, 000 by 1992 from a high of at least 120, 000 two years before, according to the American Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons.
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.
More than a dozen cancers -- from breast and prostate cancer to pancreatic and colon cancer -- have been linked to America's epidemic of high caloric intake and lack of physical activity.
By combining the gene test for BRCA1 and BRCA2 with this extra genetic information, women who have a high number of the newly identified markers could find they have a nearly 100% risk of getting breast cancer.
She and a dozen employees put their heads together and came up with a tidy solution: a series of high-profile events marking her firms 25th anniversary -- but also calling attention to the problem of breast cancer.
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