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The leader in performance apparel and footwear - Under Armour- has launched its 5th annual “Power in Pink” campaign.
These, I got from Allison Blass (New Media Coordinator, MWW Group):
As part of the “Power in Pink” campaign, Under Armour is encouraging survivors and women currently living with breast cancer to share their inspirational stories of […]
It just sucks when I cannot get online without going out of the house. But that’s exactly what happened to me in the last 3 days.
Suddenly, my crappy PC is the most beautiful work station on the face of the earth! Ha ha ha. ;-)
Anyways, I just wanna list those important stuff that I missed […]
How was your weekend people? Mine was just terrible, I was locked up inside the house. It has been raining non-stop the last week, including this weekend. A
t least on that front, my weekend just sucked. Otherwise, everything is good - great - in fact!
Meanwhile, I received the following email from Dianna McPhail (Designer […]
A great new woman’s online community called Capessa has a feature video under its Health and Fitness section.
The feature video is entitled How I Used My Passion for Gardening to Fight Breast Cancer.
“My parents had been married for 62 years when she was diagnosed with breast cancer.”
My father had Alzheimer’s. My mother was his caretaker, […]
Approved by the FDA, a genetic test that can help in the assessment of risk of tumor recurrence and long-term survival for patients with relatively high-risk breast cancer - TOP2A FISH pharmDx - is the first approved device to test for the TOP2A (topoisomerase 2 alpha) gene in cancer patients.
The TOP2A gene plays a role […]
The quantity and identity of specific protein markers in the human saliva can be used as an early, non-invasive diagnostic test for breast cancer that can even be conducted by dentists.
Such were the findings of a new study by researchers at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston.
The study describes how the onset […]
36-year-old Canadian rocker Bif Naked admitted yesterday in the syndicated radio program “The Strombo Show” that she has been diagnosed with breast cancer.
Recently married to Vancouver sports columnist Ian Walker, the singer (real name: Beth Torbert) stated in the said show:
“I have never been one to give up when an obstacle is placed in front […]
Here’s another celebrity that is in the news this week but sort of in a delicate way because of cancer.
Who can forget former Olympic gold medalist, figure skater Dorothy Hamill? Even if the rest of the world doesn’t know her, America knows her very well.
She is such a public figure who one (or two?) […]
Speaking of breast cancer…
Previously popular treatments – i.e. big-dose chemotherapy – apparently are of no help against breast cancer.
Such were the findings recently reported by a group of Houston researchers.
A grueling and controversial breast cancer treatment that was popular in the late 1980s and the 1990s does not extend the lives of patients in advanced […]
Previously, the possibility of lung cancer detection by blood test has been reported.
Now, a blood test may also be able to detect breast cancer in its earliest stages.
Such diagnostic test – now being introduced in the UK - works by detecting gene expression patterns in blood samples not taken from the breast.
Developed by Norwegian life […]
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