The incidence of breast cancer in parts of Asia is rising steeply and catching up with rates in the western world, Dr Louis Chow, Medical Director of the Comprehensive Centre for Breast Diseases, UNIMED Institute, Hong Kong told oncologists attending the recent 1st Asian Breast Cancer Conference in New Delhi, India, held February 9th and10th. Read the rest of this entry »

Oncologists at Boston’s Dana-Farber Cancer Institute have found that women with the most common type of non-invasive breast cancer often overestimate the risk that the cancer will spread, and the risk that they will have a recurrence or deadly outcome. Read the rest of this entry »

Breast cancer among Chinese women who have been in the U.S. for more than 10 years is 80% higher than their newly arrived peers. Read the rest of this entry »

Researchers from several US medical centers have reported that the risk of breast cancer among BRCA1/2 carriers varies across families. The details of this study appeared in the January 9, 2008 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association.

Inherited mutations in two genes—BRCA1 and BRCA2—have been found to greatly increase the lifetime risk of developing breast and ovarian cancer. Mutations in these genes can be passed down through either the mother’s or the father’s side of the family.

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The rise of the cancer in Europe and America – cases have jumped 80 per cent in the UK since the 1970s – is being mirrored across the world. And scientists say increasing prosperity and the “Westernisation” of traditional lifestyles is to blame.

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-wellbeing/health-news/global-rise-in-breast-cancer-due-to-western-lifestyles-773162.html