Breakthrough's comment on the news a baby has been born free of a breast cancer gene A woman has given birth to the first British child genetically designed to be free of the breast cancer gene, BRCA1. A team of doctors screened her embryos and selected those free from the gene. The couple, who wish to remain anonymous, wanted to eliminate the cancer gene from their family line.

Lapatinib Reduces Mammary Tumor Development in Mouse Model of Breast Cancer Lapatinib delayed tumor development in a mouse model of hormone receptor-negative breast cancer and reduced the number of tumors per animal compared with mice treated only with vehicle (an inert solution lacking lapatinib).

Prophylactic salpingo-oophorectomy - removal of the ovaries and fallopian tubes - reduces the relative risk of breast cancer by approximately 50 percent and the risk of ovarian and fallopian tube cancer by approximately 80 percent in women who carry a mutation in the BRCA1 or BRCA2 gene, researchers report in the January 13 online issue of the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.

Scientists at FDA have requested that Congress and President-elect Obama investigate their allegations that an FDA official approved the sale of a breast cancer imaging device over the objections of the front-line scientists after receiving a phone call from a Connecticut congressman, according to the New York Times.

Some FDA scientists have criticized the agency's approval process for medical devices, saying that many of the products receive approval without undergoing significant scientific testing, according to internal agency documents, the New York Times reports.

Information obtained from a new application of photoacoustic tomography (PAT) is worth its weight in gold to breast cancer patients. For the first time, Lihong Wang, Ph.D., Gene K. Beare Distinguished Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering, with a joint appointment in Radiology, and Younan Xia, Ph.D., James M. McKelvey Professor in Biomedical Engineering, with a joint appointment in chemistry in Arts & Sciences, both at Washington University in St.

Olivia Newton-John Visits Addenbrooke's To Support Breast Cancer Appeal Grease star and cancer campaigner Olivia Newton-John is returning to her Cambridge roots on Wednesday 14 January when she visits Addenbrooke's Hospital to find out about the latest research into breast cancer.

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Dr Sarah Cant, Policy Manager at Breakthrough Breast Cancer, says; "The decision to screen embryos to see whether they have a faulty breast cancer gene is a complex and very personal issue. Women with a family history of breast cancer tell us that what might be right for one person may not be right for another. It's important for anyone affected to have appropriate information and support so they can make the right choice for them.

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Higher-than-normal levels of insulin place postmenopausal women at increased risk of breast cancer, researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University report. Their findings, published in the January 7 issue of the Journal of the National Cancer Institute, suggest that interventions that target insulin and its signaling pathways may decrease breast cancer risk in these women. Breast cancer is the most common cancer among women in the United States.

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