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American Family Physician
October 1, 2000 |
Genetic Testing for Breast Cancer Risk: What Does It Mean to Me? What causes breast cancer?... What genes can cause breast cancer to be inherited?... What clues in my family history might show I've inherited a risk of breast cancer?... Does everyone who has family members with breast cancer have these mutated genes?... What should I do?...   |
Salon.com
August 11, 2000
Jackie Stevens |
Does capitalism make you sick? Gene studies are sexy and well funded, but they can buttress racial thinking and distract the public from the socioeconomic roots of disease. |
Salon.com
May 25, 1999
Arthur Allen |
Is it in the genes? Is it in the genes?: Studies suggest human behavior isn't as predetermined as some thought. |
BusinessWeek
October 17, 2005
Catherine Arnst |
Breast-Cancer Screening: How to Choose Women have varying risk factors for breast cancer and face more test options. Here are some key considerations for making a suitable choice. |
Scientific American
November 2007
Charles Choi |
The Genetics of Politics A study finds that biology strongly governs voter turnout. |
Salon.com
November 10, 2000
Laurie Tarkan |
The business of breast cancer Big medicine is making big bucks on the disease, but we're still far from a cure... |
AskMen.com
Jacob Franek |
Prostate Cancer Overview Everything you wanted to know and more about prostate cancer in this three-part prostate cancer guide. |
Salon.com
May 1, 2000
Arthur Allen |
Listening to DNA The genome project is getting the buzz. But the real breakthroughs may come from labs out of the limelight, like Gene Logic. |
Wired
August 2003
Jennifer Kahn |
The End of Cancer (As we Know it) Diagnosis. Chemotherapy. Radiation. Slow painful death. No more. A new era of cancer treatment is dawning. Meet three scientists who are using the revelations of the Human Genome Project to reshape medicine. |
BusinessWeek
May 23, 2005
Catherine Arnst |
If It Works for Breast Cancer... Studies are under way to see if promising strategies used against breast cancer can be used to fight other killers, such as lung, colon, and prostate cancer. |
Salon.com
June 20, 2000
Naomi Mendelsohn |
Choosing the knife Healthy women at high risk for breast cancer are choosing to have both breasts removed, even while doctors are advocating less invasive treatments for those who are already sick |
Science News
July 21, 2007
Janet Raloff |
Sour Genes, Yes -- Salty Genes, No A study in twins finds that genes may be responsible for a high or low threshold to the detection of sour tastes, but not of salty ones. |
ifeminists
December 1, 2004
Wendy McElroy |
Infidelity Gene: Sensational, but Science? No one knows how genes may interact. It seems premature for anyone to talk about an "infidelity gene" let alone to assign precise percentages to its impact on behavior. |
Nutra Solutions
July 1, 2005 |
Soy Claims Count Regular consumption of soy protein-containing foods and beverages may reduce the risk of breast cancer in women by as much as 22%, reports a study published in The International Journal of Cancer Prevention. |
AskMen.com
August 19, 2001
Joshua Levine |
The Ins & Outs Of Heredity If you've ever worried that you might inherit something undesirable from your parents, this is your article... |
Managed Care
March 2007
Martin Sipkoff |
Managing Cancer Treatment Begins Before Diagnosis Health plans are increasingly involved in promoting the lifestyle changes that help their members avoid cancer, and are increasingly involved in clinical trials if prevention fails. |
The Motley Fool
August 19, 2004
Charly Travers |
Myriad's Making Hope Possible This small biotech provides screens that can help catch cancer. Even with solid growth of product revenue, losses could continue to increase as Myriad moves more drugs into clinical development while it transitions into a drug developer. |
Chemistry World
July 16, 2007
Karen Harries-Rees |
Tasting Sour Flavours is Genetic Researchers have found that genes play a central role in the recognition of sour tastes but not in the recognition of saltiness. The findings could help identify the taste receptor that detects sourness in food. |
Science News
September 27, 2008
Nathan Seppa |
Hyping Health Risks: Environmental Hazards In Daily Life And The Science Of Epidemiology by Geoffrey Kabat Health scares come and go, but they often have a tenuous scientific basis. Kabat, a cancer epidemiologist, systematically rips through cancer alerts that overrode scientific rigor in recent decades. |
| AskMen.com |
Cholesterol & The Prostate A new study suggests that men may be able to lower their risk of getting the most aggressive form of prostate cancer by keeping their cholesterol in a healthy range. |
HHMI Bulletin
Nov 2010 |
Fusion genes that drive solid tumors are a new target for cancer therapies The success of Gleevec and related drugs has inspired researchers to step up their hunt for the molecular defects underlying other cancers. |
AskMen.com
September 30, 2000
Joshua Levine |
Male Breast Cancer Breast cancer is traditionally thought of as a female-related problem. Men, however, are as susceptible to the disease as women are. In many ways, the disease appears similarly in both sexes... |
Bio-IT World
October 2006
Kevin Davies |
Cracking the Cancer Genome Regardless of which technologies win out, or which centers win the lucrative sequencing contracts, the Cancer Genome Atlas has a sublime medical and scientific importance, underscored by the latest findings from Hopkins. |
Bio-IT World
November 19, 2004
Kevin Davies |
King for a Year Mary-Claire King discusses breast cancer research, complex traits, and human rights. |
AskMen.com
Dustin Driver |
8 Cancer Myths The following myths about cancer have been debunked by doctors and scientists the world over. So do yourself and your community a favor: read the facts and spread the word. |
Scientific American
May 2009
Christine Soares |
Cancer Clues from Embryonic Development Rethinking cancer by seeing tumors as a cellular pregnancy. |
ifeminists
October 15, 2002
Sacks & Thompson |
When Men's Health Doesn't Count Congress is sending a message to American men: men's health doesn't count. |
ifeminists
October 29, 2002
Rondi Adamson |
Re-Evaluating the Risk of Breast Cancer As breast cancer became a poster disease for feminism in the 1980s, the attention it began to receive took on unreasonable proportions. In short, the intensity of funding, publicity and research around breast cancer is not based on need. It is based on politics. |
Science News
May 13, 2000 |
Cancer Net CancerNet is a huge compendium of information on cancer assembled by the National Cancer Institute.... |
Salon.com
October 12, 1999
Damien Cave |
Male mastectomy Not many men get breast cancer, but too few are aware of the risk. |
BusinessWeek
July 3, 2006
Catherine Arnst |
A Ton Of Prevention The pros and cons of two drugs that may halve your risk of breast cancer. |
BusinessWeek
September 5, 2005
Michael Arndt |
Fine-Tuning the Attack on Breast Cancer Genentech's Herceptin, the first drug approved for a specific group, helps patients who are genetically susceptible to a virulent form of the disease. |
BusinessWeek
May 12, 2011
Robert Langreth |
Big Pharma Bets on a Novel Cancer Cure Research in epigenetics is booming. The payoff could be in the billions. |
Popular Mechanics
October 2000 |
Science: Greatest Unsolved Mysteries Is there a Fountain of Youth? Will we cure cancer? Can we achieve immortality? Can we create artificial life? Where is the soul? Is the speed of light the ultimate speed limit? Is there other intelligent life in the universe? Can we travel through time? |
American Family Physician
May 15, 2005 |
Early Prostate Cancer: What You Should Know A patient hand-out on the disease, who is at risk, diagnosis and treatment options. |
AskMen.com
Jacob Franek |
New Cancer Therapies As cancer research explodes, the availability of new and innovative interventions is expanding almost daily. |
Fast Company
John Paul Titlow |
It's Not Just For Your Brain: Meditating Can Actually Change Your DNA In a recent study, the use of mindfulness meditation was shown to have an impact on certain types of DNA in breast cancer patients. |
Science News
May 19, 2007 |
Science Safari: Cancer Risk -- Understanding the Puzzle This new Web site from the National Cancer Institute cuts through the hype to help you understand the plain and simple truth about cancer risk. |
BusinessWeek
October 6, 2003
Gene G. Marcial |
Dendreon: New Weapons against Tumors What's so hot about Dendreon, which leaped from 3 last year to 9.25 on Sept. 24? The little-known biotech develops immunologically based cancer remedies, and its lead product, Provenge, is aimed at prostate cancer. |
American Family Physician
February 15, 2005
Sunga et al. |
Care of Cancer Survivors Cancer survivors are at increased risk for recurrence of their original malignancy. Surveillance following curative cancer treatment generally includes interval history and physical examinations every six months for five years. |
AskMen.com
Harold Russell |
The Truth About Lung Cancer Read this article to find out about the causes, symptoms, treatments, and preventive measures of lung cancer. |
BusinessWeek
May 9, 2005
Catherine Arnst |
Genentech's Lessons For Big Pharma The biotech company focuses on science -- not marketing, acquisitions, or patents. |
The Motley Fool
April 12, 2005
Brian Gorman |
Genentech's Cancer Quest The company's achievements in lung cancer further strengthen its reputation as a cancer fighter. Would-be investors are best served by waiting patiently. |
American Family Physician
August 1, 2000
Lecia M. Apantaku |
Breast Cancer Diagnosis and Screening Statistics on breast cancer risk, symptoms and recommended tests. |
Bio-IT World
April 2006
Kevin Davies |
Harvard Opens Breast Cancer Protein Library In a landmark for functional proteomics, researchers at Harvard Medical School have unveiled a publicly available library of proteins that are active in breast cancer tissue. The resource could help speed drug discovery efforts against the disease. |
Salon.com
April 28, 2000
Dawn MacKeen |
A disease fueled by testosterone When a politician announces he has prostate cancer, what does it mean? |
Scientific American
April 2005
JR Minkel |
Leafy Letdown Recent studies indicate that eating vegetables seems to do little in warding off cancer. Breast cancer is included in this finding. |
HHMI Bulletin
May 2012
Sarah C. P. Williams |
Opening the Floodgates Researchers are using exome sequencing -- zeroing in on the genes that encode proteins -- to explore the biology of certain diseases. |
Science News
April 22, 2006 |
From the April 18, 1936, issue Night-illuminated museum offers "spooky" sights... Importance of heredity as cause of cancer stressed... |
Bio-IT World
September 11, 2003
Kevin Davies |
Chipping Away at Cancer In Vivo, In Situ Two studies probe new applications of DNA microarrays, revealing new insights into the pathogenesis and pharmacogenomics of cancer. |
