A website for breast cancer patients

For women (or friends and relatives of women with breast cancer),

the Susan B. Komen website (www.komen.org) contains an extraordinary resource: message boards that contain thousands of topics. In October 2007, over 170,000 message posts on over 20,000 topics. A robust search engine facilitates research on topics of interest, which range from the clinical to commiseration. The experiences of such a large group of participants about treatment options, surgical experiences, radiation therapy, chemotherapy and treatment reactions, and reconstruction are useful for both the patient to the professional.
Registration is free and participation can be anonymous. The site is in English; its constituency is global.

30.10.2007

News • Taxane-induced peripheral neuropathy

New tool predicts nerve damage after breast cancer chemotherapy

Researchers have developed a tool that can predict the risk level for side effects in the nervous system of women treated for breast cancer using taxanes. This could help adapt treatment.

News • Breakthrough against metastatic mammacarcinoma

New approach busts chemo resistance of TNBC breast cancer

A team of researchers from Vienna has discovered that dormant breast cancer tumor cells surviving chemotherapy can be targeted through the inhibition of a specific protein.

Article • Five-year EU project to avoid heart damage in oncology patients

Cardiac collaterals in breast cancer therapy

Modern cancer therapies are tough on the tumours, but often, also on the heart of the patients. The “CARDIOCARE” project aims to reduce the cardiac burden of anti-cancer therapies through more…