http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. A new study has found that women who take aspirin have a reduced risk of developing melanoma—and that the longer they take it, the lower the risk. The findings suggest that aspirin's anti-inflammatory effects may help protect against this type of skin cancer. The study is published early online in CANCER, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Cancer Society. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-aspirin-melanoma.html Cancer Mon, 11 Mar 2013 00:00:01 EST news282138673 (Medical Xpress)—The seasonal variation of sunlight in Ireland means newborns from Caucasian women who had more sunlight months during their pregnancy (April – Sep) are more likely to have longer thighbones, according to new research. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-sunlight-months-pregnancy-newborns-longer.html Health Tue, 05 Mar 2013 08:54:02 EST news281696029 African-American women battling vitamin D deficiencies need the same dose as Caucasian women to treat the condition, according to a recent study accepted for publication in The Endocrine Society's Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism (JCEM). http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-african-american-caucasian-women-identical-vitamin.html Health Tue, 12 Feb 2013 01:50:03 EST news279855411 A Wayne State University researcher has identified characteristics in benign breast disease associated with future cancer risk in African-American women. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-cancer-african-american-women-benign-breast.html Cancer Mon, 11 Feb 2013 16:10:01 EST news279819694 African American women with early stage, invasive breast cancer were 12 percent less likely than Caucasian women with the same diagnosis to receive a minimally invasive technique, axillary sentinel lymph node (SLN) biopsy, years after the procedure had become the standard of surgical practice, according to research from The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-african-american-women-breast-cancer.html Cancer Wed, 05 Dec 2012 14:13:53 EST news273939221 (Medical Xpress)—Scientists at The University of Nottingham have identified a protein which could help predict survival outcomes for women with the most aggressive forms of breast cancer. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-thousands-women-aggressive-breast-cancer.html Cancer Fri, 07 Sep 2012 06:44:56 EST news266219086 Researchers and doctors at the North Shore-LIJ Health System and the Feinstein Institute for Medical Research have discovered a potential explanation for why breast cancer is not experienced the same way with African American and Caucasian patients. This data will be presented at the 2012 American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting to be held from Friday through Tuesday (June 1-5) in Chicago, IL. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-06-dna-marker-differences-breast-cancer.html Cancer Sat, 02 Jun 2012 13:07:08 EST news257861219 If racial and ethnic disparities in breast cancer exist, they are not due to differences in the use of imaging to assess the extent of tumors before surgery, according to new findings that will be presented by Fox Chase Cancer Center researchers at the 2012 Annual Meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology on Monday, June 4. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-disparities-imaging-breast-cancer-surgery.html Cancer Thu, 17 May 2012 09:46:35 EST news256466782