http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. Decoding the DNA of patients with advanced breast cancer has allowed scientists to identify distinct cancer "signatures" that could help predict which women are most likely to benefit from estrogen-lowering therapy, while sparing others from unnecessary treatment. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-06-scientists-decode-dna-breast-tumor.html Genetics Sun, 10 Jun 2012 13:00:06 EST news258548280 Preoperative treatment with aromatase inhibitors increases the likelihood that postmenopausal women with estrogen receptor-positive breast cancer will be able to have breast-conserving surgery rather than a mastectomy, according to the results of a national clinical trial presented today at the Society of Surgical Oncology annual meeting in Orlando, Fla. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-preoperative-estrogen-blocking-therapy-preempt-mastectomy.html Cancer Fri, 23 Mar 2012 09:22:17 EST news251713260 Women with a healthy body weight before and after diagnosis of breast cancer are more likely to survive the disease long term, a new study finds. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-06-obesity-breast-cancer-survivors-dying.html Cancer Sat, 04 Jun 2011 14:50:01 EST news226414491 Cancer researchers at the Kimmel Cancer Center at Jefferson and an international team of collaborators have discovered a biomarker in breast cancer that may help identify which women will respond to anti-estrogen therapy. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-05-marker-breast-cancer-patients-tamoxifen.html Cancer Wed, 18 May 2011 10:12:32 EST news224932338 In the first large trial of its kind in the United States, researchers have shown that estrogen-lowering drugs can shrink tumors and reduce mastectomy rates for patients with stage 2 or 3 breast cancer. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-05-estrogen-lowering-drugs-mastectomy-breast-cancer.html Cancer Mon, 09 May 2011 16:30:49 EST news224177415