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June 27th

• Technology Review: New Drug Kills Cancer with Few Side Effects
• Experimental Pill Fights Inherited Cancer: For the second time this month, researchers report success using a novel type of anti-cancer pill to curb the growth of inherited tumors that often defy standard treatment.

June 26th

• New cancer drug 'shows promise': Olaparib was given to 19 patients with inherited forms of advanced breast, ovarian and prostate cancers caused by mutations of the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes.
• Technology Review: New Drug Kills Cancer with Few Side Effects

June 25th

• PARP Inhibitors,Bre ast Cancer, Years of Research Ahead?: PARP Inhibitors show great Breast Cancer treatment results, learn more here.

June 20th

• In the Family
• Family Health History - Welcome

June 18th

• UJC petition supports breast cancer bill | JTA - Jewish & Israel News: United Jewish Communities has kicked off an online petition drive to back legislation increasing breast cancer education and awareness.

June 6th

• New breast cancer drug class stars at ASCO - FierceBiotech: In one trial, Sanofi Aventis reported that BSI-201 in combination with chemotherapy extended average survival times by three and a half months, to 9.2 months. That study involved 116 women whose triple-negativ e breast cancer had metastasized. And in a non-randomized study involving 52 women with BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutations, AstraZeneca� 39;s olaparib spurred tumor shrinkage that reached up to 41 percent.

June 2nd

• New Drug May Treat Triple-Negativ e Breast Cancer: An experimental class of drugs may have potential for the treatment of two types of breast cancer that are notoriously difficult to treat.

May 22nd

• INTELLECTUAL "PROPERTY": How human genes become patented - 20% of all human genes now patented: I've been against this since the 1980s. It's sickening that people will die of breast cancer because they can't afford to pay royalties on a diagnoses method that isn't priced at a free market value because they've patented the testing of certain genes. Our genetics belong to all of us. Life should not be patentable. Yet another failing of intellectual "property " -- the idea that if you have an idea first, or observe a gene first -- that you "own" ; it. What self-serving capitalistic b.s. It holds us all back. People die so that someone else can get rich. Originally from CNN: http://www.cnn .com/2009/HEAL TH/05/13/genes .patent.myriad /
• Current progress in the BRCA1 project: The 185delAG mutation is documented to be the most prevalent type of BRCA1 mutation

May 19th

• Who owns your genes?

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