- Dartmouth-Hitchcock, BioLucent Sign Agreement to Provide MammoPad® Breast Cushion
BioLucent, Inc., maker of the MammoPad® breast cushion, today announced a new agreement to provide MammoPad to Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center. DHMC is a nationally ranked academic medical center serving northern New England. - Health Dialog Shared Decision-Making® Videos Honored at 54th Annual Chris Awards
Health Dialog Services Corporation today announced that two of its Shared Decision-Making® videos were honored at the 54th Annual Chris Awards, held on Saturday, November 11, 2006 at the Columbus College of Art & Design in Ohio. “Speak Up: Getting the Healthcare That’s Right For You” and “Living with Metastatic Breast Cancer: Making the Journey Your Own” both received awards. The two Health Dialog videos were selected from more than 400 entries. - Breast Cancer Study Update Affirms Success of Intraoperative Electron-Beam Radiation Therapy (IOERT)
Results of a long-term clinical study conducted in Salzburg, Austria, bolsters support for a promising change in radiation therapy for breast cancer patients. According to a report from Breast Center Salzburg published in the International Journal of Cancer, radiation administered during surgery, directly at the site of the excised tumor, greatly reduces the incidence of ipsilateral (same side) breast tumor recurrence. - ClearForest Text Analytics Accelerates Breast Cancer Research Initiatives at Massachusetts General
ClearForest announces today a partnership with Massachusetts General Hospital's Avon Foundation Comprehensive Breast Evaluation Center to utilize the power of text analytics to accelerate and improve breast cancer research initiatives. - Rose Breast Center Receives Certification as a Softer Mammogram ProviderSM
BioLucent, Inc., maker of the MammoPad® breast cushion, today announced Rose Breast Center (Denver, Co.) has been certified as a Softer Mammogram Provider. As one of the largest healthcare providers in the region, Rose Breast Center will now offer a softer, more comfortable mammogram to the more than 18,000 women who receive mammograms at the center each year. - Aurora Imaging Technology Announces SpiralRODEO™: A Revolution in Breast MRI
Breast MRI technology leader Aurora Imaging Technology, Inc. announces a major milestone in breast MR Imaging – SpiralRODEO™. Now, you no longer have to choose between higher image quality or shorter scan time -- SpiralRODEO gives you both! - National Beverage and LaCroix Join the Fight Against Breast Cancer
October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month and the LaCroix brand of sparkling and spring waters by National Beverage Corp. (AMEX:FIZ) is proud to be the official water sponsor of the Susan G. Komen Foundation Breast Cancer ‘3-Day Walk’ for 2006.
The ‘3-Day Walk’ program consists of 60-mile walks held in twelve different cities throughout the country. At each event, an attractive tent sporting LaCroix signage offers a resting spot, foot massages and refreshing LaCroix water to walkers. - Optimata Completes Successful Breast Cancer Clinical Study:70% Prediction Accuracy Offers New Hope
Optimata Ltd. announced today the successful results of a clinical study for the prediction of individualized patient response to chemotherapy drugs. The study used Optimata's computerized technology known as the Virtual Cancer Patient Engine (VCP).
The results show that the prediction accuracy of the VCP was 70 percent. This is substantially higher than the current prediction accuracy of oncologists which is estimated to be 25-30 percent. - Safeway Kicks Off Fifth Annual Breast Cancer Fundraising Campaign
Safeway Inc. (NYSE:SWY) today launched its 2006 Breast Cancer Awareness Campaign with a goal of raising $6 million in October for a range of breast cancer research and treatment programs in its operating areas. In the last four years, Safeway and The Safeway Foundation have raised nearly $16 million for breast cancer charities. - Digital and Film Medical Imaging Technologies Contribute to Decline in Breast Cancer Deaths
This year more than 250,000 U.S. women will be diagnosed with breast cancer, and this deadly disease will claim the lives of more than 40,000 friends, neighbors, mothers and daughters. - Fujifilm Launches Images of Health: Mammograms for a Million Moms Campaign in Collaboration
Every two minutes a woman in the U.S. is diagnosed with breast cancer, yet more than half of women over the age of 40 do not know how critical breast cancer screening is or do not have the means to get a mammogram regularly. In response, Fujifilm, in collaboration with The National Breast Cancer Foundation (NBCF), today launched a national public education campaign called Images of Health: Mammograms for a Million Moms. - Cubis Financial Launches CureBreastCancer.org Prepaid MasterCard® Gift Card
Cubis Financial, Ltd. announced today that Dr. Ernie Bodai and Cure Breast Cancer, Inc. are utilizing the company’s services to provide consumers with an innovative new way to fund the “fight for a cure”—the CureBreastCancer.org Prepaid MasterCard® Gift Card. - Recycle for Breast Cancer Expands Recycling Program in Time for Breast Cancer Awareness Month
October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month and Recycle For Breast Cancer (RFBC) is encouraging everyone to help in the fight against breast cancer by participating in RFBC’s recycling program. - Chevron Unveils a ‘Promise’ to Help in the Fight against Breast Cancer
In honor of National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, Chevron Global Marketing today introduced its newest addition to The Chevron Cars® family, Promise, the sixth special edition Chevron Car created to raise awareness and funds for breast cancer research. All net proceeds of the sale of Promise are donated to the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation. - In Support of Breast Cancer, Mattel Launches Pink Ribbon™ Barbie® Doll
Joining the crusade against breast cancer, Mattel (NYSE:MAT) has partnered with the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation to create the Pink Ribbon™ Barbie® doll. The Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation will receive a minimum of $100,000 from Mattel to support the fight against breast cancer. The Pink Ribbon™ Barbie® doll celebrates the incredible strength, beauty and resilience of women. - SHADES OF PINK…PEARL: AmericanPearl.com Supports the Young Survival Coalition for Breast Cancer
AmericanPearl.com, one of the nation’s oldest online jewelry retailers and the premium source for pearls, today announced its partnership with the Young Survival Coalition® (YSC) in support of Breast Cancer Awareness month this October. YSC is the only international, non-profit network of breast cancer survivors and supporters dedicated to the concerns and issues that are unique to young women and breast cancer patients. - CORRECTING and REPLACING Breast Cancer Surgeon and Survivor Dedicated to Education and Early
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BREAST CANCER SURGEON AND SURVIVOR DEDICATED TO EDUCATION AND EARLY DETECTION DURING OCTOBER BREAST CANCER AWARENESS MONTH - Abraxis BioScience Files Marketing Application with the European Medicines Agency for ABRAXANE
Abraxis BioScience, Inc. (NASDAQ:ABBI), an integrated, global biopharmaceutical company, today announced that the European Medicines Agency (EMEA) has accepted for review the company’s application for ABRAXANE® for Injectable Suspension (paclitaxel protein-bound particles for injectable suspension) (albumin-bound) for the treatment of breast cancer. The typical EMEA review period for this centralized procedure is approximately 12 months. - Save A Local Goddess During October
Five Rivers Winery will join with distributor partners in more than a dozen states and donate $1 for every bottle sold during October to the National Breast Cancer Foundation, supporting local cancer patients and cancer survivors during National Breast Cancer Awareness month. The donation is guaranteed to be at least $30,000 on a national basis. - W Hotels Wraps Comfort and Hope around Women with Breast Cancer with ''Robes to Recovery''
Banding Together Nearly 30 Designers, including Diane von Furstenberg, Michael Kors and Carolina Herrera, W Redefines its Signature Robe as the Ultimate Symbol of Encouragement and Recovery to Benefit Fashion Targets Breast Cancer - GNI Ltd. and the University of Auckland's UniServices Ltd. Announce Collaboration
GNI Ltd., an international biopharmaceutical company and leader in the field of integrated systems pharmacology, and Auckland UniServices Limited, New Zealand's University of Auckland's company for commercialization of technology developed at the University, announced today the establishment of a pioneering research collaboration to produce gene regulatory networks for melanoma and breast cancer.
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