The HER2 positive type of tiny breast tumours that apparently look cured after surgical operations are more likely to recur as compared to the bigger ones,  American researchers said in a report  on Friday.

After five years, 23 percent of patients with small tumours one cm (half an inch) or smaller whose cancer was HER2 positive had tumours come back after surgery, Gonzalez-Angula of the MD Anderson Cancer Centre in Houston told the San AntonioBreast Cancer Conference.

Genentech Inc. for women with these types of breast cancer. “Most physicians do not treat these small tumours with Herceptin,

” Dr Ana M. Gonzalez-Angula, who led the study, told reporters.The researchers recommended extra treatment with some outmoded practices like using drugs like Herceptin by

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According to a Dutch study, young women who receive radiation after surgery for breast cancer are more likely to develop a new tumor in the opposite or contralateral breast and this risk is even higher in the women who have a significant family history of breast cancer.

The study will be published online in the Journal of Clinical Oncology current issue. In this study, the researchers examined some fairly recent radiation techniques and some experts have pointed out these techniques have been improved and refined with the passage of time.

Dr. Jay Brooks, who is chairman of hematology/oncology at Ochsner Health System in Baton Rouge, La, says about this study: “Though it’s quite interesting, over the last 25 years radiation techniques have dramatically changed and many patients were treated with much older techniques.” …Click here to read more

A new more accurate way to spot severe forms of bowel cancer has been developed by the stem cell scientists. It allows for a tailored treatment that may improve patients’ chances to survive.

According to British researchers, patients with some severe kind of bowel cancer may be spotted early after testing for a stem cell indicatory protein known as Lamin A.

The researchers suggested that patients with positive Lamin A must be given chemotherapy aside from the operation as it increases their odds to survive. …Click here to read more

Helicobacter pylori that has proved as a cause of stomach ulcers also has link with stomach cancer, a new study suggests.

The researchers investigated the cases of 550 people who had surgery for their stomach cancer. They found that the risk of developing cancer second time decreased twice by using antibiotics that killed Helicobacter pylori.

To find whether killing of the bacterium really stops the development of the cancer, more than 56,000 British people will be under a trial soon.

H.pylori invades the stomach and it is considered the cause of more than 90% of duodenal ulcers and 80% of gastric ulcers.

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