WASHINGTON - Remember peeking through a View-Master? Scientists are using the same concept behind the classic kids' toy to try to see mammograms in 3-D.

The goal: A better way to check for breast cancer in women with breasts too dense for today's mammograms to give a clear picture.

Radiologists donning 3-D glasses isn't the only potential aid. The Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., is testing a new kind of breast camera that might challenge the images of those far pricer MRI exams now reserved for the most high-risk women, but at a fraction of the price.

THURSDAY, June 26 (HealthDay News) -- Researchers have devised a new breast-imaging technology that appears to be as accurate as MRI scans but several times cheaper.

The technique, called molecular breast imaging (MBI), is still in the early stages of development, the scientists added.

THURSDAY, June 26 (HealthDay News) -- Women with metastatic breast cancer who developed an immune response to an investigational vaccine lived twice as long as those who didn't have an immune response, new research shows.

"If you were an immune responder, you had double the survival of a non-responder," said study author Dr. Susan Domchek, an associate professor of medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.

A gene that greatly increases a woman's risk of breast cancer also causes a particularly deadly form of prostate cancer, say Canadian researchers who studied 301 prostate cancer patients. On average, those with the defective BRCA2 gene lived an average of four years after diagnosis. The average survival time for prostate cancer patients is 12 years.

I live in Scottsdale and have encountered a kiosk at the mall for Weight Loss and green tea. Because I am a breast cancer survivor I am solely interested in the Green Tea's health factor. This product is in powdered form that you add to a bottle of water (during the summer we drink loads of water). I have tasted the mocha flavor and it tastes terrific ( I prefer coffee to tea). It is caffeine free and supposed to be as effective as drinking 50 cups of green tea! I would love to know if this product is as good (and healthy) as they say.

I was diagnosed with breast cancer in both breasts and lymph nodes under both arms in August 2006. After completing treatment, my ultrasounds for 2005 are missing. Attempting to locate them, I have heard stories from many women whose mammograms and other radiology records have gone missing after a diagnosis of cancer. These missing records prevent any hope of collecting damages - which is perhaps why they have gone missing!

By Amanda Gardner
EmpowHer's HealthDay Reporter

MONDAY, June 16 (HealthDay News) -- Researchers have identified a new group of compounds that might one day be added to the armamentarium of therapies designed to fight estrogen-fueled breast cancer.

"This is a potential new approach to treating hormonally sensitive tumors," said Dr. Len Lichtenfeld, deputy chief medical officer of the American Cancer Society. "If it proves to work with a lot of further research, then it does have potential as an important part of cancer research."

15th June 2008

Hello everyone,

Unfortunately, I have been unwell to update my blog more regularly as chemotherapy has been harsh and unrelenting on my body.

Over the past few weeks I have been hospitalised with severe gastritis due to the steroids I take to curb side effects from the chemo and discovered I have a deep vein thrombosis which requires twice daily injections of Clexane in the stomach, I had another stay in hospital to have my "porta-cath" inserted and my worse nightmare has hit as I have discovered an identical mass in my right breast!!!

My husband brought to my attention the article in the AZ Republic today. Thinking I would find answers to some of my medical problems, I quickly read the article only to find out about your web site. I have never written anything to a web site and doubt you have the space needed, but here goes. I am fifty-nine years old, married for forty one years to the same man, (top that one)and have medical problems that continue to amaze me. Like you Michelle, I had a complete hysterectomy, I was fifty at the time and had a benign tumor.

I read lots in the media about prevention, which is great, but very little about what might help those of us who are already living with cancer. I am (so far) a 7-year survivor, and want to live many more years. I'd like to know if some of these preventive treatments would also be helpful for women like me, and what the new treatments are for us as well.