It’s a message passed along year round, but October is the month the public is saturated with breast cancer information. The Lima noon optimist club heard from one of the leaders in our community in the area of breast cancer, Dr. Darlene Weyer, of Lima Memorial Health systems’ women’s health center.
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Tuesday Sept. 16 marked the beginning of a new 16 week Breast Cancer Awareness League at the AMF bowling center in Dale City. This is a fun doubles league with the purpose of raising public awareness of breast cancer and donating money for cancer research.
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Department of Molecular Reproduction, Development and Genetics (MRDG) of Indian Institute of Sciences (IISc) is embarked upon a major research initiative on micro-array based gene expressions profile study in breast cancer.
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Scientists from Finland, Germany and the ESRF have developed a new X-ray technique for the early detection of breast cancer. This allows a 3D visualization of the breast with a high spatial resolution and is extremely sensitive to alterations in the tissue, such as those generated by cancer. This technique could be used in the next years in hospitals. It may help doctors to detect tumours with …
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Thanks to the generosity of one Colorado Springs man, Memorial Health System recently became the first health care facility in Colorado Springs to offer digital mammography, a new way of screening that is more effective in detecting breast cancer.
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Letters To Kelley: Since her diagnosis with breast cancer in December, NewsCenter 5′s Kelley Tuthill has been flooded with letters, including some from other women who are fighting and beating this disease.

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