Kelly Preston, actor and wife of John Travolta, dies aged 57 from breast cancer

Travolta says ‘Kelly’s love and life will always be remembered’ after revealing actor’s death after two-year illness

Kelly Preston, who appeared in the hit films Jerry Maguire and Twins, has died, her husband, John Travolta, said. She was 57.

Travolta said in an Instagram post that his wife of 28 years, who was diagnosed with breast cancer two years ago, died on Sunday.

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AI system outperforms experts in spotting breast cancer

Program developed by Google Health tested on mammograms of UK and US women

An artificial intelligence program has been developed that is better at spotting breast cancer in mammograms than expert radiologists.

The AI outperformed the specialists by detecting cancers that the radiologists missed in the images, while ignoring features they falsely flagged as possible tumours.

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Breast cancer risk from using HRT is ‘twice what was thought’

Study prompts medicines regulator to advise all women using HRT to remain vigilant

The risk of breast cancer from using hormone replacement therapy is double what was previously thought, according to a major piece of research, which confirms that HRT is a direct cause of the cancer.

The findings of the definitive study will cause concern among the 1 million women in the UK and millions more around the world who are using HRT. It finds that the longer women take it, the greater their risk, with the possibility that just one year is risk-free. It also finds that the risk does not go away as soon as women stop taking it, as had been previously assumed.

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Inspired touch: how blind women outdo doctors at finding breast cancer

Visually impaired women in Colombia are using their enhanced sense of feel to improve early breast cancer detection

As a child, Francia Papamija started progressively losing her eyesight due to a retinal detachment. Today, everything is darkness for the 36-year-old – except for the job she holds in a clinic in Cali, Colombia, where she contributes to the early detection of breast cancer.

Papamija is a medical tactile examiner (MTE), a role created especially for women who are blind and have higher sensitivity in their fingertips.

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UK breast cancer death rates falling fastest in ‘big six’ of Europe

Study says women aged 50-69 most likely to benefit, while those aged 70-79 will gain least

Death rates from breast cancer are falling faster in Britain than in any other of the six most populous countries in Europe, research shows.

The rate of death from the disease has fallen by 17.7% since 2010-2014 thanks to screening, earlier diagnosis and better treatment, a Europe-wide study [pdf] has found.

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Breast-ironing: UK government vows to tackle abusive practice

Home Office says ritual is child abuse and should be prosecuted under assault laws

The government has vowed to confront the practice of breast-ironing, calling it child abuse and saying the police should prosecute offenders under assault laws.

In a written parliamentary statement following Guardian revelations that the abusive practice was spreading in the UK, the Home Office said it was committed to challenging the cultural attitudes behind all “honour-based abuse”, but gave no indication it would legislate.

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Breast-ironing: ‘the whole community needs an education’

Practice that aims to slow girls’ physical development is both ineffective and dangerous, say doctors

In a quiet suburban house on the outskirts of a city in northern England, Maureen* – a mother of two in her late 30s – sits cradling a large dark stone in the palm of her hand.

She had just been using it to crush spices for a family meal. But a few years ago, she was using it for a very different purpose.

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Congresswomen, press to face off in softball game, fundraise for…

Democrats and Republicans aren't often on the same team, but on Wednesday, they will with two aims: to beat the press and to fundraise for breast cancer survivors. The Congressional Women's Softball Committee has already raised more than $300,000 this year for its annual softball game benefiting the Young Survivor Coalition, an organization that supports breast cancer survivors younger than the age of 40. "The players are united in the belief that no woman should have to face breast cancer alone," committee president Atalie Ebersole said.

Licking cancer: US postal stamp helped fund key breast study

Countless breast cancer patients in the future will be spared millions of dollars of chemotherapy thanks in part to something that millions of Americans did that cost them just pennies: bought a postage stamp. Proceeds from the U.S. Postal Service's breast cancer stamp put researchers over the top when they were trying to get enough money to do the landmark study published on Sunday that showed genetic testing can reveal which women with early-stage breast cancer need chemo and which do not.

New Roswell Park-Baylor Research Identifies Crucial Enzyme Driving Breast Cancer

New research published in Nature identified two key proteins involved in glucose metabolism that could be targeted to prevent breast cancer metastasis and recurrence. The development of strategies targeting the PFKFB4-SRC-3 pathway could be used to prevent the growth, recurrence and spread of many, if not all, types of breast cancer tumors.

New Anxieties As Trump Says Obamacare Will ‘Explode’

Americans who have benefited from the Affordable Care Act are feeling some relief at the failure of Republican efforts to repeal it, but they face new anxieties with President Donald Trump tweeting that "ObamaCare will explode." Premiums have risen and major insurers have backed out of the state markets where people can buy insurance online under Obama's signature health care law.

Scientists Identify Chain Reaction That Shields Breast Cancer Stem Cells From Chemotherapy

Working with human breast cancer cells and mice, researchers at Johns Hopkins say they have identified a biochemical pathway that triggers the regrowth of breast cancer stem cells after chemotherapy. The regrowth of cancer stem cells is responsible for the drug resistance that develops in many breast tumors and the reason that for many patients, the benefits of chemo are short-lived.

Woman battling cancer ‘humiliated,’ ‘violated’ during TSA search

The woman posted a video of the search to Facebook in hopes no one else would have to go through she went through. NEW YORK CITY A woman who has been battling breast cancer says an aggressive pre-flight screening, including a public body cavity search, left her feeling humiliated and violated.

Tigerlily Foundation President and Breast Cancer Advocate, Maimah…

Tigerlily Foundation's President and Founder, Maimah Karmo was featured on the September 17th episode of Oprah Winfrey Network's "Were are They Now." The feature highlighted Maimah's and Tigerlily Foundation's progress since her first appearance in 2008.

Clinton’s health matters bring out the quacks | Editorial

As Donald Trump surrogates peddle their " Hillary Clinton is dying " narrative, rarely a day passes without doctors offering opinions on Clinton's health despite lacking access to a single medical record. This parade of quackery is led by Dr. Jane Orient , who declares Clinton "medically unfit to serve," even though her judgment is based on photos .