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New Ways of Studying Drugs are Needed to Succeed in Developing New Agents
By Beverly A. Caley

A plethora of molecularly targeted agents have the potential to be effective new treatments for breast cancer, Jose Baselga, MD, told an overflow crowd at an educational session held Wednesday evening. He cautioned, however, that to take full advantage of many of the promising new agents, it may be necessary to change the way new drugs are studied... [MORE]

DAILY BLOGS

	>> Debu Tripathy, MD EDITOR-IN-CHIEF, CURE MAGAZINE The 31st Annual San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium opened today with a new pre-conference educational session that underlines the theme of this Symposium – multi-disciplinary and translational issues that address the spectrum from research to practice and from breast cancer prevention to treatment of advanced disease... [MORE]
	>> Susan McClure VICE PRESIDENT & PUBLISHER, CURE MAGAZINE Hi CURE readers!  For the second year running, we are proud to bring you daily updates from the San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium (SABCS).  For 31 years, this program has provided ground-breaking information on breast cancer to physicians and researchers and I believe that while many organizations provide updates, most don’t attempt to tackle it as CURE is — as it happens... [MORE]
	>> Joan Venticinque ADVOCATE & GUEST BLOGGER Joan Venticinque was awarded a scholarship by the Alamo Breast Cancer Foundation for the second year to serve as an advocate. In this role she has agreed to blog for CURE to keep you up to date from an advocate’s perspective. To learn more about Venticinque see the feature on her later this week... [MORE]

BRIEFS

A Recap of Last Year's Symposium
The 2007 San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium sparked a number of important stories, from non-anthracycline drugs for early-stage breast cancer and a gene test that predicts recurrence risk to data on hypofractionated radiation--larger doses of radiation on a shorter schedule... [MORE]

• Advocates Converge at Breast Cancer Conference: Eleven years ago the San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium debuted a new program that encouraged breast cancer survivors and advocates to join those learning about the latest in breast cancer research alongside experts in the field... [MORE]

• SABCS 2008 Marks the First Year of Collaboration: As announced last year, the American Association of Cancer Research (AACR) has joined the Cancer Therapy and Research Center at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, and the Baylor College of Medicine in putting on the San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium... [MORE]

ADVOCACY STORY

Advocates Put Triple Negative Breast Cancer to the Test
Allison Axenrod and Hayley Dinerman first met Nancy Block-Zenna in 2003 at a Mommy and Me class and became instant friends and soon were a part of each other's larger communities. So, when Block-Zenna was diagnosed with triple-negative breast cancer in 2005, her community jumped in to help... [MORE]