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		2005 ARCHIVE Bill Passes Unanimously — Good News for CT Women Herceptin/Chemo Improves Survival in Early-Stage Breast Cancer Quilt Raffle to Fund the Emergency Fund NEWS 2006 ARCHIVE NEWS 2004 ARCHIVE NEWS 2003 ARCHIVE BILL PASSES UNAMIMOUSLY IN BOTH CONNECTICUT HOUSES S30, a bill that requires health insurers to offer both mammography and ultrasound as options for breast cancer screening for women with a family history of breast cancer has passed unanimously in both Connecticut houses today. It is expected that Governor Rell will sign the bill. This is a great step forward for the women of Connecticut and we are thrilled to have submitted testimony and input to the bill. We wanted to thank everyone who responded to our requests and called about this bill. HERCEPTIN/CHEMO IMPROVES DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL IN EARLY-STAGE BREAST CANCER The combination of Herceptin and standard chemotherapy cuts the risk of HER-2-positive breast cancer recurrence by more than half compared with chemotherapy alone, the National Cancer Institute announced yesterday. The result comes from two large, NCI-sponsored, randomized trials testing a Herceptin/chemotherapy combination against chemotherapy alone in women with invasive, early stage, HER-2 positive breast cancer. The Data Monitoring Committees overseeing the trials’ combined analysis recommended that the results of a recent, combined interim analysis be made public because the studies had met their primary endpoint of increasing disease-free survival in patients receiving combination therapy. There was also a statistically significant improvement in overall survival with the Herceptin/chemotherapy combination. “For women with this type of aggressive breast cancer, the addition of Herceptin to chemotherapy appears to virtually reverse prognosis from unfavorable to good,” says Dr. Edward Romond, study chair for one of the two trials led by the National Surgical Adjuvant Breast and Bowel Project. QUILT RAFFLE TO FUND THE EMERGENCY FUND A group of quilters in Weston made a quilt for the CBCC, for which we are very grateful. The raffle will be held on January 23, 2005. The money raised will fund the Breast Cancer Emergency Fund. For information about raffle tickets, please write to sdavis@cbccf.org.

		Last Update: 10-Mar-2007
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