This is an amazing breast cancer treatment, without drugs or chemo.

In ChinaBio Today, we profiled two China biotechs last week. One, Shenogen Pharma Group, recently won one of the two “Most Promising Company” awards at the ChinaBio Investor Forum, held in early July in Shanghai (see story). Shenogen combines facets of Western and Eastern pharmaceutical practices. It uses a molecule from traditional Chinese medicine to target a novel receptor that Shenogen has discovered, which the company expects will prove to play a significant role in breast cancer. The Shen

Whether a painless, portable device that uses electrical current rather than X-ray to look for breast cancer could be an alternative to traditional mammograms is under study at the Medical College of Georgia.

North Shore Radiation Therapy has become the first cancer center on Long Island for breast cancer treatment with a revolutionary new technique using the Contura device from Senorx.

Many women remain confused about the right way to check their breasts for early signs of cancer. Experts say there is no evidence that rigorous monthly “self-examination” reduces breast cancer deaths and it can lead to unnecessary biopsies.

Two large studies looking at a total of more than 388,000 women found that death rates from breast cancer were the same among women who rigorously self-examined as those who did not, while there were almost twice the number of biopsy operations in the self-examination group.

According to some experts, the best way for a woman to check her breasts is not to follow a strict examination routine, but to get to know what is normal, and feel them regularly for signs of any changes.