Breast cancer stem cells wear a cell surface protein that is part nametag and part bull’s eye, identifying them as potent tumor-generating cells and flagging their vulnerability to a drug, researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Cente…
Apigenin, a natural substance found in grocery store produce aisles, shows promise as a non-toxic treatment for an aggressive form of human breast cancer, following a new study at the University of Missouri. MU researchers found apigenin shrank a type …
The fact that treating cancer patients with multiple drugs often results in better outcomes than a single drug treatment is long been known amongst the medical profession. However, a MIT study published in the May 11 issue of Cell has just demonstrated…
Chemotherapy is a major first line defense against breast cancer. However a patient’s response is often variable and unpredictable. A study published in BioMed Central’s open access journal BMC Medical Genomics shows that ‘gene expression signatures’ f…
A new study reveals that women with early-stage breast cancer in the milk ducts that has not metastasized to healthy surrounding breast tissue (ductal carcinoma in situ [DCIS]) appear to benefit from undergoing breast brachytherapy with a strut-based a…
Breast cancer in young women is a biologically unique disease that requires customized management strategies, researchers reported at the 4th IMPAKT Breast Cancer Conference, in Brussels, Belgium, 3-5 May 2012. The reported findings have potentially i…
Automated breast ultrasound takes an average three minutes of physician time, allowing for quick and more complete breast cancer screening of asymptomatic women with dense breast tissue, a new study shows. Mammography misses more than one-third of canc…
A pioneering approach to imaging breast cancer in mice has revealed new clues about why the human immune system often fails to attack tumors and keep cancer in check. This observation, by scientists at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF)…
A study in the May 2 edition of JAMA reveals that older women with invasive breast cancer who were treated with brachytherapy after lumpectomy were more likely to develop complications and had a lower risk of long-term breast preservation than women wh…
The most commonly diagnosed cancer amongst women is breast cancer. There are various types of breast cancers, for instance, HER2-positive cancer in which the tumor’s cells produce excess quantities of HER2, a particular protein called the human epiderm…
