Breast Cancer News
May 21, 2024
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Apr. 29, 2024 A new study examining the role of aspirin in breast cancer treatment reveals critical issues related to health equity and aging that have broad implications for cancer and other disease intervention ...
Apr. 26, 2024 Rates of breast cancer in women under the age of 50 are rising in Canada according to a study which showed an increase in breast cancer diagnoses among females in their twenties, thirties, and ...
Apr. 10, 2024 Researchers showed that AI assistance potentially could improve breast-cancer screening by reducing the number of false positives without missing true ...
Apr. 4, 2024 It is possible to leave most of the lymph nodes in the armpit, even if one or two of them have metastases larger than two millimeters. This is shown in a trial enrolling women from five countries. The results open up for gentler surgery for patients ...
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Mar. 28, 2024 People carrying BRCA1 and BRCA2 gene mutations are at high risk of developing breast and ovarian cancer. Researchers have found that changes occur in ...
Mar. 20, 2024 There is a surprising dearth of research about how breast cancer cells can go dormant, spread and then resurface years or even decades later, ...
Mar. 11, 2024 A newly developed 'GPS nanoparticle' injected intravenously can home in on cancer cells to deliver a genetic punch to the protein implicated in tumor ...
Mar. 5, 2024 Researchers have designed a candidate drug that could help make pancreatic cancer, which is almost always fatal, a treatable, perhaps even curable, ...
Feb. 20, 2024 Annual breast cancer screening beginning at age 40 and continuing to at least age 79 results in the highest reduction in mortality with minimal ...
Feb. 13, 2024 Researchers report successful results from a hand-held breast cancer screening device that can detect breast cancer biomarkers from a tiny sample of ...
Feb. 12, 2024 For decades, hormonal treatment of breast cancer has been going in one direction -- blocking estrogen. Now a global study has discovered there may be another, less toxic way to defeat the most common ...
Feb. 9, 2024 An innovative breast imaging technique provides high sensitivity for detecting cancer while significantly reducing the likelihood of false positive results. Researchers said the technique has the ...
Jan. 19, 2024 A new study highlights the effectiveness of MDX-124, the first therapeutic drug to target annexin-A1, a protein which is overexpressed in several cancer types and promotes tumor ...
Jan. 17, 2024 Treatment of metastatic disease is responsible for nearly one-third of the decrease in annual deaths from breast cancer from 1975 to 2019, according to a new ...
Earlier Headlines
Mar. 19, 2024 Researchers have developed a new, interpretable artificial intelligence (AI) model to predict 5-year breast cancer risk from mammograms, according to a new ...
Jan. 17, 2024 Early detection of disease is considered positive -- but what if it finds 'too much'? While early diagnosis can improve the chances of recovery, early detection can also have unwanted side ...
Jan. 17, 2024 Australian scientists have pinpointed likely 'cells of origin', the source cells that can grow into breast cancer, in women carrying a faulty BRCA2 gene who are at high risk of developing ...
Jan. 16, 2024 Researchers report the development of a methodology to detect small amounts of potential tumor therapeutic targets, specificacally enzymes called kinases, that are present in biopsy samples. ...
Jan. 16, 2024 Breast cancer cells ingest and consume the matrix surrounding them to overcome starvation, according to a new study. The finding elucidates a previously unknown mechanism of cancer cell survival, and ...
Jan. 10, 2024 Soy compounds called isoflavones are among the plant-derived compounds that may significantly reduce the risk of breast cancer recurrence or death, according to a new ...
Jan. 9, 2024 Researchers have revealed a reason why endocrine resistance develops in breast cancers and how to potentially treat it in ...
Jan. 3, 2024 Mutations of the tumor suppressor p53 not only have a growth-promoting effect on the cancer cells themselves, but also influence the cells in the tumor's microenvironment. Scientists have now ...
Dec. 7, 2023 A new study demonstrates that the human gut microbiome may be a factor in breast ...
Dec. 7, 2023 Research reveals that around 20 per cent of all cases of the most severe form of breast cancer may arise from the small group of normal tissue cells carrying an epimutation of a specific gene, called ...
Dec. 6, 2023 has found that hormone levels, measured through blood tests, are an important indicator of whether women will benefit from recently licensed medication for the prevention of breast ...
Nov. 27, 2023 A new AI (Artificial Intelligence) tool may make it possible to spare breast cancer patients unnecessary chemotherapy treatments by using a more precise method of predicting their outcomes, reports a ...
Nov. 20, 2023 An analysis of breast cancer showed that the state’s urban counties had higher overall incidences of disease than rural counties, especially at early stages upon ...
Nov. 13, 2023 Intratumoral therapy -- in which cancer drugs are injected directly into tumors -- is a promising treatment option for solid cancers but has shown limited success in clinical trials due to an ...
Nov. 9, 2023 New experimental evidence suggests that substances known as narrow-spectrum Wnt signaling inhibitors -- which could have fewer side effects than other related substances -- are capable of suppressing ...
Nov. 9, 2023 Researchers have discovered that breast cancer cells expressing a cancer-driving gene heavily rely on vitamin B5 to grow and ...
Nov. 2, 2023 Women who receive a false positive mammography result are more likely to develop breast cancer over the subsequent 20 years, report researchers. The risk is highest for women aged between 60 and 75 ...
Oct. 18, 2023 Engineers have developed an experimental vaccine that could prevent the spread of metastatic cancers to the lungs. Its success lies in targeting a protein known to play a central role in cancer ...
Oct. 16, 2023 Clinicians who show more empathy promote better psychological health among breast cancer patients, according to a new study examining how oncology doctors facilitate psychological ...
Oct. 16, 2023 A team combined cutting-edge bioprinting techniques with synthetic structures or microfluidic chips. The method will help lab researchers more accurately understand heterogeneous tumors: Tumors with ...
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- Early Detection of Breast Cancer: Study Confirms the Effectiveness of a New Approach
- Study Pinpoints Breast Cancer 'cells of Origin' In High-Risk Women
Tuesday, January 16, 2024
- Method Improves Detection of Potential Therapeutic Tumor Targets in Human Biopsies
- Energy-Starved Breast Cancer Cells Consume Their Surroundings for Fuel
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- Manipulation of Gut Microbiota With Flaxseed Could Reduce Breast Cancer Risk
- Early Life Gene Epimutation May Cause Breast Cancer
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- Side-Effect Avoiding Treatment Shows Early Promise Against Breast Cancer in Mice
- Reducing Vitamin B5 Slows Breast Cancer Growth in Mice
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- Empathetic Cancer Clinicians Promote Psychological Well-Being in Breast Cancer Patients
- New 3D-Printed Tumor Model Enables Faster, Less Expensive and Less Painful Cancer Treatment
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- Breast Cancer Recurrence May Be Triggered by Chemotherapy Injury to Non-Cancer Cells
- Study Reveals Reductions in Breast Cancer Screening Uptake During COVID-19 Pandemic
Monday, September 11, 2023
- High Levels of Particulate Air Pollution Associated With Increased Breast Cancer Incidence
- ER-Positive Breast Cancer Presents Differing Metabolic Signatures in African American, White Women
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- Two-Pronged Immunotherapy Eliminates Metastatic Breast Cancer in Mice
- Study Reveals New Understanding of How Androgen Therapy Affects Breast Tissue
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- Why Cancers Caused by BRCA Mutations Recur
- Nanotechnology Platform Enables Immune Conversion of Cancer Cells, Sensitizing Them to Immunotherapy
- Copper a Clue in the Fight Against Cancer
Wednesday, November 9, 2022
Monday, November 7, 2022
- Breast Cancer: New Treatment Can Significantly Increase the Efficacy of Chemotherapy and Prevent Metastasis
- DNA Barcoding Reveals Cancer Cells' Ability to Evade the Immune System
Thursday, November 3, 2022
Monday, October 31, 2022
- Transistors Help Identify Cancer Cell Markers
- Possible Biological Explanation for Increased Cancer Risk in Dense Breasts
Friday, October 28, 2022
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Tuesday, October 25, 2022
- Some Breast Cancer Patients With High Responses to Chemotherapy May Not Need Surgery
- Researchers Develop 'Goldilocks Drug' To Treat Triple-Negative Breast Cancer
- Scientists Pinpoint Druggable Target in Aggressive Breast Cancer
Friday, October 21, 2022
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- New Drug Target for Triple-Negative Breast Cancer
- Hair Straightening Chemicals Associated With Higher Uterine Cancer Risk
Friday, October 14, 2022
- Researchers Discover How to Overcome a Treatment Resistance Mechanism in One of the Most Aggressive Types of Breast Cancer
- Study Sheds Light on Understudied Breast Cancer Type
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- Study Shows Annual Screening Before Age 50 Leads to Lower Proportions of Advanced Breast Cancer
- Collagen a Key Player in Breast Cancer Metastasis