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Medical Assessment in the Blink of an Eye
June 17, 2013 — Have you ever thought that you knew something about the world in the blink of an eye? It turns out that radiologists can do this with mammograms, the x-ray images used for breast cancer screening. ... > full story -
Osteoporosis Drug Stops Growth of Breast Cancer Cells, Even in Resistant Tumors, Study Suggests
June 15, 2013 — A drug approved in Europe to treat osteoporosis has now been shown to stop the growth of breast cancer cells, even in cancers that have become resistant to current targeted therapies, according to a ... > full story -
Developmental Protein Plays Role in Spread of Cancer
June 14, 2013 — A protein used by embryo cells during early development, and recently found in many different types of cancer, apparently serves as a switch regulating the spread of cancer, known as metastasis, ... > full story -
Gene Variants May Predict Who Will Benefit from Breast Cancer Prevention Drugs
June 13, 2013 — In women at high risk for breast cancer, a long-term drug treatment can cut the risk of developing the disease in half. Researchers have identified two gene variants that may predict which women are ... > full story -
Chemotherapy: Greater Potential Benefit in Overall Survival for Eribulin Compared With Capecitabine
June 12, 2013 — Subgroup analyses from a phase III clinical trial comparing a newer chemotherapy agent called eribulin mesylate, with capecitabine, a standard chemotherapy medication in women with previously treated ... > full story -
Screening Fails to Affect Breast Cancer Mortality Statistics, UK Study Finds
June 11, 2013 — New research from the UK analysing breast cancer mortality data spanning almost 40 years concludes that breast cancer screening does not yet show an effect on mortality statistics. The research ... > full story -
Significant Under-Use of Genetic Testing for Inherited Cancers Puts Health of Entire Families at Risk
June 7, 2013 — French researchers who carried out the first-ever national study of the take-up of genetic testing for BRCA1 and 2 and MMR (Lynch syndrome) mutations have found that, although there had been a steady ... > full story -
Clinical Sequencing Technology Identifies New Targets in Diverse Cancers
June 7, 2013 — Novel abnormalities in the FGFR gene were identified in a spectrum of cancers, and preliminary results with cancer cells harboring FGFR fusions suggested that some patients with these cancers may ... > full story -
Gene Variant May Provide Novel Therapy for Several Cancer Types
June 6, 2013 — A novel gene variant found in human and animal tissue may be a promising treatment for cancer, including breast and brain ... > full story -
Scientists Find Potential New Clues for Identifying Breast Cancer Risk
June 4, 2013 — New research provides critical insights into how normal breast precursor cells may be genetically vulnerable to develop into cancer. Scientists discovered that a particular class of normal breast ... > full story
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