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Fruit and Vegetable Intake Is Associated With Lower Risk of ER Breast Cancer
January 24, 2013 There is no association between total fruit and vegetable intake and risk of overall breast cancer, but vegetable consumption is associated with a lower risk of estrogen receptor-negative (ER-) ... > full story -
Researchers Reduce Breast Cancer Spread by Blocking Tissue Scarring
January 24, 2013 What to fear most if faced by a cancer diagnosis is the spread of the cancer to other parts of the body. Metastasis accounts for over 90 percent of cancer patient deaths. Researchers have shown that ... > full story -
Bioengineers Discover Natural Switch That Controls Spread of Breast Cancer Cells
January 23, 2013 With a desire to inhibit metastasis, biomedical engineers have found the natural switch between the body’s inflammatory response and how malignant breast cancer cells use the bloodstream to ... > full story -
SNPs Associated With Breast Cancer Risk Alter Binding Affinity for Pioneer Factor FOXA1
January 23, 2013 Scientists showed that more than half of all the SNPs associated with breast cancer risk are located in distant regions and bound by FOXA1, a protein required for estrogen receptor-alpha function ... > full story -
Limited Lymph Node Removal Effective for Most Women With Early Stage Breast Cancer and Positive Sentinel Lymph Nodes
January 23, 2013 A new study confirms landmark Z0011 trial results and reports on its impact in a larger percentage of breast cancer ... > full story -
Treatment Targeting PI3K May Delay Resistance to Anti-HER2 Therapy in Breast Cancer Patients
January 23, 2013 Patients with HER2-positive breast cancer being treated with anti-HER2 therapy may be able to prevent or delay resistance to the therapy with the addition of a phosphatidylinositol-3 kinase inhibitor ... > full story -
New Drug Target for Her-2 Related Breast Cancer
January 22, 2013 New research details exactly how the Her2 cancer gene promotes the progression and spread of breast cancer cells. The inactivation of a tumor suppression gene called Nischarin is among the mechanisms ... > full story -
Rice-Cell Cocktail Tough on Cancer Cells, Nice to Normal Cells
January 22, 2013 In lab tests, juice from rice cells knocked out two kinds of human cancer cells as well or better than the potent anti-cancer drug Taxol. Plus, it did something extra: it left normal cells ... > full story -
Enzyme Helps Cancer Cells Avoid Genetic Instability
January 21, 2013 Cancer cells are resourceful survivors with plenty of tricks for staying alive. Researchers have uncovered one of these stratagems, showing how cells lacking the tumor suppressor BRCA1 can resume one ... > full story -
Cancer Mortality Down 20 Percent from 1991 Peak
January 17, 2013 An annual report from the American Cancer Society finds as of 2009, the overall death rate for cancer in the United States had declined 20 percent from its peak in 1991, translating to the avoidance ... > full story
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