Browsing: Breast Cancer
Particle shows promise to prevent the spread of triple-negative breast cancer
USC researchers have pinpointed a remedy to prevent the spread of triple-negative breast cancer. Metastatic…
Translating Research and Biomarkers
By Ian Olver AM for oncologynews.com.au The term translational research is broad but most often…
Six months of Herceptin could be as effective as 12 months for some women with HER2 positive breast cancer
For women with HER2 positive early-stage breast cancer taking Herceptin for six months could be…
New guidelines to help clinicians manage GSM in women with breast cancer
Although the genitourinary syndrome of menopause (GSM) is more prevalent in survivors of breast cancer…
Diagnosing breast cancer with an imaging pill
For women, mammograms are a sometimes uncomfortable, but necessary, annual ritual. But this procedure doesn’t…
Shorter Trastuzumab Treatment for HER2+ Breast Cancer Can Be as Effective, With Fewer Cardiac Side Effects
“The use of trastuzumab has been a major advance for women with HER2-positive breast cancer…
Multigene testing replacing BRCA tests for breast cancer risk, researcher says
The use of genetic tests aimed at detecting the presence of mutations in the BRCA1…
Scientists identify cause of resistance to breakthrough breast and ovarian cancer drug
Scientists have identified a mutation that gives cancer cells resistance to the breakthrough cancer treatment…
Study links breast cancer to the body’s internal clock
For years, doctors have associated the BRCA1 and BRCA2 gene mutations with an increased risk…
Osteoporosis drug could be used to treat aggressive form of breast cancer
Researchers in China have discovered that an enzyme called UGT8 drives the progression of basal-like…