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Physics tool helps track cancer cell diversity
Cancer cells are a wily adversary. One reason the disease outfoxes many potential treatments is…
FDA approves neratinib for metastatic HER2-positive breast cancer
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved neratinib in combination with capecitabine for adult patients…
A new strategy to prevent the most aggressive tumours from generating resistance to chemotherapy
One of the most frequent problems when treating cancer is that the tumours develop resistance…
Both BRCA1-wild type and mutant triple-negative breast cancers show
Oncotarget features “MLN4924 treatment induces DNA damage by stabilising CDT1 and accumulates the cells in S…
Women older than 75 may not reap death benefit from continued mammography screening
Healthy American women over the age of 75 years might not benefit from continuing breast…
Abbreviated MRI outperforms 3D mammograms at finding cancer in dense breasts
According to a study published in JAMA, abbreviated breast magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) detected significantly more…
Immune therapy reduces risk of recurrence in aggressive breast cancer
An immune therapy for the most aggressive form of breast cancer can substantially reduce the…
Study finds inflammation caused by radiation can drive triple-negative breast cancer
While radiation is successfully used to treat breast cancer by killing cancer cells, inflammation caused…
Study shows genetic effects of pre-surgical chemo in breast cancer
esults from one of the first studies to determine the effects of pre-surgical, or neoadjuvant,…
How counselling can help breast cancer patients: Zulu women share their stories
Duduzile Zwane, University of Johannesburg Breast cancer is the most common cancer and the leading…