Breast cancer: strongest contender in decades
For decades, hormonal treatment of breast cancer has been going in one direction – blocking…
Browsing: oestrogen receptor positive breast cancer
Aromatase inhibitors are better than tamoxifen at reducing the risk of breast cancer recurrence in premenopausal as well as postmenopausal women
A new study has shown that giving aromatase inhibitors instead of tamoxifen to premenopausal women…
Fat-secreted molecule lowers response to common cancer treatment
Leptin, a molecule produced by fat cells, appears to cancel out the effects of the…
Gene signature identifies drivers of treatment resistance in metastatic breast cancer
A multi-institution team of researchers led by scientists at Baylor College of Medicine, USA, has…
Study identifies biomarker for breast cancer response to immunotherapy
A biomarker that has proven to be a predictor for response to immunotherapies in melanoma…
Bone microenvironment fosters breast cancer metastatic behaviour
Two studies led by Baylor College of Medicine, USA, shed new light on the unanswered…
Breast cancer: is milk a risk factor?
Richard Hoffman, University of Hertfordshire Breast cancer has now overtaken lung cancer as the world’s…
Gene could guide better treatment of most common breast cancer
Scientists have identified a gene which if present in certain breast cancer patients indicates how…
ICR responds to NICE approval of palbociclib for treating advanced breast cancer after hormone therapy
The Institute of Cancer Research, London, welcomes the approval by NICE of the innovative targeted…
Diet high in leucine may fuel breast cancer’s drug resistance
About one in eight women in the United States will develop breast cancer in her…