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'An interesting step along a long path of research,' McGill scientist saysNew research led by McGill Biochemist Dr. William Muller helps explain why breast-milk cells lose their structure, causing them to clump up in strange ways (see photos) and sometimes become cancer tumors. With the... |
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Published on 30 April 2010, 14:05
Categories: Biochemistry
Breast Cancer
Breast Milk
Breast-tumour Growth
Genes
Proteins
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WASHINGTON — A decrease in breast density, or the proportion of fibroglandular tissue depicted on the mammogram image, over a number of years is associated with decreased risk of breast cancer, researchers from the Mayo Clinic campus in Minnesota report at the American Association for Cancer... |
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Published on 20 April 2010, 16:04
Categories: Breast Cancer
Breast Density
Breast
Fibroglandular tissue
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Washington, DC – A high level of one type of estrogen in a man’s body might increase his risk of developing prostate cancer. That is one surprising conclusion from a new study which also offers another novel finding – that high levels of the estrogen considered fuel for breast cancer might... |
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Published on 20 April 2010, 08:21
Categories: Estrogen
Estrogen Level
Prostate Cancer
Estrogen metabolites
Breast Cancer
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Washington, DC – Eating too much fat in pregnancy may be an indulgence that has a less-than-beneficial effect on generations to come, say researchers at Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center. Their unique study in rats shows that pregnant females that ate a high fat diet not only... |
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Published on 20 April 2010, 08:08
Categories: Fat
Pregnancy
High fat diet
Breast Cancer
Estrogen
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SEATTLE — Women with breast cancer before age 55 who carry an inherited mutation in the breast cancer susceptibility genes BRCA1 or BRCA2 are four times more likely to develop cancer in the breast opposite, or contralateral, to their initial tumor as compared to breast cancer patients without... |
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Published on 6 April 2010, 04:57
Categories: BRCA gene
BRCA1
BRCA2
Breast Cancer
Cancer
Gene Mutation
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Expression of inflammatory-related genes in breast tissue of women who have previously given birth may explain the aggressiveness and frequency of pregnancy-associated breast cancer, according to new research at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Pregnancy at a relatively young age reduces... |
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Published on 29 March 2010, 14:37
Categories: Breast Cancer
Pregnancy
Pregnancy-Associated Breast Cancer
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Scientists in the Duke Institute for Genome Sciences & Policy (IGSP) say patterns of gene expression in biological pathways activated in the development of breast cancer reveal many new subtypes of the disease. The findings, appearing online in the Proceedings of the National Academy of... |
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Published on 23 March 2010, 14:19
Categories: Breast Cancer
Gene expression
Breast cancer subtypes
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BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- Women's responsiveness to the second-line breast cancer drug fulvestrant may depend on whether the cancer cells are expressing two key proteins, Indiana University Bloomington scientists report in this month's Cancer Biology & Therapy.Fulvestrant appeared to... |
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Published on 10 March 2010, 08:11
Categories: Breast Cancer
Breast Cancer Drugs
Fulvestrant
CK8
CK18
Estrogen
ER-alpha
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Cryoablation generates immune response that kills metastases in mice.Clinical trial open now to evaluate this technique in patients.ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Freezing a cancer kills it in its place, and also appears to generate an immune response that helps stop the cancer’s spread, leading to... |
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Published on 3 March 2010, 12:41
Categories: Cryoablation
Breast Cancer
Freezing technique
Oncology
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Older women who have had breast cancer surgery have a greater risk of the cancer returning if they delay their post-surgical radiation treatment, report Dana-Farber Cancer Institute scientists.The study, which involved more than 18,000 women age 65 and older who had breast cancer, found that... |
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Published on 3 March 2010, 12:28
Categories: Breast Cancer
Breast Cancer Surgery
Oncology
Radiation
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BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Hypnosis can help alleviate the pain and suffering experienced by women being treated for breast cancer, according to a study by a University at Buffalo School of Social Work professor.The randomized trial measured pain and suffering, frequency of pain and degree of constant pain... |
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Published on 24 February 2010, 14:01
Categories: Hypnosis
Pain
Breast Cancer
Psychotherapy
Metastatic Breast Cancer
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Chemical found in feverfew, long a staple of natural herbal medicine, shuts down pro-survival signal in resistant breast cancer cells. Washington, DC – Combining tamoxifen, the world’s most prescribed breast cancer agent, with a compound found in the flowering plant feverfew may prevent... |
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Published on 16 February 2010, 08:20
Categories: Bcl2
Breast Cancer
Chemicals
Feverfew
Herbal medicine
Plants
Tamoxifen
Tamoxifen resistance
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New Haven, Conn. — A Yale University-led team of researchers has demonstrated for the first time that variants in a gene responsible for regulating the body’s circadian rhythm may lead to breast cancer. The study appears as an OnlineFirst publication of the journal Cancer Research.Previous... |
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Published on 3 February 2010, 13:05
Categories: Circadian Rhythm
Breast Cancer
Epigenetics
CLOCK gene
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(Boston) - Researchers from the Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) have determined how the TGFβ-Smad signaling pathway, which is over activated in late-stage cancers, is responsible for the “epigenetic memory” that maintains unique patterns of regulatory DNA hypermethylation causing... |
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Published on 25 January 2010, 08:37
Categories: Epigenetics
TGFβ
Cancer
DNA hypermethylation
Breast Cancer
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