Isaura Santos graduated with a BS in Cell and Molecular Biology from Universidade Nova de Lisboa and a MA in Communication, Culture and Information Technologies from University Institute of Lisbon (ISCTE-IUL). Her professional interests include science communication, public awareness of science and communication of science through entertainment.
Despite the advancment in techniques to address metastatic breast cancer, there are still very few effective treatment options. A recent phase 3 trial showed that palbociclib doubled the time to cancer recurrence in those suffering with hormone-receptor ... Read more
During its annual meeting, the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) announced that a scientific report describing a drug targeting the unprecedented genomic sequencing of 14 metastatic triple-negative breast cancers was the ... Read more
John Boone, a UC Davis professor of radiology and a physicist, was recently awarded $2.88 million in funding from the National Cancer Institute to support the development and research of computed tomography (CT) for breast cancer screening. Boone is ... Read more
In a recent news release from the College of American Pathologists (CAP), physicians note that receiving a breast cancer diagnosis is a frightening ordeal for every woman. However, researchers have recently showed ... Read more
It is extremely difficult to predict which drug will work the best in addressing cancer treatment for a particular breast cancer patient, as choosing the best one from more than one hundred drugs ... Read more
A recent study published in the journal Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention explains that decreasing the time spent eating and increasing overnight fasting lowers glucose levels and might reduce the risk for breast ... Read more
A research team led by scientists at the Cancer Research Institute at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) managed to identify a Pin1 enzyme inhibitor that can block tumor growth in acute promyelocytic leukemia ... Read more
A recent study from the University of Eastern Finland concluded that very low mammographic breast density significantly worsens breast cancer‘s prognosis. The authors show that disease free survival and the general life expectancy were much shorter ... Read more
A recent study published in The New England Journal of Medicine found that early menopause can be prevented and fertility might be preserved in young women suffering from early stage breast cancer. The ... Read more
Heather Ochs-Balcom, a researcher at the University of Buffalo, recently led the “Jewels in our Genes” study that cleared previously unknown sequences of DNA that African American family members who develop breast cancer share in common. ... Read more
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