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April 2, 2015April 2, 2015

Combined Drug Strategy May Improve Survival Rates in Breast Cancer Patients With Brain Metastasis

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Findings from a recent pre-clinical study published in the journal Molecular Cancer Therapeutics may offer a promising drug strategy to improve survival in patients with aggressive breast cancer who are diagnosed ... Read more

April 1, 2015October 18, 2016

Can Roses Help Prevent Breast Cancer Aggressiveness?

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A recent study has revealed that extract from rosehips, the fruit from rose plants, can reduce proliferation and metastasis of triple negative breast cancer (TNBC) cells. The study entitled “Rosehip (Rosa canina) ... Read more

March 31, 2015March 31, 2015

Researchers Find Gene Responsible for Aggressive Forms of Triple-Negative Breast Cancer

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A large multidisciplinary team led by researchers at the Garvan Institute of Medical Research and the University of New South Wales in Australia recently published in the journal Nature Communications ... Read more

March 30, 2015March 30, 2015

Low Breast Density In Mammography Can Worsen Breast Cancer Prognosis

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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

March 27, 2015March 27, 2015

Therapeutic Nanotechnology Applied in Breast and Ovarian Cancers

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A multidisciplinary team at Dartmouth College recently established a method to selectively target breast and ovarian cancer cells using nanoparticles with therapeutic applications. The findings were published in the International Journal ... Read more

March 24, 2015March 24, 2015

Cryoablation Under Clinical Trial For Breast Cancer Treatment

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Regional Medical Imaging, in conjunction with The West Clinic in Memphis announced a clinical trial to test cryoablation treatment for primary breast cancer. The study is recruiting women 65 and ... Read more

March 19, 2015October 18, 2016

University of Vermont Scientists’ 3-D Protein Snapshot Highlights Potential Breast Cancer Drug Target

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Cell genomes are under constant attack, incurring DNA damage requiring an array of repair mechanisms to keep cells healthy and vital. DNA polymerases are enzymes that create DNA molecules by ... Read more

March 18, 2015March 18, 2015

New Method To Prevent Early Menopause In Women With Breast Cancer

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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

March 13, 2015March 13, 2015

New Genetic Anomalies Connected To Breast Cancer In African American Families

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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

March 12, 2015March 12, 2015

Epstein-Barr Virus and HPV highly Prevalent in Aggressive Breast Cancer

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In a recent article entitled “Prevalence of Papillomaviruses, Polyomaviruses, and Herpesviruses in Triple-Negative and Inflammatory Breast Tumors from Algeria Compared with Other Types of Breast Cancer Tumors,” authors report an association ... Read more