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DNA Housekeeping Proteins May Also Prevent Cancer
May 06, 2013
Scientists once thought BAF proteins confined their activity to cellular housekeeping. But then they discovered these complexes do more than help package and maintain DNA in cells: it seems they also suppress tumor development in many types of tissue... Read More
Using DCIS Score To Quantify Risk Of IBE For Breast Cancer Patients
May 06, 2013
The ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) Score quantifies the risk of ipsilateral breast event (IBE) and invasive IBE risk, complements both traditional clinical and pathologic factors, and helps provide a new clinical tool to improve the process of selecting individualized treatment for women with DCIS who meet the criteria, according to a study published in the Journal of the Nati... Read More
Blocking A Single Gene Renders Tumors Less Aggressive
May 06, 2013
Researchers at Johns Hopkins have identified a gene that, when repressed in tumor cells, puts a halt to cell growth and a range of processes needed for tumors to enlarge and spread to distant sites. The researchers hope that this so-called "master regulator" gene may be the key to developing a new treatment for tumors resistant to current drugs... Read More
Everolimus Can Overcome Trastuzumab Resistance In HER-2 Positive Early Breast Cancer
May 06, 2013
A study that aimed to understand how the cancer drug everolimus helps overcome the resistance breast cancers can develop to trastuzumab has left researchers contemplating a puzzle. The study showed a statistically non-significant benefit in clinical response rates for some patients with early breast cancer when everolimus was added to treatment with trastuzumab... Read More
STD's Not Cancer Prevention Should Be The Focus For Promoting HPV Vaccine
May 06, 2013
The HPV vaccine can prevent both cervical cancer and a nasty sexually transmitted disease in women. But emphasizing the STD prevention will persuade more young women to get the vaccine, a new study suggests. These results go against the conventional wisdom that scaring women about the possibility of cancer is the best way to get them vaccinated... Read More
Cervical Cancer Detection In Kenya Via Self-Collection Of Samples For HPV Testing
May 06, 2013
In Kenya, women face a cervical cancer mortality rate that is approximately 10 times as high as in the United States. A study by researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill suggests that training women to self-collect genital samples to test for human papillomavirus (HPV), the causative agent of cervical cancer, can increase the coverage rates of cervical cancer screening... Read More
Discovery Improves Understanding Of The Biology That Underlies Breast And Ovarian Cancers
May 06, 2013
A major international study involving a Simon Fraser University scientist has found that sequence differences in a gene crucial to the maintenance of our chromosomes' integrity predispose us to certain cancers... Read More
Breast Cancer Patients At High And Low Risk Of Late Recurrence Can Be Identified By Gene Expression Test
May 06, 2013
A test that measures the expression levels of 58 genes in oestrogen receptor-positive breast cancers can effectively differentiate between patients who are at higher and lower risk for having their cancer recur elsewhere in the body more than five years after diagnosis, researchers report... Read More
No Barrier To Predictive Testing Found In Breast Cancer Heterogeneity
May 06, 2013
Breast cancers contain many different cell types with different patterns of gene expression, but a new study provides reassurance that this variability should not be a barrier to using gene expression tests to help tailor cancer treatments to individual patients. The findings were reported at the 5th IMPAKT Breast Cancer Conference in Brussels, Belgium... Read More
Potential New Targeted Therapies For Breast Cancer
May 06, 2013
A study led by prominent breast cancer experts from Europe and the US has revealed a number of potentially important prospects for targeted therapies, and brings opportunities of truly personalised therapy for breast cancer a step closer, researchers said at the 5th IMPAKT Breast Cancer Conference in Brussels, Belgium... Read More
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