http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. Four proteins involved in translation, the final step of general protein production, are associated with poor prognosis in hormone-receptor-positive breast cancer when they are dysregulated, researchers reported at the AACR Annual Meeting 2012. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-pi3kmtor-pathway-proteins-tied-poor.html Cancer Sun, 01 Apr 2012 12:32:10 EST news252502306 A recently discovered enzyme drives the production of a potent form of estrogen in human breast cancer tissue, researchers from the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine have found. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-05-enzyme-breast-cancer-growth.html Cancer Wed, 18 May 2011 16:14:24 EST news224954046 Researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine have discovered a steroid hormone that inhibits inflammation in the brain. The findings, to be published in the May 13 issue of the journal Cell, have implications for understanding the exaggerated inflammatory responses that are characteristic features of numerous neurodegenerative diseases. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-05-sex-hormone-precursor-inhibits-brain.html Medical research Thu, 12 May 2011 12:27:54 EST news224422037 In the first large trial of its kind in the United States, researchers have shown that estrogen-lowering drugs can shrink tumors and reduce mastectomy rates for patients with stage 2 or 3 breast cancer. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-05-estrogen-lowering-drugs-mastectomy-breast-cancer.html Cancer Mon, 09 May 2011 16:30:49 EST news224177415