A doctor treating a patient with a potentially fatal metastatic breast tumor would be very pleased to find, after administering a round of treatment, that the primary tumor had undergone a change in character - from aggressive ...
Dec 22, 2015
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When breast cancer becomes advanced and spreads to other organs, patient survival is drastically reduced, prompting the need to explore the genes that may cause tumor cells to metastasize.
Feb 12, 2016
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Breast cancer stem cells exist in two different states and each state plays a role in how cancer spreads, according to an international collaboration of researchers. Their finding sheds new light on the process that makes ...
Jan 14, 2014
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"Cure" is a word that's dominated the rhetoric in the war on cancer for decades. But it's a word that medical professionals tend to avoid. While the American Cancer Society reports that cancer treatment has improved markedly ...
May 20, 2016
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In the brief time that drugs known as CDK4/6 inhibitors have been approved for the treatment of metastatic breast cancer, doctors have made a startling observation: in certain patients, the drugs—designed to halt cancer ...
Aug 16, 2017
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In a first-in-world clinical trial, researchers at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in Toronto, Canada, have demonstrated that magnetic resonance (MR)-guided focused ultrasound can be used to safely deliver antibody therapy ...
Oct 13, 2021
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USC researchers have developed a mathematical model to forecast metastatic breast cancer survival rates using techniques usually reserved for weather prediction, financial forecasting and surfing the Web.
Nov 23, 2015
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Tiny structures called nanoparticles can be used to carry substances to certain parts of the body—for example, to deliver a chemotherapy drug to a tumor. Although such "nanomedicines" offer hope for improving cancer therapeutics, ...
Mar 11, 2022
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A study by researchers at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute has illuminated a specific mechanism by which estrogen receptor-positive (ER+) breast cancers can become resistant to standard therapies and metastasize.
Feb 12, 2018
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Researchers at the University of Maryland School of Medicine (UMSOM) developed a new nanoparticle drug formulation that targets a specific receptor on cancer cells, and appears to be more effective than a standard nanoparticle ...
Jan 15, 2020
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