Nearly every American who has become a parent in the last decade has heard the slogan, "breast milk is best," and has likely been encouraged to offer breast milk to newborns. Among other things, breast milk contains natural ...
Jan 17, 2018
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Clinical trials of new anti-cancer therapies have often excluded patients whose disease has spread to the brain or central nervous system (CNS) or, if such patients were allowed on trial, trials have often failed to clearly ...
Dec 30, 2017
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A joint effort by breast cancer researchers and bioinformaticians has provided new insights into the molecular changes that drive breast development.
Nov 20, 2017
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Breast cancer is a growing epidemic in India. It could kill 76,000 women a year by 2020, according to a recent study. It claimed more than 70,000 lives in 2012. At the heart of the issue is the country's rapid economic development, ...
Oct 10, 2017
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More than 70 per cent of school girls want to know more about breast cancer, according to new research released today.
Apr 12, 2017
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My colleagues and I have conducted research focused on understanding and addressing the gap in menstrual support in countries around the world for over a decade.
Mar 7, 2017
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Researchers at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute have discovered 'hotspots' of mutations in breast cancer genomes, where mutations thought to be inactive 'passengers' in the genome have now been shown to possibly drive ...
Jan 23, 2017
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In a survey of women who underwent treatment for early-stage breast cancer in one breast, contralateral prophylactic mastectomy (CPM; both breasts are surgically removed, the breast that contains cancer and the healthy breast) ...
Dec 21, 2016
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New research explains how metastatic breast cancer cells might use bone marrow-derived mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) to help them spread to bone tissue. A study using a 3D scaffold model has shown that breast tumor-derived ...
Nov 4, 2016
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More and more girls are expected to have to confront breast cancer fears as modern genomics technology makes it easier to detect strong risk factors such as inherited BRCA1/2 mutations. But a new study shows that adolescent ...
Sep 26, 2016
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