New insights into how cancer cells fuel their growth are opening novel possibilities for cancer treatment. A team of researchers at Baylor College of Medicine and Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center has identified a ...
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Mutations in human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2) were found to confer resistance to hormone therapy in some estrogen receptor (ER)-positive metastatic breast cancer cases, and resistance could be reversed by dual ...
Mar 19, 2018
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Despite great advances in medicine, cancer remains a death sentence for many. "Patients are still dying from breast cancer relapse," says Jian Yuan Goh, of A*STAR's Genome Institute of Singapore. The researcher and his colleagues, ...
Mar 16, 2018
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Commercially-available prognostic breast cancer tests show significant variation in their abilities to predict disease recurrence, according to a study led by Queen Mary University of London of nearly 800 postmenopausal women.
Feb 15, 2018
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Prostate cancer survivors make up the largest group, 41 percent, of male cancer survivors. In these survivors, early detection of recurrence can lead to life-saving interventions, but in older men who survived low-risk cancer ...
Feb 13, 2018
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A nuclear medicine scan may locate prostate cancer recurrence after radical prostatectomy early after disease recurrence and could help guide salvage radiotherapy, according to new research from the University of California ...
Feb 1, 2018
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In an analysis of more than 120,000 women diagnosed with and treated for early-stage breast cancer, researchers from The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center determined the rate of additional breast biopsies needed ...
Jan 31, 2018
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(HealthDay)—Longer survival after breast cancer may be as simple as staying fit, new research shows.
Jan 22, 2018
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Researchers from Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin have discovered that the survival of cancer stem cells is dependent on the Hedgehog signaling pathway. Targeting this pathway had previously shown no effect on the growth ...
Jan 22, 2018
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The most commonly used gene expression profile test used to help predict breast cancer recurrence may not be as cost-effective as once thought, say a team of researchers led by Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center.
Jan 8, 2018
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