Oncology & Cancer
Douching: more harmful than helpful
(HealthDay)—Douching is the age-old practice of using a solution to attempt to clean the vagina, but there's only downsides to it.
Apr 2, 2019
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News tagged with inflammatory breast cancer
Genetics
Researchers predict risk for common deadly diseases from millions of genetic variants
A research team at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), and Harvard Medical School reports a new kind of genome analysis that could identify large fractions of the population who have ...
Aug 13, 2018
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Oncology & Cancer
Tracking a rare and dangerous breast cancer
When you think of breast cancer, you probably picture a telltale lump. Gayathri Devi, PhD, dispels that image with a few photos: a person's chest with what looks like a rash, then a thermographic version of the image showing ...
Oct 24, 2017
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Oncology & Cancer
Nipple-sparing mastectomy has low rate of breast cancer recurrence
Women with breast cancer who undergo nipple-sparing mastectomy (NSM) have a low rate of the cancer returning within the first five years, when most recurrences in the breast are diagnosed, findings of a single-center study ...
Jul 17, 2017
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Oncology & Cancer
Fat tissue may impede radiotherapy for breast cancer patients
According to research published online in The FASEB Journal, repeated irradiation of breast fat (also known as adipose tissue) produces an inflammatory response that ultimately reduces the efficiency of radiotherapy in breast ...
Jun 8, 2017
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Oncology & Cancer
Study shows how BPA may affect inflammatory breast cancer
The chemical bisphenol A, or BPA, appears to aid the survival of inflammatory breast cancer cells, revealing a potential mechanism for how the disease grows, according to a study led by researchers in the Department of Surgery ...
Mar 29, 2017
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Oncology & Cancer
Poor adolescent, early adult diet associated with increased risk for premenopausal breast cancer
Women who consumed a diet as adolescents or young adults associated with chronic inflammation had a higher risk for premenopausal breast cancer compared with those whose adolescent and early adulthood diet was not associated ...
Mar 1, 2017
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Oncology & Cancer
Study reveals drug interactions that may reduce mortality in breast cancer patients
Patient health records revealed two drug combinations that may reduce mortality rates in breast cancer patients, according to a study led by researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine.
Dec 9, 2016
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Oncology & Cancer
Periodontal disease associated with increased breast cancer risk in postmenopausal women
Postmenopausal women with periodontal disease were more likely to develop breast cancer than women who did not have the chronic inflammatory disease. A history of smoking significantly affected the women's risk.
Dec 21, 2015
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Oncology & Cancer
How breast cancer cells avoid cell death
Two new papers from the lab of Zach Schafer, Coleman Assistant Professor of Cancer Biology at the University of Notre Dame, offer insights into how breast cancer cells avoid anoikis, which is cell death induced by detachment ...
Apr 20, 2015
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