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Understanding And Treating Triple-Negative Breast Cancer

Triple-negative breast cancer is a subtype of breast cancer that is clinically negative for expression of estrogen and…    

Breast Cancer on the Rise Among African Women, Say Experts

Breast Cancer originates from breast tissue, most commonly from the inner lining of milk ducts. While the disease…    

Breastfeeding for a year cuts cancer risk by a third: Study

Breastfeeding for at least a year can cut the chances of developing breast cancer by a third in…    

Effects of estrogen alone vs. estrogen plus progestin on breast cancer risk

In the past decade, results from large prospective cohort studies and the Women’s Health Initiative (WHI) randomized placebo-controlled…    

Dietary Cadmium May Be Linked with Breast Cancer Risk

Dietary cadmium, a toxic metal widely dispersed in the environment and found in many farm fertilizers, may lead…    

New Study Finds Usual Care Enough to Promote the Well Adjustment to Early Breast Cancer

Women with early stage breast cancer who receive the usual care available in medical centers experience physical, emotional,…    

Estrogen Benefit in Breast Cancer Affirmed

Reduced breast cancer risk with use of estrogen-only hormone therapy after hysterectomy persists long term, researchers affirmed in…    

Researchers discover possible approach to the treatment of aggressive breast cancer

In particularly aggressive forms of breast cancer, cancer cells can settle in other organs and form metastases there.…    

New screening technique could provide more reliable breast cancer detection

Scientists have successfully completed an initial trial of a new, potentially more reliable, technique for screening breast cancer…    

Stopping hormones might help breast cancer to regress

As soon as women quit hormone therapy, their rates of new breast cancer decline, supporting the hypothesis that…    

Scripps Florida Scientists Uncover Inflammatory Circuit That Triggers Breast Cancer

Although it’s widely accepted that inflammation is a critical underlying factor in a range of diseases, including the…    

Mammography-detected breast cancer in 40-49 year-olds has better prognosis

Based on a study of nearly 2,000 breast cancer patients, researchers at the Swedish Cancer Institute in Seattle…    

Understanding the role of androgen receptor signaling in breast cancer

The ovarian production of steroid hormones throughout a woman’s lifetime is ample and varied, with important changes during…    

Does hormone replacement therapy cause breast cancer

Based principally on findings in three studies, the collaborative reanalysis (CR), the Women’s Health Initiative (WHI) and the…    

Breast Implants Are Most Popular Form of Plastic Surgery

Breast augmentations are the most common form of plastic surgery nationwide, according to the American Society of Plastic…    

GW researchers reveal digital transcriptome of breast cancer

GW Cancer Research Team in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, in the School of Medicine and…    

Radiation treatment transforms breast cancer cells into cancer stem cells

Breast cancer stem cells are thought to be the sole source of tumor recurrence and are known to…    

First prospective analysis links breast and pancreatic cancer risk with lynch syndrome

A new prospective study of patients with Lynch syndrome – an inherited disorder of cancer susceptibility caused by…    

Enhancing the effectiveness of a breast cancer treatment

Breast cancers expressing the protein HER2 have a particularly poor prognosis. Treatment with trastuzumab (Herceptin) benefits some patients…    

Nanotube Therapy Takes Aim at Breast Cancer Stem Cells

Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center researchers have again proven that injecting multiwalled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs) into tumors and…