Technology could enhance accuracy of breast biopsy
...of Wisconsin-Madison, will be a "third eye" during breast biopsies and can increase the chance for an accurate clinical diagnosis of breast cancer. Doctors currently use X-ray or ultrasound - two-dimensional pictures - to guide the biopsy n...Chemoradioimmunotherapy for advanced breast cancer: hope for the future?
...uccessful, and novel, technique to kill metastatic breast cancer cells by circumventing their chemo- and rad...cer Research today (Tuesday 6 July 2004). Advanced breast cancer, with metastases to lung and bone, has a very poor prognosis and current treatment protocols ...New compound 'highly efficacious' at reducing human tumour growth
...tive models e.g. advanced, anti-hormone refractory breast and prostate tumours. "This new compound is highly efficacious at inhibiting tumour growth and works by acting on two separate mechanisms that are involved in the development and perpetuation of human cancer cells", said Dr. Siemeister. The compound...Chemical Society announces EPA awards for environmentally friendly technology
...aclitaxel, a cancer drug used to treat ovarian and breast cancer. Paclitaxel was first isolated from the bark of the Pacific yew tree. Harvesting the bark meant sacrificing the tree, which provides habitat for the endangered spotted owl. Bristol-Myers Squibb designed a semi-synthetic route to paclitaxel, us...USC researcher named General Motors Cancer Research Scholar
...ute to the development and progression of sporadic breast cancers. (Sporadic breast cancers are those that are not directly associated with a specific genetic mutation.) Rice's work at...Early predictor of breast cancer aggressiveness
... to make early decisions on the best treatment for breast cancer, thanks to research published in Breast Can...nvolved in the adhesion of cells is less active in breast tumors with a poor prognosis than those that are less aggressive, researchers found. Measuring the ...NIH awards grant for cancer research to the University of Wisconsin
...o address the causes, prevention, and treatment of breast cancer. Last year, the Secretary announced a simil...4, there will be an estimated 215,000 new cases of breast cancer in women. While researchers have made great strides in unraveling the mysteries of this disea...New insight into cancer metastasis
...e research team headed by Weinberg describes how a breast carcinoma in mice misappropriates a protein called...nds of mice, the mice developed primary, localized breast tumors--but the tumors were unable to metastasize. Furthermore, their study showed that Twist caused...COPD is forgotten killer, says University of Toronto professor
...OPD) will kill more women in Canada this year than breast cancer, says a University of Toronto researcher. I...fundraising energy is devoted to COPD, compared to breast cancer, given that COPD is expected to end the lives of more women this year in Canada." COPD is the...European Commission approves Herceptin + Taxotere as 1st-line therapy in HER2-positive breast cancer
...s a first-line therapy in HER2-positive metastatic breast cancer patients who have not yet received chemotherapy for their disease. HER2-positive breast cancer patients suffer from a particularly aggressive form of breast cancer which traditionally has ...Other highlights in the June 16 JNCI
...gulate estrogen metabolism are not associated with breast cancer risk. Several studies have suggested that ...rmones, particularly estrogen, are associated with breast cancer risk, but it is not clear whether changes in the genes that control these levels are associat...Study investigates breast cancer resistance to tamoxifen and possible way to reverse it
...d a possible mechanism for tamoxifen resistance in breast cancer and provides evidence that another cancer d...n reduce the risk of death for women with invasive breast cancer by about 15% over 10 to 15 years, many women do not receive any benefit from the drug. Even a...JCI table of contents, 15 June 2004
...stric, and pancreatic cancers, and in about 50% of breast cancers, and 70% of nonsmall cell lung cancers. In order to develop such a vaccine, Reisfeld and colleagues had to construct a special mouse that expresses both the human carcinoembryonic antigen, so the mice would not have an immune response against...Scientists characterize new breast tumor subtypes with poor clinical outcomes
...lly distinct subtype of estrogen receptor negative breast tumor. Because this tumor subtype is an aggressive... the roughly 15 percent of women with this type of breast cancer have a poorer prognosis than women with other forms of the disease. On June 14, at the an...Breast cancer patients failed by treatment with taxol and taxotere respond to abraxane
...active and well tolerated in women with metastatic breast cancer whose disease had progressed while they wer...rican Bioscience, Inc., had progressive metastatic breast cancer while being treated with Taxol or Taxotere in the metastatic setting, or had a relapse within...APP reports Abraxane(TM) is active in breast cancer patients who failed taxol or taxotere
...ase II study of ABRAXANE in patients with advanced breast cancer whose disease had progressed while they wer... included 106 patients with progressive metastatic breast cancer whose disease had progressed while being treated with TAXOL or Taxotere in the metastatic set...Researchers develop blood test that can detect genetic changes in progressive breast cancer
...in gene found in circulating cells associated with breast cancer. If further clinical studies bear out its effectiveness, researchers say the blood test could be used as a standard operating procedure to monitor genetic changes for which a treatment is available. "Cancer is a moving ...Gene expression ratio identifies risk of recurrence in breast cancer patients receiving tamoxifen
...asurement of the expression levels of two genes in breast cancer tissue appears to identify tumors that are ...strogen and its receptor protein, is used to treat breast cancers that express the estrogen receptor. However, only two thirds of these patients have a prolon...Margaret Foti to be honored for significant contributions to cancer care
...earch; Don Shula, whose foundation is dedicated to breast cancer research; retired Army Gen. Norman Schwartzkopf; and renowned cancer physicians Kathleen Foley, John Durant and Harold Freeman....Albany high school student adds to understanding of breast cancer gene
... to a gene called BRCA-1 contributes to hereditary breast cancer. Meaghan Figge, a sophomore at Albany ...g the likely sites for BRCA-1 mutations leading to breast cancer. Figge is a student member of the American Association for Cancer Research, which publishes C...