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Triple-negative breast cancer: drug trial to start

6:30AM BST 02 Jun 2011

A drug for a particularly hard to treat form of breast cancer will soon be in clinical trials after scientists isolated the genes that spur its growth.

Triple-negative breast cancer is diagnosed in some 9,000 women a year in Britain – about a fifth of the total.

Patients do not [...]

Major breast cancer breakthrough made in Irish University

Published Wednesday, June 1, 2011, 7:39 AM

Trinity College scientists use new method to restrict tumors

Trinity College researchers believe they have made a major breakthrough in the treatment of breast cancer.

The Dublin college scientists have discovered that blocking a particular stress response can reduce the spread of breast cancer.

The research was based [...]

Diabetes drug may have cancer use

Published: May 31, 2011 at 8:03 PM

KINGSTON, Ontario, May 31 (UPI) — A class of diabetes drugs may activate a protein found to decrease malignancy and slow the spread of some breast cancer tumors, a Canadian researcher says.

Chris Nicol of Queen’s University in Ontario has been investigating a protein that the drugs utilize [...]

Beta-blockers tied to breast cancer survival

NEW YORK | Tue May 31, 2011 5:33pm EDT

(Reuters Health) – Women with breast cancer who take common blood pressure drugs may have better odds of surviving the disease, according to two preliminary studies.

In one study, women taking drugs known as beta-blockers survived longer without seeing the tumor return than those not on the medication. [...]