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Teenager Unlocks Potential Pathways for Breast Cancer Treatments, Wins Intel Science Talent Search

Dylan — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 01:18:28 +0000

Teenager Unlocks Potential Pathways for Breast Cancer Treatments, Wins Intel Science Talent Search Nithin Tumma of Fort Gratiot, Mich. Wins $100,000 Award from the Intel Foundation

WASHINGTON, Mar 13, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) — –NEWS HIGHLIGHTS

–Nithin Tumma, whose research could lead to less toxic and more effective breast cancer treatments, received the top [...]

Vaccine for breast cancer ‘in 3 years’

Dylan — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 01:45:27 +0000

Vaccine for breast cancer ‘in 3 years’

Published: 13 Dec 2011

A BREAST cancer vaccine could be ready in THREE YEARS after “exciting” trial results.

A jab that trains immune systems to destroy tumours worked in 90 PER CENT of cases in lab tests.

It forces antibodies to zoom in on the coating that surrounds cancers and [...]

Inflammatory Marker May Predict Breast Ca Outcomes

Dylan — Sat, 03 Dec 2011 19:01:25 +0000

Published: June 03, 2011

Women who have high levels of C-reactive protein (CRP) at the time of breast cancer diagnosis may have worse outcomes, researchers say.

Those with the greatest concentrations of the inflammatory marker had significantly reduced overall and disease-free survival and a higher risk of death from breast cancer than did those with [...]

FDA warns: Thermogram is no mammogram

Dylan — Sat, 03 Dec 2011 18:59:23 +0000

Published: June 3, 2011 Updated: 9:33 a.m.

The controversy over mammography’s effectiveness at finding breast cancer, and whether women under 50 should even get them regularly, has opened the door to alternative detection methods.

One trendy innovation is thermography, which uses infrared imaging to display temperature changes in the body, depending on blood flow. Here’s an e-mail I [...]

C-reactive Protein Levels Predict Breast Cancer Survival Rates

Dylan — Sat, 03 Dec 2011 18:57:24 +0000

Article Date: 02 Jun 2011 – 17:00 PDT

Levels of C-reactive protein (CRP) are increased in response to acute inflammation, infection and tissue damage. There are also reports that CRP levels are elevated because of cancer. New research published in BioMed Central’s open access journal Breast Cancer Research shows that elevated CRP levels are predictive of [...]

Drug Halts Growth of Stubborn Breast Cancer Cells

Dylan — Sat, 03 Dec 2011 18:56:10 +0000

Jun 2, 2011 | 2:32 PM ET

The tricky breast cancer cells that scientists say survive through chemotherapy treatments and sprout new cancer growths elsewhere in the body may soon meet their match.

A new study shows that these cells, called breast cancer stem cells, rely on a certain molecular pathway to survive, and that [...]

Scientists Testing New Drug for Triple-Negative Breast Cancer

Dylan — Sat, 03 Dec 2011 18:54:36 +0000

Published June 02, 2011

Scientists will soon begin testing a new drug for its potential to treat triple-negative breast cancer, The Telegraph reported.

Researchers at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston recently identified a pool of 15 genes associated with accelerating the growth of this aggressive disease.

The discovery will now allow scientists to begin clinical trials on a [...]

Treatment for aggressive breast cancer a step closer

Dylan — Sat, 03 Dec 2011 18:51:02 +0000

Thursday, June 2, 2011

PETER CAVE: Basal breast cancer is a particularly aggressive form of the disease.

It’s typically found in younger women, and unlike other types of breast cancer there’s no targeted treatment for it, so about all doctors can offer sufferers is chemotherapy.

But Australian researchers now say they’ve produced the most conclusive [...]

Triple-negative breast cancer: drug trial to start

Dylan — Sat, 03 Dec 2011 18:49:11 +0000

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

Dylan — Sat, 03 Dec 2011 18:45:50 +0000

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 [...]