Posts Tagged ‘breast cancer’
Triple-negative breast cancers can adopt reversible state that is resistant to chemotherapy
Study finds triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) cells can develop resistance to frontline, or neoadjuvant, chemotherapy not by acquiring permanent adaptations, …
Read Full ArticleImmune cells key to predicting cancer outcomes, research suggests
Scientists have identified key changes in immune cells within cancerous tumors that could help improve the development of treatments. …
Read Full ArticleResearchers discovered a new targetable vulnerability in breast cancer cells
Uncontrolled growth of cancer arises from the imbalanced regulation of cell division and programmed cell death. To stimulate the growth, cancer cells can induce multiple signaling receptors; …
Read Full ArticleFree fatty acids rewire cells to promote obesity-related breast cancer
Scientists at the University of Illinois have found that free fatty acids in the blood appear to boost proliferation and growth of breast cancer cells. …
Read Full ArticleBreast cancer cells rely on pyruvate to spread to new tissues
Most patients who die of breast cancer die of metastasis, the process by which cancer cells spread to other organs of the body. Cancer cells alter their metabolism to grow …
Read Full ArticleThe sneaky way estrogen drives brain metastasis in non-estrogen-dependent breast cancers
Triple-negative breast cancers are more likely than other breast cancer types to metastasize and are especially likely to go the brain in younger women. …
Read Full Article‘Cellular barcoding’ reveals how breast cancer spreads
A cutting-edge technique called cellular barcoding has been used to tag, track and pinpoint cells responsible for the spread of breast cancer from the main tumor into the blood and other organs. …
Read Full ArticleDDT exposure tied to breast cancer risk for all women through age 54
All women exposed to high levels of DDT are at increased risk for breast cancer through age 54, but the timing of cancer risk depends on when they were first exposed, …
Read Full ArticleMore than half a million breast cancer deaths averted in the US over three decades
Latest U.S. estimates indicate that since 1989, hundreds of thousands of women’s lives have been saved by mammography and improvements in breast cancer treatment. …
Read Full ArticleCombination treatment, diabetes drug and immunotherapy, may help to fight breast cancer
MYC, a gene with high cancer-initiating potential, is overexpressed in over 40% of breast cancers. While MYC programs breast cancer cells to build more macromolecules …
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