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April 17, 2024

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AI-Assisted Breast-Cancer Screening May Reduce Unnecessary Testing

Apr. 10, 2024 — Researchers showed that AI assistance potentially could improve breast-cancer screening by reducing the number of false positives without missing true ...

Less Extensive Breast Cancer Surgery Results in Fewer Swollen Arms

Apr. 4, 2024 — It is possible to leave most of the lymph nodes in the armpit, even if one or two of them have metastases larger than two millimeters. This is shown in a trial enrolling women from five countries. The results open up for gentler surgery for patients ...

'Exhausted' Immune Cells in Healthy Women Could Be Target for Breast Cancer Prevention

Mar. 28, 2024 — People carrying BRCA1 and BRCA2 gene mutations are at high risk of developing breast and ovarian cancer. Researchers have found that changes occur in the immune cells of breast tissue in carriers of ...

In the Fight Against Breast Cancer, Researchers Identify Malignancy Hibernation as the Next Battleground

Mar. 20, 2024 — There is a surprising dearth of research about how breast cancer cells can go dormant, spread and then resurface years or even decades later, according to a new review of in vitro breast cancer ...

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GPS Nanoparticle Platform Precisely Delivers Therapeutic Payload to Cancer Cells

Mar. 11, 2024 — A newly developed 'GPS nanoparticle' injected intravenously can home in on cancer cells to deliver a genetic punch to the protein implicated in tumor ...

A Smart Molecule Beats the Mutation Behind Most Pancreatic Cancer

Mar. 5, 2024 — Researchers have designed a candidate drug that could help make pancreatic cancer, which is almost always fatal, a treatable, perhaps even curable, ...

Annual Breast Cancer Screening Beginning at 40 Saves Lives

Feb. 20, 2024 — Annual breast cancer screening beginning at age 40 and continuing to at least age 79 results in the highest reduction in mortality with minimal ...

Hand-Held Biosensor Makes Breast Cancer Screening Fast, Affordable, and Accurate

Feb. 13, 2024 — Researchers report successful results from a hand-held breast cancer screening device that can detect breast cancer biomarkers from a tiny sample of ...

Strongest Contender in Decades in Fight Against Breast Cancer

Feb. 12, 2024 — For decades, hormonal treatment of breast cancer has been going in one direction -- blocking estrogen. Now a global study has discovered there may be another, less toxic way to defeat the most common ...

Novel Technique Has Potential to Transform Breast Cancer Detection

Feb. 9, 2024 — An innovative breast imaging technique provides high sensitivity for detecting cancer while significantly reducing the likelihood of false positive results. Researchers said the technique has the ...

Targeting Annexin-A1 Can Halt Cancer Cell Growth

Jan. 19, 2024 — A new study highlights the effectiveness of MDX-124, the first therapeutic drug to target annexin-A1, a protein which is overexpressed in several cancer types and promotes tumor ...

Metastatic Breast Cancer Treatments Have Aided Decline in Deaths

Jan. 17, 2024 — Treatment of metastatic disease is responsible for nearly one-third of the decrease in annual deaths from breast cancer from 1975 to 2019, according to a new ...

Early Detection of Breast Cancer: Study Confirms the Effectiveness of a New Approach

Jan. 17, 2024 — Early detection of disease is considered positive -- but what if it finds 'too much'? While early diagnosis can improve the chances of recovery, ...

Study Pinpoints Breast Cancer 'Cells of Origin' in High-Risk Women

Jan. 16, 2024 — Australian scientists have pinpointed likely 'cells of origin', the source cells that can grow into breast cancer, in women carrying a faulty BRCA2 gene who are at high risk of developing the ...

Researchers Develop Deep Learning Model to Predict Breast Cancer

Mar. 19, 2024 — Researchers have developed a new, interpretable artificial intelligence (AI) model to predict 5-year breast cancer risk from mammograms, according to a new ...

Method Improves Detection of Potential Therapeutic Tumor Targets in Human Biopsies

Jan. 16, 2024 — Researchers report the development of a methodology to detect small amounts of potential tumor therapeutic targets, specificacally enzymes called kinases, that are present in biopsy samples. ...

Energy-Starved Breast Cancer Cells Consume Their Surroundings for Fuel

Jan. 16, 2024 — Breast cancer cells ingest and consume the matrix surrounding them to overcome starvation, according to a new study. The finding elucidates a previously unknown mechanism of cancer cell survival, and ...

Natural Compounds Derived from Soy and Other Plants Reduce Breast Cancer Recurrence and Improve Survival

Jan. 10, 2024 — Soy compounds called isoflavones are among the plant-derived compounds that may significantly reduce the risk of breast cancer recurrence or death, according to a new ...

Epigenetic Therapy Shows Promise for Endocrine-Resistant Breast Cancer

Jan. 9, 2024 — Researchers have revealed a reason why endocrine resistance develops in breast cancers and how to potentially treat it in ...

Reprogrammed Fat Cells Support Tumor Growth

Jan. 3, 2024 — Mutations of the tumor suppressor p53 not only have a growth-promoting effect on the cancer cells themselves, but also influence the cells in the tumor's microenvironment. Scientists have now ...

Manipulation of Gut Microbiota With Flaxseed Could Reduce Breast Cancer Risk

Dec. 7, 2023 — A new study demonstrates that the human gut microbiome may be a factor in breast ...

Early Life Gene Epimutation May Cause Breast Cancer

Dec. 7, 2023 — Research reveals that around 20 per cent of all cases of the most severe form of breast cancer may arise from the small group of normal tissue cells carrying an epimutation of a specific gene, called ...

Blood Hormone Levels Key to Identifying Which Post-Menopausal Women Will Benefit Most from Taking Anastrozole to Prevent Breast Cancer

Dec. 6, 2023 — has found that hormone levels, measured through blood tests, are an important indicator of whether women will benefit from recently licensed medication for the prevention of breast ...

AI May Spare Breast Cancer Patients Unnecessary Treatments

Nov. 27, 2023 — A new AI (Artificial Intelligence) tool may make it possible to spare breast cancer patients unnecessary chemotherapy treatments by using a more precise method of predicting their outcomes, reports a ...

Urban Environmental Exposures Drive Increased Breast Cancer Incidence

Nov. 20, 2023 — An analysis of breast cancer showed that the state’s urban counties had higher overall incidences of disease than rural counties, especially at early stages upon ...

Researchers Develop Gel to Deliver Cancer Drugs for Solid Tumors

Nov. 13, 2023 — Intratumoral therapy -- in which cancer drugs are injected directly into tumors -- is a promising treatment option for solid cancers but has shown limited success in clinical trials due to an ...

Side-Effect Avoiding Treatment Shows Early Promise Against Breast Cancer in Mice

Nov. 9, 2023 — New experimental evidence suggests that substances known as narrow-spectrum Wnt signaling inhibitors -- which could have fewer side effects than other related substances -- are capable of suppressing ...

Reducing Vitamin B5 Slows Breast Cancer Growth in Mice

Nov. 9, 2023 — Researchers have discovered that breast cancer cells expressing a cancer-driving gene heavily rely on vitamin B5 to grow and ...

Higher Risk of Breast Cancer in Women With False Positive Mammography Result

Nov. 2, 2023 — Women who receive a false positive mammography result are more likely to develop breast cancer over the subsequent 20 years, report researchers. The risk is highest for women aged between 60 and 75 ...

Nanoparticle Vaccine Could Curb Cancer Metastasis to Lungs by Targeting a Protein

Oct. 18, 2023 — Engineers have developed an experimental vaccine that could prevent the spread of metastatic cancers to the lungs. Its success lies in targeting a protein known to play a central role in cancer ...

Empathetic Cancer Clinicians Promote Psychological Well-Being in Breast Cancer Patients

Oct. 16, 2023 — Clinicians who show more empathy promote better psychological health among breast cancer patients, according to a new study examining how oncology doctors facilitate psychological ...

New 3D-Printed Tumor Model Enables Faster, Less Expensive and Less Painful Cancer Treatment

Oct. 16, 2023 — A team combined cutting-edge bioprinting techniques with synthetic structures or microfluidic chips. The method will help lab researchers more accurately understand heterogeneous tumors: Tumors with ...

Women Living in More Walkable Neighborhoods Have Lower Rates of Obesity-Related Cancers

Oct. 4, 2023 — Residing in a more walkable neighborhood protects against the risk of overall obesity-related cancers in women, specifically postmenopausal breast cancer, but also ovarian cancer, endometrial cancer, ...

Breakthrough in the Fight Against Resistance in Metastatic Breast Cancer

Oct. 2, 2023 — A team of researchers has discovered that dormant tumor cells surviving chemotherapy can be targeted through the inhibition of a specific protein called P-glycoprotein (P-gp). This discovery opens up ...