Estrogen a more powerful breast cancer culprit than we realized
May 17, 2023 · A Harvard Medical School study shows the sex hormone estrogen — thus far thought to be only a fuel for breast cancer growth — can directly cause tumor-driving genomic rearrangements.
Breast cancer deaths in the US continue to fall, but new report …
Oct 1, 2024 · CNN — Despite a continuous decline in the rate of breast cancer deaths in the United States, the incidence of the disease has increased, especially among younger ages, and significant racial...
Targeted therapy shows benefit for people with advanced breast cancer ...
Dec 8, 2022 · CNN — An experimental treatment shows promise for people with the most common form of advanced-stage breast cancer, according to results from a Phase 3 clinical trial. The details of the trial...
FDA expands approval of breast cancer drug Kisqali to ... - NBC News
Sep 17, 2024 · The FDA expanded the approval of Kisqali, a drug for metastatic breast cancer, to treat patients with earlier stage cancer, Novartis said. The drug was found to reduce the risk of a patient's...
Breast Cancer Drug Trial Results in ‘Unheard-Of’ Survival
Jun 7, 2022 · The clinical trial, sponsored by the pharmaceutical companies Daiichi Sankyo and AstraZeneca and led by Dr. Shanu Modi of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, involved 557 patients with...
WHO launches new roadmap on breast cancer
Feb 3, 2023 · The World Health Organization (WHO) released a new Global Breast Cancer Initiative Framework today providing a roadmap to attain the targets to save 2.5 million lives from breast cancer by 2040.
A wearable ultrasound scanner could detect breast cancer earlier
Jul 28, 2023 · In hopes of improving the survival rate for breast cancer patients, MIT researchers designed a wearable ultrasound device that could allow women to detect tumors when they are still in early stages.
Breast cancer - Latest research and news | Nature
Oct 30, 2024 · Breast cancer articles from across Nature Portfolio. Breast cancer is caused by the development of malignant cells in the breast. The malignant cells originate in the lining of the milk...
Experimental immunotherapy targets metastatic breast cancer
Feb 1, 2022 · Many people with metastatic breast cancer can mount an immune reaction against their tumors, the study found, a prerequisite for this type of immunotherapy, which relies on what are called tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes (TILs).
Targeting HER2-positive breast cancer: advances and future …
Nov 7, 2022 · The long-sought discovery of HER2 as an actionable and highly sensitive therapeutic target was a major breakthrough for the treatment of highly aggressive HER2-positive breast cancer, leading...