ARE CANCERS TREATABLE ?
Are cancers treatable? This is one the numerous questions people usually ask when they are confronted with the diagnosis. It is not unconnected to the morbidity and mortality often associated … Read More
Tag: Breast cancer
Sustained Weight Loss Linked To Reduced Breast Cancer Risk – Study Says
A large new study which appeared in JNCI, researchers finds that women who lost weight after age 50 and kept it off had a lower risk of breast cancer than … Read More
Study Finds Lifestyle Changes Can Lower Breast Cancer Risk
While genetics, such as carrying BRCA gene mutations, play a role in who is more likely to get breast cancer, everyday lifestyle factors are involved, too. Research published in JAMA … Read More
Research: Thousands of breast cancer gene variants engineered and analyzed
Greg Findlay talks about saturation genome editing of BRCA1 at his thesis defense at the University of Washington School of Medicine. He is an M.D./Ph.D. student at the school. Credit: … Read More
TETRIS-LIKE PROGRAM COULD SPEED BREAST CANCER DETECTION
Researchers from the University of Adelaide’s Australian Institute for Machine Learning (AIML ) are developing a fully-automated medical image analysis program to detect breast tumours. The program uses a unique … Read More
Researchers identify new regulator in breast cancer cells
Triple-negative breast cancer is a particularly aggressive form of breast cancer. Here, important receptors are missing, which often serve as targets for treatments. Thus, these tumors are unlikely to respond … Read More