News tagged with breast tissue

Scientists use an old theory to discover new targets in the fight against breast cancer

Reviving a theory first proposed in the late 1800s that the development of organs in the normal embryo and the development of cancers are related, scientists at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies have ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Feb 07, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Researchers discover critical rotational motion in cells

In a study that holds major implications for breast cancer research as well as basic cell biology, scientists with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have discovered a rotational motion ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Jan 26, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Parabens in breast tissue not limited to women who have used underarm products

New research into the potential link between parabens and breast cancer has found traces of the chemicals in breast tissue samples from all of the women in the study. Parabens are commonly used as preservatives in cosmetics, ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Jan 12, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Researchers find malignancy-risk gene signature for early-stage non-small cell lung cancer

A malignancy-risk gene signature developed for breast cancer has been found to have predictive and prognostic value for patients with early stage non-small cell lung cancer. The advancement was made by researchers at Moffitt ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Jan 06, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Advantages and motivations uncertain behind use of brachytherapy for breast cancer radiotherapy

Accelerated partial breast irradiation using brachytherapy (APBIb) for the treatment of breast cancer has been rapidly increasing over the last several years in the U.S. as an alternative to standard whole-breast irradiation ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Dec 16, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

New test to indicate likely spread or recurrence of breast cancer

(Medical Xpress) -- A Queensland University of Technology (QUT) PhD student has developed a potential breakthrough test for predicting the likelihood of the spread or return of breast cancer.

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Dec 14, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Research advances breast reconstruction

Breast reconstruction surgery will become both safer and more realistic thanks to research led by Queensland University of Technology (QUT) in Brisbane, Australia.

Medicine & Health / Other

created Dec 06, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers train computer to evaluate breast cancer

Since 1928, the way breast cancer characteristics are evaluated and categorized has remained largely unchanged. It is done by hand, under a microscope. Pathologists examine the tumors visually and score them according to ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Nov 09, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Кesearchers examine 21-year series of nipple sparing mastectomy cases and find no cancers

A new study suggests some women needing a lumpectomy or mastectomy to treat their breast cancer have another potential option that is safe and effective, say researchers at Georgetown. They say the procedure known as a nipple ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Oct 27, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Through-the-nipple breast cancer therapy shows promise in early tests

Delivering anticancer drugs into breast ducts via the nipple is highly effective in animal models of early breast cancer, and has no major side effects in human patients, according to a report by Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Oct 26, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

The role of fat in assessing breast cancer risk

It is known that a high proportion of dense breast tissue, as seen with a mammogram, is associated with a high risk of breast cancer. But the role of non-dense fat tissue in the breast is less clear. New research published ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Oct 26, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Will my breast cancer spread? Discovery may predict probability of metastasis

Researchers from Huntsman Cancer Institute (HCI) at the University of Utah have discovered a new way to model human breast cancer that could lead to new tools for predicting which breast cancers will spread and new ways to ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Oct 23, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Cell movement provides clues to aggressive breast cancer

Researchers from the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center have identified a specific molecule that alters how breast cancer cells move. This affects the cells' ability to spread or metastasize to distant parts ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Oct 03, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Knockout of protein prevents colon tumor formation in mice

A protein that regulates cell differentiation in normal tissue may play a different role in colon and breast cancer, activating proliferation of damaged cells, according to researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Sep 29, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Not all women choose reconstruction after mastectomy; the options are many

It had taken some years for Nicole McLean to embrace her God-given breasts, ample at size H cups. So when, at 39, she was diagnosed with stage 3 breast cancer and told, despite her adamant protests, that mastectomy was the ...

Medicine & Health / Other

created Sep 26, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Breast

The breast is the upper ventral region of an animal’s torso, particularly that of mammals, including human beings. The breasts of a female primate’s body contain the mammary glands, which secrete milk used to feed infants.

Both men and women develop breasts from the same embryological tissues. However, at puberty female sex hormones, mainly estrogens, promote breast development, which does not happen with men. As a result women's breasts become more prominent than men's.

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