News tagged with negative breast
ER/PR negative tumors associated with insurance status
Nov 18, 2008 |
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African-American women are at a higher risk for ER/PR negative breast cancer. A new study, to be presented at the American Association for Cancer Research's Seventh Annual International Conference on Frontiers in Cancer Prevention ...
Researcher finds most triple-negative breast cancers express muc-1 target
Dec 12, 2008 |
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Research out of the Ireland Cancer Center of University Hospitals Case Medical Center has found that the vast majority of triple negative breast cancers express the MUC-1 target. This first-of-its-kind finding, presented ...
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Five-year U.K. breast cancer trial starts
Jan 16, 2008 |
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Two British charities are joining to initiate the first U.K.-based clinical trial for women with a specific aggressive form of breast cancer.
A diagnosis of triple-negative breast cancer doesn't always mean cancer spread
Apr 11, 2008 |
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Triple-negative breast cancers are a heterogeneous group and may not always be associated with lymph node spread, a new study shows.
Risk of aggressive breast cancer subtype three times higher for black women
Mar 25, 2009 |
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Lifestyle, age and weight have all been considered as risk factors for breast cancer. Now a study published in the open access journal Breast Cancer Research has found that even taking these factors into consideration, black ...
Study examines association between caffeine consumption and breast cancer risk
Oct 13, 2008 |
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Caffeine consumption does not appear to be associated with overall breast cancer risk, according to a report in the October 13 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine. However, there is a possibility of increased risk for wo ...
Long-term tamoxifen use increases risk of an aggressive, hard to treat type of second breast cancer
Aug 25, 2009 |
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While long-term tamoxifen use among breast cancer survivors decreases their risk of developing the most common, less aggressive type of second breast cancer, such use is associated with a more than four-fold increased risk ...
Breast cancer etiology may vary by subtype
May 21, 2009 |
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Women's reproductive and lifestyle characteristics can be linked to different invasive breast cancer subtypes. Data on 2544 breast cancer cases, presented in the open access journal Breast Cancer Research, suggests that t ...
HER2 levels may aid in treatment selection for metastatic breast cancer
Dec 02, 2008 |
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Findings published in the December 1, 2008, issue of Clinical Cancer Research, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research, show lapatinib benefits women with HER2-positive breast cancer, while women with H ...
Risk of breast cancer and a single-nucleotide polymorphism
Jul 02, 2009 |
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The single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) known as 2q35-rs13387042 is associated with increased risk of estrogen receptor (ER) -positive and -negative breast cancer, according to a study published online July 1 in the Journal of ...
Herceptin targets breast cancer stem cells
Jul 09, 2008 |
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A gene that is overexpressed in 20 percent of breast cancers increases the number of cancer stem cells, the cells that fuel a tumor's growth and spread, according to a new study from the University of Michigan Comprehensive ...
Tamoxifen chemoprevention tied to early detection of breast cancer
Oct 07, 2008 |
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The drug tamoxifen does not prevent or treat estrogen receptor (ER) negative breast cancer, but it can make the disease easier to find, researchers report in the Oct. 1 Journal of the National Cancer Institute.
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