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Older cancer patients taking multiple medications are at higher risk of hospitalization

As adults age, they accumulate a number of medications for chronic conditions. Older patients take anywhere between 5-15 medications per year, which increases the risk that some of the drugs will counteract each other.

21 Mar 2020

Novel MRI contrast agent for early detection of brain metastases

A group of researchers led by Leif Schroeder from the Leibniz-Forschungsinstitut fuer Molekulare Pharmakologie have found a way to detect metastases in certain types of cancer in the brain at an early stage, using only minimal amounts of contrast agent.

19 Mar 2020

Bacteria-trapping protein may contribute to breast cancer metastasis

The protein peptidyl arginine deiminase 4 (PAD4), which enables some immune cells to trap bacteria, promoted breast cancer metastasis in mice when expressed in cancer cells, according to data published in Molecular Cancer Research, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research.

19 Mar 2020

Statins may protect against heart damage caused by breast cancer therapies

Statins are widely used to lower cholesterol and prevent heart disease and related deaths, but can they also help guard against heart damage caused by certain breast cancer therapies?

19 Mar 2020

Targeting PI3Kβ alone and with combination therapy in PTEN-deficient tumors

The cover for issue 11 of Oncotarget features Figure 6, "Effects of AZD8186 in combination with anti-PD1 on syngeneic models," by Owusu-Brackett, et al.

18 Mar 2020

Trial of cancer drug OxaliTex promises lower toxicity and more robust action

Preclinical trials indicate that a drug candidate called OxaliTex can stop the growth of cancer cells completely. OxaliTex appears to be more potent than many other common chemotherapy drugs, with less toxicity and less rapidly counteracted by mechanisms of drug resistance. The study was reported in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences in March 2020.

16 Mar 2020

Technology effectively detects harsh side effect of breast cancer treatment

Some 20 percent of breast cancer survivors will suffer from lymphedema, a potentially severe side effect of treatment that makes arms swell with lymph. The disease is often overlooked, but commercially available app-based technology now makes early detection easier, allowing for proactive treatment.

16 Mar 2020

MicroRNA dysregulation has critical impacts on development, inflammation and cancer development

Oncotarget Volume 11, Issue 10 reported that dysregulation of noncoding micro RNA molecules has been associated with immune cell activation in the context of Helicobacter pylori-induced gastric inflammation as well as carcinogenesis, but also with downregulation of mismatch repair genes, and may interfere with immune checkpoint proteins that lead to the overexpression of antigens on gastric tumor cells.

13 Mar 2020

Researchers uncover clues to how statins kill cancer cells

More than 35 million Americans take statin drugs daily to lower their blood cholesterol levels. Now, in experiments with human cells in the laboratory, researchers at Johns Hopkins Medicine have added to growing evidence that the ubiquitous drug may kill cancer cells and have uncovered clues to how they do it.

12 Mar 2020

Weight gain could lower woman’s chances of getting breast cancer before menopause

Gaining weight from early adulthood is linked to a lower risk of breast cancer before the menopause, a major global study of more than 600,000 women has found.

11 Mar 2020

New imaging agent illuminates cancerous tumors and surrounding cells

Scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have developed a new imaging agent that could let doctors identify not only multiple types of tumors but the surrounding normal cells that the cancer takes over and uses as a shield to protect itself from attempts to destroy it.

10 Mar 2020

Postmenopausal breast cancer and the benefit of genetic testing

A new study shows that genetic mutations could be detected in one in 40 women diagnosed with breast cancer before the age of 65 years. The study from Stanford researchers, titled "Prevalence of Pathogenic Variants in Cancer Susceptibility Genes Among Women With Postmenopausal Breast Cancer," was published as a research letter 10th March in the journal JAMA.

10 Mar 2020

NCCN publishes recommendations for assessing quality improvements in cancer care

The National Comprehensive Cancer Network has published a curated list of high-impact measures for assessing quality improvements in cancer care.

10 Mar 2020

Combination of anti-cancer nanodrugs with Intralipid enhances therapeutic efficacy

Pairing chemotherapy nanodrugs with a nutritional supplement can lessen devastating side-effects while reducing the amount of the expensive drugs needed to treat cancer according to a study from Carnegie Mellon University and Taiwan's National Health Research Institutes.

10 Mar 2020

A copper-binding protein influences breast cancer cell migration

Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, have shown that the Atox1 protein, found in breast cancer cells, participates in the process by which cancer cells metastasise.

10 Mar 2020

Building a 3D scaffolding to monitor tumor growth in real time and controlled environments

Building three-dimensional scaffolding to guide the growth of tumors in controlled environments, to monitor the evolution of each of their cells in real time and to record the release of tumor metabolites and other indicators of cell activity under different conditions.

9 Mar 2020

New discovery could lead to better strategies for preventing breast cancer metastasis

New discovery in breast cancer could lead to better strategies for preventing the spread of cancer cells to other organs in the body, effectively reducing mortality in breast cancer patients.

8 Mar 2020

No evidence related to transferability of biomarker tests for decision-making on chemotherapy for breast cancer

Following a benefit assessment in 2016 and an addendum in 2018, the German Institute for Quality and Efficiency in Health Care has again examined biomarker-based tests for women with primary breast cancer.

7 Mar 2020

Organizers postpone the EBCC-12 conference in view of the spread of coronavirus

In view of the spread of coronavirus (COVID-19), and the stipulation from the Spanish Healthcare Ministry that Spanish healthcare workers should not attend national or international conferences, the organisers of the 12th European Breast Cancer Conference (EBCC-12) have taken the decision to postpone the conference, which was due to start on Wednesday 18 March in Barcelona, Spain.

6 Mar 2020

Sphingotec’s bio-ADM can reliably support physicians in identifying high-risk sepsis patients

Diagnostics company SphingoTec GmbH today reported on new data on the utility of endothelial function biomarker bioactive Adrenomedullin

5 Mar 2020

Breast Cancer News and Research

Latest Breast Cancer News and Research

Older cancer patients taking multiple medications are at higher risk of hospitalization

Novel MRI contrast agent for early detection of brain metastases

Bacteria-trapping protein may contribute to breast cancer metastasis

Statins may protect against heart damage caused by breast cancer therapies

Targeting PI3Kβ alone and with combination therapy in PTEN-deficient tumors

Trial of cancer drug OxaliTex promises lower toxicity and more robust action

Technology effectively detects harsh side effect of breast cancer treatment

MicroRNA dysregulation has critical impacts on development, inflammation and cancer development

Researchers uncover clues to how statins kill cancer cells

Weight gain could lower woman’s chances of getting breast cancer before menopause

New imaging agent illuminates cancerous tumors and surrounding cells

Postmenopausal breast cancer and the benefit of genetic testing

NCCN publishes recommendations for assessing quality improvements in cancer care

Combination of anti-cancer nanodrugs with Intralipid enhances therapeutic efficacy

A copper-binding protein influences breast cancer cell migration

Building a 3D scaffolding to monitor tumor growth in real time and controlled environments

New discovery could lead to better strategies for preventing breast cancer metastasis

No evidence related to transferability of biomarker tests for decision-making on chemotherapy for breast cancer

Organizers postpone the EBCC-12 conference in view of the spread of coronavirus

Sphingotec’s bio-ADM can reliably support physicians in identifying high-risk sepsis patients

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