Radiation therapy may be used to shrink or kill cancer cells. Radiation may be directed at part or all of your breast or placed inside your body, near the cancer. Radiation therapy may be used with other treatments, such as medicines or surgery. Chemotherapy medicines are used to kill cancer...
Breast cancer is the most common malignancy in women, accounting for about 270,000 cases a year. The average woman has about a 12% chance of developing breast cancer.
Some cancer cells are conceptually similar to the stem cells as they can self-renew and generate bulk populations of nontumorigenic cells. Two models have been proposed to explain the cell of origin of breast cancer and involve either the reprogramming of differentiated mammary cells or the ...
What do I need to know about a core needle breast biopsy (CNBB)? A CNBB is a procedure to remove a sample of fluid or tissue from your breast. The samples are sent to a lab and tested for cancer or infection. The needle used in a core needle biopsy is larger than the one used...
Immediate and long-term health needs of patients, including preventive care and screening services, are receiving increasing attention. A question still unresolved is whether breast cancer survivors should receive mammographic surveillance in the clinical or screening setting and, thus, whether they should...
breast cancer screening and diagnosis,25medical record studies are needed to examine the validity of biopsy codes. Some older women may have been screened by programs such as the National Breast and Cervical Cancer Early Detection Program, so their follow-up procedures may not have been included ...
If you’ve had amastectomybecause ofbreast cancer, you may choose to have reconstructiveplastic surgery. It can restore balance between the twobreastsby replacingskin, breast tissue, and the removed nipple. The amount of reconstruction will depend on the mastectomy and the width, size, and locati...
The results from whole exome sequencing (WES) on 47 samples, taken from a subset of 338 patients as part of the Angiosarcoma Project in the USA and Canada, reveal a higher frequency of PIK3CA mutations in breast cancer compared to other carcinomas. This implies that PI3Kα inhibitors, ...
I was a mom to twin kindergartners and had just turned 34 when a breast CANCER diagnosis completely changed my life...
Here we show that, shortly after induction of EMT and while cells are still epithelial, ZEB1 modulates ERα-mediated transcription induced by estrogen or cAMP signaling in breast cancer cells. Based on these findings and our ex vivo and xenograft results, we suggest that the functional ...