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...
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...
Did you ever wonder if surviving from the diagnosis of breast cancer is enough, or can you transcend to another level and improve your life in many different areas?
When I get up to walk and hobble like a 90 year old because my daily pills cause bone and joint pain. When I get a random pain anywhere in my body that lingers for more than a day and I think my cancer has spread. When I look in the mirror and my hair is a completely different...
Cancer-associated fibroblasts (CAFs) in the tumor microenvironment (TME) interact closely with cancer cells to promote tumor development. Downregulation of SPIN90 in CAFs has been reported to facilitate breast cancer progression, but the underlying mecha
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...
I should probably insert here – no matter how dark or paralyzing the cancer or the treatment side effects have been I have had the joy of quite literally bathing in light showered upon me from friends and cousins near and far. They’ve lifted me up on their shoulders (picturing Rudy here...
I call it Megsie’s Musings at Morgan Falls Park. As I gear up for another work week and then off to Chicago for ASCO (like Vegas but for oncology), I know my pockets of joy will be authentic because I’ll see some of my closest friends in the cancer space. Who knows, maybe I...
Although the IFP is relatively uniform throughout the breast tumor, it decreases significantly at its edge [25]. This pressure gradient triggers outward convection, creating a barrier to effective drug delivery [26,27] and influencing breast cancer cell behavior (see also the “Drag forces” sect...
Chitinase-like proteins (CLPs) play a key role in immunosuppression under inflammatory conditions such as cancer. CLPs are enzymatically inactive and become neutralized upon binding of their natural ligand chitin, potentially reducing CLP-driven immunosu