breast cancer Archive — Page 19 of 23

June 27, 2013

Cancer’s Jekyll and Hyde

By diana
Smiling child wearing a yellow Los Angeles Lakers basketball jersey and holding a basketball outdoors beside a hoop.
June 27, 2013

Seven Survivors

By diana
False-color medical scan showing a side-view, oval-shaped cross-section with a dense multicolored region against a black background.
June 24, 2013

Predicting cancer’s response to therapy

Researchers are developing imaging methods to predict patient outcome early in the course of chemotherapy for breast cancer – to allow clinicians to adjust therapy for patients who are not responding.

By Leigh MacMillan
Aerial night view of a crowded, congested intersection in China, with cars, vans, buses, and taxis packed in multiple directions under streetlights.
June 20, 2013

Disease linked to cell traffic jams

Diseases associated with mutations and changes in expression of the protein caveolin may result from faulty trafficking of the protein to the cell surface.

By Leigh MacMillan
Two researchers in white lab coats pose in a laboratory beside workbenches and shelves of bottles and equipment.
March 21, 2013

Breast cancer study explores therapy to slow recurrence

Many patients with triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) have recurrence of their disease after an initial response to chemotherapy because the cancer cells have become resistant to treatment. TNBC has a lower survival rate because of this pattern of resistance and there are no targeted agents to treat this form of breast cancer.

By Vanderbilt Health News
March 12, 2013

News from Around the Cancer Center

By diana