Sentences with phrase «aggressive breast cancer tumors»

Aggressive breast cancer tumors differentiated and took on cyst - like characteristics.

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«Study in early stage breast cancer shows that even small tumors can be aggressive.»

Triple - negative tumors are aggressive and more likely to metastasize than other breast cancers, and there is no effective treatment.

«By understanding how stress accelerates invasion in aggressive breast tumor cells, this work will inform future studies into whether beta - blockers could be a useful adjuvant therapy in the treatment of some aggressive breast cancers.»

The team chose to compare breast tissue from healthy individuals with tumor samples taken from breast cancer patients — including both primary tumors that had not spread from the breast to other body sites, and highly aggressive, metastatic tumors.

Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have discovered why breast cancer patients with dense breasts are more likely than others to develop aggressive tumors that spread.

Previous in vitro studies conducted by researchers in other countries showed that this molecule was able to reduce the multiplication and increase the mortality of cells from melanoma, the most aggressive type of skin cancer, as well as breast cancer and neuroblastoma, a tumor that typically affects patients aged 15 or younger.

It has been recognized that the more aggressive triple - negative breast cancer occurs more frequently in African American women, but no previous study has examined racial differences in tumor genotype and how they might contribute to the risk of cancer recurrence.

«In addition to having a higher prevalence of triple - negative breast cancers than Caucasian women — something that has been documented in previous studies — we found that African American women with breast cancer had a significantly higher prevalence of the TP53 driver mutation, basal tumor subtype and greater genomic diversity within tumors, all of which suggest more aggressive tumor biology,» says Tanya Keenan, MD, of the MGH Cancer Center, lead author of the cancer had a significantly higher prevalence of the TP53 driver mutation, basal tumor subtype and greater genomic diversity within tumors, all of which suggest more aggressive tumor biology,» says Tanya Keenan, MD, of the MGH Cancer Center, lead author of the Cancer Center, lead author of the study.

The results suggest that the pockets of stiffer extracellular matrix in the breasts of obese women contribute to tumor growth as well as to more aggressive cancers, Fischbach says: «People always think it's all about soluble factors, chemicals.

A new study shows coibamide A has potent anti-cancer activity in mice and cell cultures that model brain tumors and triple negative breast cancer, two of the most aggressive and difficult - to - treat types of cancer.

For years, scientists have observed that tumor cells from certain breast cancer patients with aggressive forms of the disease contained low levels of mitochondrial DNA.

«What we see over and over in trying to treat some of the most aggressive and intractable cancers, including many lung, brain, ovarian, breast, melanoma and sarcoma tumors, is that the tumor fights back.

The researchers found that non-Hispanic white women were more likely to have smaller tumors, and more likely to have the less - aggressive HR + / HER2 - subtype of breast cancer, compared with African - American women, who were more likely to have large tumors, more likely to have the aggressive triple - negative breast cancer, and 40 to 70 percent more likely to be diagnosed at stage 4 of all subtypes of breast cancer.

The aggressive basal - type breast cancers often metastasize, seeding new tumors in distant parts of the body.

Scientists exploit gene therapy to shrink tumors in mice with an aggressive form of breast cancer.

Many women are «triple negative» No one yet knows precisely why, but African - American women are roughly twice as likely as white women to have triple - negative breast cancer — so called because tumor cells in this particularly aggressive form of the disease test negative for estrogen receptor (ER), progesterone receptor (PR), and human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER - 2).

«We found a strong reduction in the risk of estrogen - receptor - negative [ER --RSB- breast cancer in particular, which is exciting because that type of tumor, while rarer than estrogen - receptor - positive [ER +] tumors, tends to be aggressive.»

THURSDAY, May 3, 2018 (HealthDay News)-- Much of the debate over when to start having mammograms has focused on lives saved, but new research suggests that early screening might also translate into smaller tumors and less aggressive breast cancer treatments.

May 16, 2018 • An aggressive type of breast cancer — a HER2 - positive tumor — often shrinks with Herceptin treatment, but side effects can be tough.