Sentences with phrase «advanced human breast cancers»

«There are still many questions left to answer but we now know that oxygen poor environments, like those often found in advanced human breast cancers serve as nurseries for the birth of cancer stem cells,» says Gregg Semenza, M.D., Ph.D., the C. Michael Armstrong Professor of Medicine and a member of the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center.

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Three - dimensional models of living tissue will advance understanding of human breast development as well as the growth of breast cancer.

Humans have an ortholog of the murine Nrk gene, and considering that the gene expression pattern in breast tumor in Nrk mutant mice was similar to that in human luminal B breast cancer, the findings of this study may lead to further understanding of the mechanisms of human breast cancer suppression and to advances in its diagnosis and therapy.

On Capitol Hill last week, Weinberg, an expert in the molecular biology of cancer, pointed out to the Congressional Biomedical Research Caucus that the major advances in understanding human cancer genetics had come, not from studying breast tissue, but from studying cow warts, worm vulvas, fruitfly retinas, and a chicken virus.

Dr. Jos Jonkers» research group studies the genetic basis of human breast cancer, using advanced mouse models for p53 - induced breast cancer, BRCA1 - and BRCA2 - associated hereditary breast cancer, and E-cadherin mutated invasive lobular carcinoma.

«In particular, his approach can be thought of as a very advanced biological therapy for the treatment of breast cancer; one that uses viruses, which are better recognized to cause disease, to treat human breast cancers.»

Mucosal melanomas with mutations in CDK4 may respond to palbociclib or ribociclib, which have demonstrated activity in advanced hormone receptor — positive, human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 — negative breast cancer.