Sentences with phrase «for aggressive form of breast cancer»

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«Our discovery of these mutations is a first step in developing a genetics - based system for classifying endometriosis so that clinicians can sort out which forms of the disorder may need more aggressive treatment and which may not,» says Ie - Ming Shih, M.D., Ph.D., the Richard W. TeLinde Distinguished Professor in the Department of Gynecology & Obstetrics at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and co-director of the Breast and Ovarian Cancer Program at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center.

«This study forms the basis for future research in patients with breast cancer and offers hope for targeted therapy for patients with aggressive triple - negative inflammatory breast cancer,» said lead researcher Mateusz Opyrchal, M.D., Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Oncology at RPCI.

«The research showed that the aggressive form of basal breast cancer cells may be dependent on PLK4 for survival and that depleting it induced cell death,» says Dr. Mak.

This provides a potential target for treating triple negative breast cancer, the most aggressive form of the disease.

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.

Researchers led by Dr. Debra Auguste, associate professor, biomedical engineering, in the Grove School of Engineering at The City College of New York, have identified a molecule that could lead to developing treatment for one of the most aggressive forms of breast cancer.

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This model should be a powerful tool for testing therapies for aggressive ER + breast cancers and for studying luminal cancers — the most prevalent and deadliest forms of breast cancer.

Research led by Dr. Carlos Arteaga, Director of the Harold C. Simmons Comprehensive Cancer Center, has identified potential targets for treatment of triple negative breast cancer, the most aggressive form of breast cCancer Center, has identified potential targets for treatment of triple negative breast cancer, the most aggressive form of breast ccancer, the most aggressive form of breast cancercancer.

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).