«A deeper analysis of the primary tumor may be all we need to prevent metastases,» said UNC Lineberger's Lisa A. Carey, MD, physician - in - chief of the N.C. Cancer Hospital and the Richardson and Marilyn Jacobs Preyer Distinguished
Professor in Breast Cancer Research, who leads the Tumor Donation Program.
This
advance in breast cancer research reflects the mission of Stem Cell Reports to provide an open - access forum that communicates basic discoveries in stem cell research as well as translational and clinical studies.
This is a fascinating new field of
thought in breast cancer research, especially given the team's findings that we might be able to stop cancer stem cells by blocking the molecule FAK.»
Eran Andrechek, a physiology professor in the College of Human Medicine at Michigan State University, has discovered that many of the various models
used in breast cancer research can replicate several characteristics of the human disease, especially at the gene level.
About 25 percent of the money that will be raised in that San Diego event will support the national Komen Foundation's Award and Research Grant Program, which funds
projects in breast cancer research, health education, breast cancer screening, and treatment around the world from the organization's headquarters in Texas.
Regardless of age, the cost of physician office and hospital outpatient visits accounted for roughly 90 percent of the difference between costs for women with and without breast cancer, researchers
report in Breast Cancer Research and Treatment.
With your support, Dr. Petty and his team will expand upon their
work in breast cancer research, educating patients to make more informed treatment decisions, and ultimately reducing the number of overdiagnosed and overtreated cases across the country.
She recalled a friend who was diagnosed with breast cancer and feared that if her diagnosis had come 20 years earlier, before the advancements
made in breast cancer research, she would have been destined to die young.
The program will feature Olufunmilayo Olopade, MD, FACP, an international
leader in breast cancer research and director of the Cancer Risk Clinic at the University of Chicago Medical Center.
He has chaired the AACR Special Conference «
Advances in Breast Cancer Research» since 2003 and has served as AACR co-chair of the annual San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium since 2009.
«Put $ 200 million if you will
in breast cancer research, even if the experiments to be done may only be worth $ 10 million.
In breast cancer research, the gene BRCA1 has received the lion's share of attention because mutations in that gene are responsible for about three percent of all cases of breast cancer.
Since 1972, the ACS has invested almost $ 352 million
in breast cancer research.