Posts Tagged ‘Breast Tumors’

Q. Does Diet Affect Triple-negative Breast Cancer Any Differently Than Other Forms?

29th September 2009 by admin 2 Comments

A. Triple-negative breast tumors do not have receptors for the hormones estrogen or progesterone nor for the protein HER2. In the Women’s Intervention Nutrition Study (WINS), a major study of diet and recurrence of post-menopausal breast cancer, limiting dietary fat lowered recurrence significantly among women who had hormone-negative breast cancer (estrogen, progesterone or both). However, [...]

Lab Study Finds Protein That May Inhibit Cancer Spread

22nd June 2009 by admin No Comments

A protein produced by certain kinds of tumors inhibits the spread of cancer and could potentially be harnessed as a cancer treatment, researchers say.
Currently, there is no approved therapy for inhibiting or treating metastasis — the migration of cancer cells from the original cancer site to other parts of the body. Metastasis is one of [...]

Gene Can Dampen Chemo Drug Effectiveness

13th June 2009 by admin 1 Comment

Women with a certain type of gene may show marked resistance to an important chemotherapy drug used to treat breast cancer, new research suggests.
Scientists at the U.S. National Cancer Institute (NCI) suspect that the variation in the SOD2 gene affects how a patient responds to cyclophosphamide, an agent used against breast tumors, blood cancers and [...]