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Breast Cancer
Breast Cancer: is cancer that forms in the cells of the breasts. After skin cancer, breast cancer is the most common cancer diagnosed in women in the United States.
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MAR 12, 2016Clinical & Molecular DX
Chemotherapy is aggressive poisoning of rogue cells to cure cancer. But do all cancer patients benefit from this therapy ...MAR 11, 2016Clinical & Molecular DX
To fight cancer, doctors often resort to aggressive treatments that include surgery followed by secondary chemotherapies ...MAR 06, 2016Cancer
Omega-3 fatty acids fight inflammation, which may explain why they seems to lower the risk of breast cancer in postmenop ...Written By: Futurity (futurity.org)FEB 27, 2016Clinical & Molecular DX
Survival of the fittest has a generally positive connotation. After all, this evolutionary principle is the driving forc ...FEB 22, 2016Cancer
Active surveillance could be a viable alternative to surgery and radiation for some women with ductal carcinoma in situ, ...Written By: Futurity (futurity.org)FEB 21, 2016Cancer
The role of organic compounds called “sphingolipids” in cancer remains a mystery—in particular, the wa ...Written By: Futurity (futurity.org)FEB 19, 2016Videos
In its very early stages, cancer is just a few cells that have gone wrong. The problem begins when those cells multiply ...Written By: Brenda Kelley KimFEB 18, 2016Clinical & Molecular DX
Genetic testing for BRCA1/2 mutations is on the rise in young women diagnosed with breast cancer. Researchers documented ...FEB 08, 2016Clinical & Molecular DX
According to researchers from the National Institute of Health (NIH), a simple blood test may soon be able to detect fiv ...FEB 05, 2016Videos
Patients undergoing radiation treatment for breast cancer might have some good news. New research shows that shorter tre ...Written By: Brenda Kelley KimFEB 04, 2016Cancer
Cancer cells rarely spread on their own, preferring to travel in groups from their original tumor site, a new study with ...Written By: Futurity (futurity.org)JAN 21, 2016Health & Medicine
Researchers have gained insight into how developing cells switch to a specialized state and how the process might go wro ...Written By: Julianne ChiaetJAN 19, 2016Cancer
Packaging a cancer drug in bubble containers derived from a patient’s own immune system makes it much more ef ...Written By: Futurity (futurity.org)JAN 12, 2016Cancer
A gene that is known to suppress the growth and spread of many types of cancer has the opposite effect in some forms of ...Written By: Futurity (futurity.org)JAN 04, 2016Neuroscience
As anyone who has survived a stroke can attest, recovery is often very difficult. Depending on the area of the brain, th ...Written By: Brenda Kelley KimJAN 02, 2016Immunology
A vaccine for cancer? The HER2-targeted vaccine could prevent the recurrence of HER2-postive breast cancers by boosting ...Written By: Kara MarkerDEC 29, 2015Cancer
Women with a history of false positive mammogram results may be at increased risk of developing breast cancer for up to ...Written By: Futurity (futurity.org)DEC 24, 2015Videos
In 2014 the most common cancer diagnosis was breast cancer, followed by prostate, lung, colon, skin, and brain cancer. B ...DEC 22, 2015Cancer
Findings from a new study led by scientists from the Florida campus of The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) suggest a p ...Written By: The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI)DEC 12, 2015Clinical & Molecular DX
For the first time in the US, there will be an alternative to hair loss for patients undergoing chemotherapy. The Food a ...DEC 11, 2015Clinical & Molecular DX
Since their discovery in the early 1990s and 2000s, micro RNAs (miRNAs) have been implicated in a variety of human condi ...DEC 04, 2015Videos
Breast cancer isn't something normally found in children, but an 8 year old girl from Utah has been diagnosed with a ver ...Written By: Brenda Kelley KimDEC 03, 2015Health & Medicine
In the United States, about 67 percent of women 40 and older ...Written By: Julianne ChiaetDEC 03, 2015Health & Medicine
A new study suggests that breast density alone may not be an independent risk factor for breast cancer. The findings, ho ...Written By: Julianne Chiaet
MAR 12, 2016
Clinical & Molecular DX
Chemotherapy is aggressive poisoning of rogue cells to cure cancer. But do all cancer patients benefit from this therapy
...
MAR 11, 2016
Clinical & Molecular DX
To fight cancer, doctors often resort to aggressive treatments that include surgery followed by secondary chemotherapies
...
MAR 06, 2016
Cancer
Omega-3 fatty acids fight inflammation, which may explain why they seems to lower the risk of breast cancer in postmenop
...
Written By:
Futurity (futurity.org)
FEB 27, 2016
Clinical & Molecular DX
Survival of the fittest has a generally positive connotation. After all, this evolutionary principle is the driving forc
...
FEB 22, 2016
Cancer
Active surveillance could be a viable alternative to surgery and radiation for some women with ductal carcinoma in situ,
...
Written By:
Futurity (futurity.org)
FEB 21, 2016
Cancer
The role of organic compounds called “sphingolipids” in cancer remains a mystery—in particular, the wa
...
Written By:
Futurity (futurity.org)
FEB 19, 2016
Videos
In its very early stages, cancer is just a few cells that have gone wrong. The problem begins when those cells multiply
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
FEB 18, 2016
Clinical & Molecular DX
Genetic testing for BRCA1/2 mutations is on the rise in young women diagnosed with breast cancer. Researchers documented
...
FEB 08, 2016
Clinical & Molecular DX
According to researchers from the National Institute of Health (NIH), a simple blood test may soon be able to detect fiv
...
FEB 05, 2016
Videos
Patients undergoing radiation treatment for breast cancer might have some good news. New research shows that shorter tre
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
FEB 04, 2016
Cancer
Cancer cells rarely spread on their own, preferring to travel in groups from their original tumor site, a new study with
...
Written By:
Futurity (futurity.org)
JAN 21, 2016
Health & Medicine
Researchers have gained insight into how developing cells switch to a specialized state and how the process might go wro
...
Written By:
Julianne Chiaet
JAN 19, 2016
Cancer
Packaging a cancer drug in bubble containers derived from a patient’s own immune system makes it much more ef
...
Written By:
Futurity (futurity.org)
JAN 12, 2016
Cancer
A gene that is known to suppress the growth and spread of many types of cancer has the opposite effect in some forms of
...
Written By:
Futurity (futurity.org)
JAN 04, 2016
Neuroscience
As anyone who has survived a stroke can attest, recovery is often very difficult. Depending on the area of the brain, th
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
JAN 02, 2016
Immunology
A vaccine for cancer? The HER2-targeted vaccine could prevent the recurrence of HER2-postive breast cancers by boosting
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
DEC 29, 2015
Cancer
Women with a history of false positive mammogram results may be at increased risk of developing breast cancer for up to
...
Written By:
Futurity (futurity.org)
DEC 24, 2015
Videos
In 2014 the most common cancer diagnosis was breast cancer, followed by prostate, lung, colon, skin, and brain cancer. B
...
DEC 22, 2015
Cancer
Findings from a new study led by scientists from the Florida campus of The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) suggest a p
...
Written By:
The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI)
DEC 12, 2015
Clinical & Molecular DX
For the first time in the US, there will be an alternative to hair loss for patients undergoing chemotherapy. The Food a
...
DEC 11, 2015
Clinical & Molecular DX
Since their discovery in the early 1990s and 2000s, micro RNAs (miRNAs) have been implicated in a variety of human condi
...
DEC 04, 2015
Videos
Breast cancer isn't something normally found in children, but an 8 year old girl from Utah has been diagnosed with a ver
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
DEC 03, 2015
Health & Medicine
In the United States, about 67 percent of women 40 and older
...
Written By:
Julianne Chiaet
DEC 03, 2015
Health & Medicine
A new study suggests that breast density alone may not be an independent risk factor for breast cancer. The findings, ho
...
Written By:
Julianne Chiaet