Breast Cancer News

December 24, 2024

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AI-Powered Blood Test First to Spot Earliest Sign of Breast Cancer

Dec. 13, 2024 — A new screening method that combines laser analysis with a type of AI is the first of its kind to identify patients in the earliest stage of breast cancer, a study ...

Study Reveals Short Term Safety of Active Monitoring for Ductal Carcinoma in Situ

Dec. 12, 2024 — The first study comparing surgery to active monitoring as treatment for ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) finds women who carefully monitor the precancerous cells are no more likely to develop breast ...

Artificial Intelligence Improves Mammography-Based Risk Prediction

Dec. 12, 2024 — The future of breast cancer screening and risk-reducing strategies is being shaped by artificial intelligence (AI), according to a recent review ...

Researchers Discover a Genetic Disposition Increasing the Risk of Breast Cancer Metastasis

Dec. 9, 2024 — Metastasis is responsible for 90 percent of cancer deaths. Researchers have found that the mutations driving it may stem from a commonly inherited variant of the PCSK9 ...

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In Five Cancer Types, Prevention and Screening Have Been Major Contributors to Saving Lives

Dec. 5, 2024 — Improvements in cancer prevention and screening have averted more deaths from five cancer types combined over the past 45 years than treatment ...

Imaging Technique Allows Rapid Assessment of Ovarian Cancer Subtypes and Their Response to Treatment

Dec. 6, 2024 — An MRI-based imaging technique predicts the response of ovarian cancer tumors to treatment, and rapidly reveals how well treatment is working, in ...

Innovative Immunotherapy Shows Promise in Early Clinical Trial for Breast Cancer

Dec. 5, 2024 — A groundbreaking phase one clinical trial explored a novel cell-based immunotherapy for breast cancer. The study focuses on a new treatment approach ...

Analyzing Multiple Mammograms Improves Breast Cancer Risk Prediction

Dec. 5, 2024 — A new method of analyzing mammograms identified individuals at high risk of developing breast cancer more accurately than the standard, questionnaire-based method did. The new method, powered by ...

How Breast Cancer Cells Survive in Bone Marrow After Remission

Dec. 4, 2024 — A new study has shed light on a previously poorly understood aspect of breast cancer recurrence: how cancer cells survive in bone marrow despite targeted ...

Long-Term Benefit from Anti-Hormonal Treatment Is Influenced by Menopausal Status

Dec. 3, 2024 — Today, women with estrogen-sensitive breast cancer receive anti-hormonal therapy. Researchers now show that postmenopausal women with low-risk tumors ...

Scientists Find Why Tamoxifen Works Better for Some People

Nov. 25, 2024 — Tamoxifen is a common and important treatment to prevent breast cancer from recurring. A new study shows that variation in a patient's gut microbiome can impact how effective the treatment ...

Healthy Women Have Cells That Resemble Breast Cancer

Nov. 20, 2024 — A new study finds that, in healthy women, some breast cells that otherwise appear normal may contain chromosome abnormalities typically associated with invasive breast cancer. The findings question ...

Cancer-Like Mutations in Healthy Cells Point to Origins of Breast Cancer

Nov. 20, 2024 — Researchers have pinpointed what could be the early genetic origins of breast cancer -- cancer-like mutations appearing in the cells of healthy women. In a new study, the international collaborators ...

Breast Cancer: The Diversity of Metastases

Oct. 31, 2024 — A comprehensive analysis of breast cancer metastases compares various methods and affords new insights into the biology of ...

Study Explores Whether CBD Can Reduce Scan-Related Anxiety in Patients With Advanced Breast Cancer

Dec. 16, 2024 — A new study explores whether cannabidiol (CBD), a component of marijuana, can reduce anxiety levels, specifically among patients with advanced breast cancer before a scan assessing tumor ...

Hair Growth Drug Safe at Low Doses for Breast Cancer Patients

Dec. 9, 2024 — Oral minoxidil is a commonly prescribed treatment for hair loss. The drug is also the active ingredient in over-the-counter Rogaine. The prescription treatment is known, however, to dilate blood ...

Complexity of Tumors Revealed in 3D

Oct. 30, 2024 — A new analysis has revealed detailed 3D maps of the internal structures of multiple tumor types. These cancer atlases reveal how different tumor cells -- and the cells of a tumor's surrounding ...

Computational Tool Developed to Predict Immunotherapy Outcomes for Patients With Metastatic Breast Cancer

Oct. 29, 2024 — Using computational tools, researchers have developed a method to assess which patients with metastatic triple-negative breast cancer could benefit from ...

Novel Role of BRCA1 in Tumor Suppression

Oct. 25, 2024 — Research shows that the breast cancer gene 1 (BRCA1) not only pushes accurate DNA repair to guard against cancer but promotes subsequent activity in tumor ...

Clinical Study Confirms Tissue Stiffening in Breast Cancer Can Drive Metastasis

Oct. 22, 2024 — Researchers evaluated tissues for fibrosis using MeCo Score, a diagnostic tool that can potentially predict the likelihood of relapse or recurrence among patients with early-stage breast ...

Why Breast Cancer Spreads to Bone

Oct. 18, 2024 — Researchers have developed an in vitro cancer model to investigate why breast cancer spreads to bone. Their findings hold promise for advancing the development of preclinical tools to predict breast ...

Do People With MS Have an Increased Risk of Cancer?

Oct. 9, 2024 — A new study has found some cancers to be slightly more frequent in people with multiple sclerosis (MS) than in people without MS. Types of cancers found to have a small increased risk include ...

New Therapeutic Strategy Identified for Triple Negative Breast Cancer

Oct. 9, 2024 — Triple negative breast cancer (TNBC) remains the most aggressive and deadly type of breast cancer, but new findings from cancer researchers are pointing the way toward therapeutic strategies that ...

Common Breast Cancer Treatments May Speed Aging Process

Oct. 7, 2024 — Markers of cellular aging -- such as DNA damage response, cellular senescence, and inflammatory pathways -- significantly increased in all breast cancer survivors, regardless of the type of treatment ...

Scientists Discover That Special Immune Cells Stop Metastatic Cancer

Oct. 7, 2024 — Researchers have discovered a natural immune mechanism in mice that stops escaped cancer cells from developing into tumors elsewhere in the ...

Estrogens Play a Hidden Role in Cancers, Inhibiting a Key Immune Cell

Sep. 27, 2024 — Estrogens are known to drive tumor growth in breast cancer cells that carry its receptors, but a new study unexpectedly finds that estrogens play a role in fueling the growth of breast cancers ...

AI Could Predict Breast Cancer Risk Via 'Zombie Cells'

Sep. 25, 2024 — Women worldwide could see better treatment with new AI technology which enables better detection of damaged cells and more precisely predict the risk of getting breast cancer, shows new ...

New Cancer Diagnoses Did Not Rebound as Expected Following Pandemic

Sep. 24, 2024 — Cancer incidence trends in 2021 largely returned to what they were before the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a study by researchers at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). However, there was ...

Breast and Ovarian Cancer Newly Linked to Thousands of Gene Variants

Sep. 18, 2024 — New research identifies specific genetic changes that can increase a person's risk of breast and ovarian cancers, to help guide clinical ...

Ten-Year Study Shows Tomosynthesis Improves Breast Cancer Detection

Sep. 17, 2024 — According to a new 10-year study, screening for breast cancer with digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT) increases cancer detection rates and significantly reduces the rate of advanced cancers compared ...

Antibody-Drug Conjugate Found Effective Against Brain Metastases in Patients With HER2-Positive Breast Cancer

Sep. 13, 2024 — A drug that delivers chemotherapy directly to tumors has shown impressive activity against some of the hardest-to-reach cancer cells: those that have spread to the brain in patients with advanced ...

Tumor-Induced B Cell Changes Reveal Potential Biomarker for Treatment Response in Triple Negative Breast Cancer

Sep. 12, 2024 — Researchers have discovered new insights into tumor-induced B cell changes in blood and bone marrow of triple negative breast cancer patients. The findings show two distinct patterns of B cell ...

Skin Fungus Colonization Accelerates Breast Cancer Tumor Growth

Sep. 5, 2024 — A new study shows that skin fungus colonization of Malassezia globosa speeds up breast cancer tumor ...

Scientists Identify Potential New Immune System Target to Head Off the Spread of Breast Cancer Cells

Sep. 3, 2024 — In a study using human breast cancer cells, scientists say they have potentially identified immune system white blood cells that appear to be the closest neighbors of breast cancer cells that are ...