Research Worth Watching: The Twittersphere of Cancer Cells
Cancer cells are not loners. They communicate with each other, with the other cells in their neighborhood, and with cells in the entire universe of your body. Now, a flurry of basic research has led to new insights into this communication and an exciting new realm of...
Research Worth Watching: Another Look at Dense Breasts
It has recently been estimated that 43% of women between 40 and 74 have dense breasts on mammogram. That actually calculates out to 27.6 million women! By now we all know the limitations of mammography screening particularly when women have dense breasts. Not only...
Research Worth Watching: International Symposium on the Breast
Dr. Susan Love Foundation for Breast Cancer Research’s 8th International Symposium on the Breast provides a unique opportunity for scientists and clinicians who conduct intraductal research or whose research could enhance the intraductal field to share knowledge and...
Research Worth Watching: A Breast Cancer Vaccine to Decrease HER2+ Recurrence?
As I’ve mentioned before, immunotherapy has become a hot topic in breast cancer research. It garnered a lot of attention from researchers in April at the American Association for Cancer Research 2014 annual meeting (which I wrote about here). And the same was true...
Research Worth Watching: New Understanding of Cancer and Which Cells are Important
In this Research Worth Watching section, we talk about recent studies that give us new insight into the science of breast cancer—insight that may ultimately change the way we approach the clinical treatment. Although this new research is unlikely to have an...
Research Worth Watching: Epigenetics and Breast Cancer
Better scientific tools have allowed researchers to learn more about inherited genetic mutations that increase risk or mutations that develop inside of the cancer cell that help fuel its growth. Breast cancer happens to have good examples of both kinds of mutations....
Research Worth Watching: Immunotherapy
As I mentioned in my AACR blog earlier this spring, there has been a sea change in the approach to treating breast cancer. In the past, most of the focus has been on killing the cancer cells with chemotherapy, surgery and radiation. More recently, we have tried to...