Researchers have been able to coax human breast cancer cells to turn into fat cells in a new proof-of-concept study in mice.
To achieve this feat, the team exploited a weird pathway that metastasising cancer cells have; their results are just a first step, but it’s a truly promising approach.
The model can find breast cancer earlier and eliminates racial disparities in screening.
MIT researchers have invented a new AI-driven way of looking at mammograms that can help detect breast cancer in women up to five years in advance. A deep learning model created by a team of researchers from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) and Massachusetts General Hospital can predict — based on just a mammogram — whether a woman will develop breast cancer in the future. And unlike older methods, it works just as well on black patients as it does on white patients.
Continue reading… “MIT AI model is ‘significantly’ better at predicting breast cancer”
Researchers have been able to coax human breast cancer cells to turn into fat cells in a new proof-of-concept study in mice.
To achieve this feat, the team exploited a weird pathway that metastasising cancer cells have; their results are just a first step, but it’s a truly promising approach.
When you cut your finger, or when a foetus grows organs, the epithelium cells begin to look less like themselves, and more ‘fluid’ – changing into a type of stem cell called a mesenchyme and then reforming into whatever cells the body needs.
This process is called epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) and it’s been known for a while that cancer can use both this one and the opposite pathway called MET (mesenchymal‐to‐epithelial transition), to spread throughout the body and metastasise.
The Dallas Cowboys just got “pinked.”
October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month. This is when the entire nation gets painted pink. This is also when “pink” becomes more than a color: It becomes, for better or worse, a verb.
Continue reading… “Pinking of America has become a multibillion-dollar business”
The White House is lit the color pink to highlight Breast Cancer Awareness Month.
As cancer death rates continue to fall in the U.S. not all segments of the population are benefiting, the American Cancer Society said Friday.
Continue reading… “Cancer death rates in the U.S. continue to drop”
Women can drink up to five cups of coffee daily to stave off the disease
Drinking up to five cups of coffee daily can protect women from developing oestrogen-receptor negative breast cancer. This type of breast cancer is one of the most aggressive forms of the disease, says a new study.
Continue reading… “Drinking Up to Five Cups of Coffee a Day Lowers Breast Cancer Risk”
Hot flashes lower risk of breast risk.
Here’s some good news for women ever bothered by hot flashes and other menopausal symptoms: Your risk for breast cancer may be reduced as much as 50%, researchers from the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle report.
Continue reading… “Hot Flashes Linked to Lower Breast Cancer Risk”
Breast cancer rates are on the rise among pregnant waomen because women are waiting longer to have children.
Breast cancer rates among pregnant women are on the increase because would-be parents are waiting longer to have children, an expert has warned. The diagnosis of the disease in expectant mothers leads to a terrible dilemma as the treatment can be devastating for the unborn child.
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A potent anti-tumor gene introduced into mice with metastatic melanoma has resulted in permanent immune reconfiguration and produced a complete remission of their cancer, according to an article to be published in the December 2010 issue of the Journal of Clinical Investigation.
Continue reading… “Gene Therapy for Metastatic Melanoma?”
Radiotherapy for breast cancer patients could soon be a single dose 30-minute affair, instead of the tedious present-day regimen lasting over six weeks.
In a major breakthrough, a team of British doctors headed by University College London’s Dr Jayant S Vaidya — an Indian from Goa — has succesfully created and tested a new technique that will blast the remnants of a tumour inside the breast in just one shot, lasting half an hour. The team used radiation on areas just around the tumour rather than the whole breast, as is done presently.
Continue reading… “Coming Soon, One-Shot Radiotherapy for Breast Cancer”
Breast cancer vaccine successful in mice, trials to start on humans in just a year.
American scientists say they have developed a vaccine which has prevented breast cancer from developing in mice. The researchers – whose findings are published in the journal, Nature Medicine – are now planning to conduct trials of the drug in humans.
Continue reading… “Breast Cancer Vaccine Trials to Start on Women Within One Year”