By: Nicole Fawcett, University of Michigan From: medicalxpress.com As recommendations suggest extending hormone-based breast cancer treatment to 10 years for some patients, a new study sheds light on whether patients are opting for it. In a study of 591 women with early stage breast cancer who completed five years of endocrine therapy, 47% decided to continue the treatment. Patients with …
How breast cancer cells survive in bone marrow after remission
Source: University of Michigan From: newswise.com A study from researchers at the University of Michigan and the University of California San Diego has shed light on a previously poorly understood aspect of breast cancer recurrence: how cancer cells survive in bone marrow despite targeted therapies. The paper, “Breast cancers that disseminate to bone marrow acquire aggressive phenotypes through CX43-related tumor-stroma …
Fatty acid inhibitor plus chemo could improve treatment efficacy for breast cancer patients with brain metastases
Source: Michigan Medicine – University of Michigan From: news-medical.net A new study from the University of Michigan Health Rogel Cancer Center finds that giving a fatty acid inhibitor alongside chemotherapy could improve the treatment efficacy for patients with brain metastases from triple negative breast cancer. The findings appear in npj Breast Cancer. Previous work has shown that the brain microenvironment …
Many breast cancer survivors do not receive genetic testing, despite being eligible
By: Nicole Fawcett, University of Michigan From: medicalxpress.com As cancer treatment and survivorship care relies more on understanding the genetic make-up of an individual’s tumor, a new study from the University of Michigan Health Rogel Cancer Center finds that many breast cancer survivors who meet criteria for genetic counseling and testing are not receiving it. The paper is published in …
Dr Cobain on Future Considerations For the Treatment of HR+/HER2– Breast Cancer
By: Erin Cobain, MD From: onclive.com Erin Frances Cobain, MD, medical oncologist, co-director, Breast Cancer Clinical Research Team, Rogel Cancer Center, University of Michigan, discusses key takeaways derived from an OncLive Institutional Perspectives in Cancer webinar on breast cancer, highlighting patients with hormone receptor (HR)–positive, HER2-negative metastatic breast cancer. Investigators delved into a comprehensive array of topics surrounding breast cancer management, particularly …
Novel technique developed to observe cancer cells’ metastatic potential
Source: University of Michigan From: news-medical.net When cancer cells metastasize, they morph, becoming missile-shaped in order to penetrate into other tissues throughout the body. In fact, to travel throughout the body, metastatic cancer cells must change their phenotypes; their physical characteristics. This change allows stationary, epithelial cells which compose the barriers of our organs and our skin, to morph into …
Scientists Train Computers to Recognize Which Early Stage Breast Cancers Will Spread
Source: University of Michigan Health Lab From: uofmhealth.org The new approach could help doctors to separate aggressive stage 0 breast cancer from non-aggressive forms, sparing some women unnecessary mastectomies. About 1 in 5 new breast cancers are caught at their earliest stages, before they’ve spread from milk ducts into the surrounding breast tissue. But what doctors can’t currently predict with …
Metastatic Breast Cancer: What You Should Know
By: Rene Wisely From: uofmhealth.org What does it mean to have metastatic, or stage 4, breast cancer? A Rogel Cancer Center oncologist explains the diagnosis and how it’s treated. After hearing a diagnosis of metastatic breast cancer, a rush of questions emerges. But often, it’s not until long after leaving the doctor’s office. Metastatic means the cancer has spread beyond …
Acupressure relieves long-term symptoms of breast cancer treatment, study finds
Source: University of Michigan From: medicalxpress.com A new study finds acupressure could be a low-cost, at-home solution to a suite of persistent side effects that linger after breast cancer treatment ends. Researchers from the University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center reported in 2016 that acupressure helped reduce fatigue in breast cancer survivors. In the new study, they looked at the …
Could a Pill Help Detect Breast Cancer?
By: Emily Matchar From: smithsonian.com Women eventually face the yearly ritual of the mammogram, usually suggested from age 50 onwards. It’s not painful, though notoriously uncomfortable, as two plates flatten the breasts, pancake-like, to get the best possible picture. The radiologist then looks at x-ray images for opaque spots that can indicate tumors. Mammography has been used since the late 1960s and is …
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