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breast cancer
Therapy targeting androgen receptors opens new chapter for hormone driven breast cancers
Androgen receptor activation exerts potent antitumour activity in oestrogen receptor positive breast cancer. The international study, published in Nature Medicine (18th January), has important therapeutic implications for women with metastatic breast cancers that are oestrogen receptor positive, including those who…
20-year WHI follow-up study finds oestrogen selectively protects against breast cancer in women who have undergone hysterectomy
A 20-year follow-up of the two Women’s Health Initiative (WHI) hormone replacement studies found that, among postmenopausal women with prior hysterectomy, use of oestrogen in comparison to placebo was associated with lower breast cancer incidence and mortality, while among those…
Night-shift work and breast cancer risk: potential biological mechanism identified
Is night-shift work a risk factor for breast cancer? Experimental research just published in Nature Communications gives the molecular basis for asserting that it may well be. Researchers at Paris-Saclay University, with colleagues from Inserm and Inrae, studied the association…
The ABC Global Alliance launch a Global campaign to raise awareness about advanced breast cancer
There are over two million new cases of breast cancer a year in the world and 0.6 million deaths. About a third of all early breast cancer cases will become metastatic even with the best care, and the average overall…
Parity and breast cancer risk are not so strictly linked
The reduction in birth rate has been blamed in the past for the increase in breast cancer in young women, but now a study just published in JAMA Network Open (JAMA Netw Open. 2020;3(3):e200929. doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.0929) offers evidence refuting this hypothesis:…
In memory of Aron Goldhirsch, challenging oncologist with a vision
Prof. Aron Goldhirsch, an outstanding representative of italian Medical Oncology, awarded and recognized internationally, passed away on February 26. Since 2019, he was Medical Consultant at the Breast Cancer Center in Multimedica (Milan, Italy). For many years he held the…
Genetics of breast cancer: much more than a BRCA story
Over 450 departments and institutions worldwide have contributed to the most comprehensive study conducted so far on breast cancer risk variants whose results have been published in Nature Genetics. The fine mapping of 150 breast cancer risk regions identified nearly…