by Garth Sundem | Mar 1, 2019 | Featured, Latest News, Research
Diana Cittelly, PhD Triple-negative breast cancers are more likely than other breast cancer types to metastasize and are especially likely to go the brain in younger women. Researchers have tested various hypotheses to explain this danger. One idea that has gotten...
by Garth Sundem | Jan 15, 2019 | Featured, Latest News, Research
A study by researchers at University of Colorado Cancer Center and Oregon Health & Science University published today in the Journal of the American Medical Association Network shows that breast cancers diagnosed in young women within 10 years of giving birth are...
by Garth Sundem | Dec 19, 2018 | Honors, Latest News
Growing up, everybody had that one friend – that guy or gal with bad ideas and a knack for getting you to play along. And the thing is, that darn friend never got caught! Somehow, when the jig was up, your friend was nowhere to be found and there you were left holding...
by Kelli Jones | Aug 2, 2018 | Latest News, Research
During pregnancy, the first cells that form the embryo must dull the maternal immune system to avoid being recognized as a foreign threat and be rejected. An aggressive form of breast cancer known as triple negative carcinoma uses a similar strategy, hijacking the...
by Garth Sundem | Jul 10, 2018 | Featured, Latest News, Research
Phase 1b clinical trial results published in JAMA Oncology show promise for the combination of tucatinib (formerly ONT-380) with T-DM1 against heavily pretreated HER2-positive breast cancer. Of 57 patients treated, 48 percent responded to the combination, with cancer...
