Science news articles about 'fighting breast cancer'

SAN ANTONIO (AP) -- New research adds fresh hope that a drug that strengthens bones might also fight breast cancer....

... A drug to prevent bone loss during breast cancer treatment also substantially cut the risk that ... cancer would return, results that left doctors excited about a possible new way to fight the disease....

... associated genes may help better fight breast cancer. The new study appears in the most recent ... gene occur in human populations and may cause cancer. These reports will be published later this year, he ...

... understand what goes wrong when the BRCA1 gene is mutated and the repair pathway goes haywire. Identifying patients with mutations in these BRCA1-associated genes may help better fight breast cancer.

... type of immune system cell thought to be part of the first line of defense against breast cancer may also help promote its spread. They have found that when these cells, known as lymphocytes, make an ...

... develop new and more effective therapies to fight breast cancer was awarded today to a multi-institutional ... co-led by Joe Gray, a renowned cancer researcher with the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence ...

... of Canadian cardiologists, in collaboration with oncologists, are playing an important role in fighting breast cancer. At issue is how to use a highly effective drug therapy for early-stage breast ...

... . Beverly Howey and her identical twin sister, Karen Duncan-Sherman, each found a breast lump in 2007. Howey's was cancer. Duncan-Sherman's was benign. The two women, now ...