Cancer Screening And Treatment During Pandemic CDC and NIH along with other leading medical officials agree that washing hands, wearing masks, and social distancing are still important tools we have to stop the spread of Covid-19. Delayed Cancer Screenings During COVID-19 Several surveys have shown that Americans are opting not to be screened for … Read More
On May 19, 2020 the Journal of the National Cancer Institute published a paper confirming that multiple genes predispose black women to breast cancer. This study is called Contribution of Germline Predisposition Mutations to Breast Cancer Risk in African American Women. According to the CDC African American women are more likely than Caucasian women to get triple negative breast cancer. … Read More
Artificial Intelligence is predicting breast cancer in women as well as humans in one recent study. Existing breast cancer screening programs are usually based on mammography at similar time intervals, annually or every two years for all women. This approach is not optimal for cancer detection on an individual basis. A “one size fits all” may … Read More
Liquid Biopsy As tumor cells devide and grow they shed DNA which travels through the patients blood streams. This new Liquid Biopsy blood test looks for the shed DNA. Jocelyn Kaiser writes, in her January 18, 2018 article for Science, about work being done by Joshua D. Cohen et al. The team has developed, CancerSEEK, a … Read More
Tamoxifen promotes metastasis in some breast cancer cells Tamoxifen works by blocking estrogen in the breast tissue by attaching to the estrogen receptors in breast cells. Recent studies show that tamoxifen promotes metastasis in some breast cancer cells. The drug has been used as a first-line endocrine treatment for breast cancer for decades. Tamoxifen resistance In … Read More
