Stories indexed under: Breast cancer
Total: 5
- Breast stem cell research: Receptor teamwork required and a new pathway may be involved May 30, 2012 Breast-cancer researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have found that two related receptors in a robust signaling pathway must work together as a team to maintain normal activity in mammary stem cells.
- Age at first pregnancy associated with breast cancer risk Dec. 1, 2010 Having children later in life or not at all, combined with a trend in obesity may increase risk of a breast cancer that is hard to detect.
- New MRI technique could mean fewer breast biopsies in high-risk women June 29, 2009 A University of Wisconsin-Madison biomedical engineer and colleagues have developed a method that, applied in MRI scans of the breast, could spare some women with increased breast cancer risk the pain and stress of having to endure a biopsy of a questionable lump or lesion.
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Study: Breast cancer patients with greater need seek more information online
June 18, 2008
Patients with more concerns about their breast cancer are heavier users of online information, according to a new study conducted by the University of Wisconsin-Madison Center for Excellence in Cancer Communications Research, funded by the National Cancer Institute.
- With rat genome as guide, human breast cancer risk refined April 2, 2007 Combing the genomes of the rat and the human, researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have found swaths of genetic code that can be used to assess the risk of human breast cancer.