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Lumps, bumps and breast cancer: What you should know

October 17, 2017 Breast Cancer, Dan L Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center, Dr. Stacey Carter, Michael E. DeBakey Department of Surgery, Nicole Blanton, Surgery

If you’ve ever done a breast self-exam and felt anything peculiar, you might’ve wondered if it is cause for concern. According to the National Cancer

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Loss spurs genetic testing, early breast cancer diagnosis and treatment

October 3, 2017 Allison Mickey, Breast Cancer, Cancer, Dan L Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center, Lester and Sue Smith Breast Center

The day Sharon Shapiro’s daughter delivered her baby was nothing short of a miracle. What had been a relatively standard pregnancy for her daughter had

From The Labs

Out of the body and into bone-in culture: new technique tests drugs for metastatic cancer

June 29, 2017 Breast Cancer, Metastasis

For many cancer patients, the problem is metastasis – the dissemination of tumor cells to other organs – after the primary tumor has been eliminated.

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2017 Michael E. DeBakey M.D. Award for Research Excellence

May 26, 2017 2017 DeBakey Award for Research Excellence, Breast Cancer, Cardiothoracic Surgery, DeBakey award, endocrine cancer, gene regulation, Neuroscience, NK cells, Norovirus, Primary immunodeficiencies, Prostate Cancer, rotavirus

The five winners of this year’s Michael E. DeBakey M.D. Award for Research Excellence exemplify the breadth and depth of scientific research at Baylor College

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Mouse blood vessels and immune system can team up against cancer metastasis

May 19, 2017 angiogenesis, anti-blood vessel therapy, Breast Cancer, Breast cancer microenvironment, Immunotherapy, Mouse models, T cells, vessel normalization

Picture a shapeless, small mass of tumor cells inside an otherwise healthy organ. The tumor is growing, thanks, among other things, to its ability to

From The Labs

Mutated genes and rogue proteins can reveal new ways to treat breast cancer

May 10, 2017 Breast Cancer, breast tumor, mass spectrometry, personalized treatments, proteogenomics, tumor xenograft

Scientists are puzzled by mysteries such as, why a certain drug that induced one tumor to shrink in one patient did not affect the growth

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What is triple negative breast cancer?

March 3, 2017 Allison Mickey, Breast Cancer, Dan L Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center, Dr. Jeffrey Rosen, Molecular and cellular biology, triple-negative breast cancer

Breast cancer is a complex disease affecting thousands of Americans every year. However, some types of breast cancer are more aggressive than others, including triple

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Hair retention device bolsters spirits of cancer patient

February 21, 2017 Allison Toepperwein, Breast Cancer, Cancer, Dan L Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center, Dr. Julie Nangia, scalp cooling

In 2014, Shawna Mayberry had just retired from teaching after 30 years of service. She was rarely sick and accumulated a lot of her flex

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Breast cancer retreat provides hope, promotes understanding

February 14, 2017 Allison Mickey, Breast Cancer, Dan L Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center, Lester and Sue Smith Breast Center

Metastatic breast cancer is a complicated disease, not just in its etiology and biology, but also in how it impacts the relationship between the patient

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Opening a window into the world of tumors

February 8, 2017 Breast Cancer, cancer cells, Cancer Genome Atlas, computational analysis, epigenome, International Human Epigenome Consortium, transcriptome

A tumor behaves like a community in which cancerous and normal cells interact with each other. In some cases, these interactions result in tumor growth,