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Breast Cancer

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Human breast cancer cells.

Blood biopsies offer early warning of cancer’s return

Tests that look for hundreds of tumor mutations may detect residual disease in patients after treatment

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DateMarch 13, 2020March 12, 2020

Timothy Rebbeck, who heads up Chan School's Center for Global Cancer Prevention.

Drop in cancer deaths lifts U.S. life expectancy

Chan School’s Rebbeck highlights cancer’s complex picture

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DateFebruary 21, 2020

meats, fish, dairy, eggs, white meat on a wooden table as background

Dietary link found to drug-resistant breast cancer

Amino acid leucine, found in animal products and beans, blocks effectiveness of medications

Health|

DateMay 7, 2019January 30, 2020

illustration of man with genetic lists

New test helps ID those at risk for five deadly diseases

Could flag likelihood of developing fatal condition before symptoms appear

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DateAugust 14, 2018August 14, 2018

A new analysis from a team of MGH investigators urges the development of guidelines that account for racial differences in the development and aggressiveness of breast cancer.

Race bias seen in breast-cancer screening

Current guidelines can delay diagnosis in nonwhite women, analysis says

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DateMarch 7, 2018March 8, 2018

The study of normal cell division in a breast (left) versus the mutation BRCA1 or BRCA2 (right) has expanded as Harvard researchers examine levels of Ki67, a molecular marker in healthy breast tissue that can predict a woman’s risk of getting breast cancer.

New weapon against breast cancer

Molecular marker in healthy tissue can predict a woman’s risk of getting the disease, research says

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DateApril 6, 2016July 26, 2019

Red meat consumption and breast cancer risk

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DateOctober 15, 2014

“I think Angelina Jolie did a very noble thing, and something actually very helpful to the community of women who would consider prophylactic mastectomy,” said Andrea Farkas Patenaude, an associate professor of psychology in Harvard Medical School’s Psychiatry Department.

Lifting the ‘family curse’

Psychologist outlines upsurge in interest in prophylactic mastectomy

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DateSeptember 11, 2013March 21, 2019

“The reason we are excited about this research is that we can use a progenitor cell census to determine who’s at particularly high risk for breast cancer,” said Kornelia Polyak of the Harvard Stem Cell Institute. “In general, people who study cancer always want to focus on treating the cancer. But, in reality, preventing cancer can have the biggest impact on cancer-associated morbidity and mortality."

A marker for breast cancer

Research says it soon may be possible to gauge individual risk for disease, and eventually to treat it

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DateAugust 12, 2013March 13, 2019

This month, Arnold Arboretum staffer and breast cancer survivor Pamela Thompson will climb Shasta — the second-highest peak in the Cascade Range — to raise funds and awareness for breast cancer prevention.

The climb of her life

Arboretum’s Thompson taking breast cancer fight to California summit

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DateJune 11, 2013

Researchers uncover 74 new genetic risk factors for breast, prostate and ovarian cancer

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DateApril 15, 2013

President Drew Faust (left) was presented with a pink basketball by fellow cancer survivor and women's basketball coach Kathy Delaney-Smith in honor of the Pink Zone, a special event that supports the fight against breast cancer.

In the Pink Zone

Faust and Delaney-Smith honor breast cancer survivors

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DateFebruary 23, 2013May 17, 2019

Breast cancer in China: HSPH to partner in new awareness initiative

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DateJanuary 10, 2013

Chinese breast cancer delegation visits HSPH

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DateJanuary 7, 2013April 11, 2019

Breast cancer specimens reveal that the LOX gene plays an underlying role in promoting metastasis. “We don’t have a lot of therapies that can target breast cancer once it has metastasized, particularly once cancer cells have lodged in the bone,” says senior author Antoine Karnoub, an assistant professor of pathology at Harvard Medical School.

Noncancerous cells carry weight

Discovery reveals important clues to cancer metastasis

Health|

DateOctober 16, 2012

When to alter cancer screenings

Changes in family history particularly key for those ages 30 to 50

Health|

DateJuly 12, 2011May 23, 2019

Drugs such as tamoxifen block estrogen from entering the receptor, thereby thwarting the growth process. Photo by Bill Branson

When estrogen isn’t the culprit

Study finds new points of attack on breast cancers not fueled by estrogen

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DateJuly 11, 2011June 19, 2019

Gary Goodwin, a building manager for the Biological Laboratories and the Biological Research Infrastructure, is the man behind Team Eileen, a group in support of Harvard employee Eileen Snow, who was recently diagnosed with breast cancer. Team Eileen is hosting an art sale and fundraiser, Art @ 52 Oxford, on June 24.

Come on, Eileen

Team raises funds to support co-worker battling cancer

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DateJune 20, 2011May 3, 2019

Breast cancer geneticist Kornelia Polyak (pictured) and colleagues from the Harvard-affiliated Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, have identified an overactive network of growth-spurring genes that drive stem-like breast cancer cells enriched in triple-negative breast tumors, a typically aggressive cancer that is highly resistant to current therapies.

What’s behind aggressive breast cancer

Potential new drug target for hard-to-treat ‘triple-negative’ disease

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DateJune 1, 2011September 12, 2019

Triple-negative breast cancer is an aggressive disease with few therapeutic options. Patients with such tumors can be treated only with chemotherapy. If the cancer spreads, the median survival rate is one year. Pictured is a breast cancer cell.

New hope for the cure

Drug combination targets aggressive triple-negative breast cancer

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DateMarch 31, 2011June 13, 2019

The controversial results of Mette Kalager’s (center) study of the effectiveness of routine mammography screenings were the subject of debate at a recent Harvard School of Public Health forum that featured other authorities in the field, including Felicia Knaul (right), director of the Harvard Global Equity Initiative. Abigail Trafford (left) moderated the event.

The debate over mammograms

Forum questions, explores effectiveness of breast cancer screening

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DateMarch 9, 2011June 6, 2019

Shiladitya Sengupta, an assistant professor at Harvard Medical School, has led an effort to devise a way to keep platinum atoms, useful in a drug to combat tumors, from hurting healthy tissues.

Improving a cancer drug

Nanotechnology creates delivery system in animals that allows researchers to target tumors while sparing kidneys

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DateJune 25, 2010October 18, 2016

In the Bench Press for Breast Cancer, freshman Tom Rubel represents the men's lacrosse team while members of the athletic community offer encouragement.

Bench pressing for a cure

Harvard Athletic community joins fight against breast cancer

Campus|

DateMay 5, 2010

Painkillers may lower risk of breast and ovarian cancers: Harvard researchers

The Telegraph (UK)

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DateMarch 24, 2010

Aspirin may combat cancer, study suggests

The Boston Globe

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DateFebruary 17, 2010

A panel of experts, and those whose lives have been touched by cancer, shared the stage at a three-day international symposium titled “Breast Cancer in the Developing World: Meeting the Unforeseen Challenge to Women, Health and Equity.” Speaking from the podium is Harvard President Drew Faust, who made opening remarks on the second day of the event (Nov. 4).

Breast cancer: Scourge of developing world

Inadequate health care, limited resources imperil progress against the disease

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DateNovember 6, 2009

U.S. study shows mammograms save lives

Reuters

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DateOctober 7, 2009

Gene variants significantly increase risk for breast cancer

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DateMay 31, 2007

Writers support Hoffman Breast Center

Distinguished literati raise their voices to help out at A.R.T. benefit

Campus|

DateMay 24, 2007