Tag: Tamoxifen

  • Nation & World

    Dietary link found to drug-resistant breast cancer

    Researchers at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School have linked a common dietary element to breast cancer drug resistance, raising the prospect of a new way to attack a major cause of breast cancer death.

    4 minutes
    meats, fish, dairy, eggs, white meat on a wooden table as background
  • Nation & World

    When estrogen isn’t the culprit

    Although it sounds like a case of gender confusion on a molecular scale, the male hormone androgen spurs the growth of some breast tumors in women. In a new study, Harvard scientists at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute provide the first details of the cancer cell machinery that carries out the hormone’s relentless growth orders.

    4 minutes