Latest Triple-negative breast cancer Stories

Individuals with disrupting mutations in the BRCA1 gene are known to be at substantially increased risk of breast cancer throughout their lives. Now, discoveries from an international research team led by Mayo Clinic researchers show that some of those persons may possess additional genetic variants that modify their risk. These new findings enhancing individualized medicine appear in the current Nature Genetics."These findings should be useful in helping determine individual risk for...

NEW YORK, Sept. 14 /PRNewswire/ -- Everlast, the premier fight sports and fitness brand in the world, today announced Kim Brylow as the winner of their global 'What Do You Fight For?' philanthropic social movement and contest. For her brave story of twice fighting and overcoming triple negative breast cancer, Kim will receive $5,000, which she is donating to the Triple Negative Breast Cancer Foundation, and a VIP trip for her and one guest to the Sergio Mora - Shane Mosley fight at the...

SANTA BARBARA, Calif., Sept. 13 /PRNewswire/ -- Fergie, six-time GRAMMY Award winner and Avon spokesperson, was a special guest at the eighth annual Los Angeles-area Avon Walk for Breast Cancer in Santa Barbara, CA, on September 11-12. The Avon Walk raised more than $6.4 million to advance access to care and breast cancer research, and attracted more than 2,800 participants from 45 states and Canada, including 322 breast cancer survivors. To view the multimedia assets associated with this...

NORTHFIELD, Ill., July 29 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Recent media reports of potential misdiagnosis of early-stage breast cancer may frighten women away from breast cancer screening that could save their lives. Rather than shying away from screening, women should know the questions to ask and be confident about weighing their options, according to Susan G. Komen for the Cure®, the world's largest breast cancer organization, and the College of American Pathologists (CAP), the world's...

Harder-to-treat "˜triple negative' cancer more common in African, African-American women, U-M study showsA new study finds that African ancestry is linked to triple-negative breast cancer, a more aggressive type of cancer that has fewer treatment options.Researchers at the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center found that, among women with breast cancer, 82 percent of African women were triple negative, 26 percent of African-Americans were and 16 percent of white Americans...

New technology targets cancer prevalent in young women You can teach an old drug new chemotherapy tricks. Northwestern University researchers took a drug therapy proven for blood cancers but ineffective against solid tumors, packaged it with nanotechnology and got it to combat an aggressive type of breast cancer prevalent in young women, particularly young African-American women.That drug is arsenic trioxide, long part of the arsenal of ancient Chinese medicine and recently adopted by Western...

SAN DIEGO, June 18 /PRNewswire/ -- Naviscan's Positron Emission Mammography (PEM) technology was the focus of several presentations and discussions at the Society of Nuclear Medicine Annual Meeting in Salt Lake City. The focus represents a growing interest and validation of how PEM can play an important role in the fight against breast cancer. PEM scanners are high-resolution breast PET systems that can show the location as well as the metabolic phase of a lesion. This information is...

PLANO, Texas, May 19 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- SunChips multigrain snacks, Rold Gold pretzels and the Baked! line of products from PepsiCo's Frito-Lay division will donate $1 million to Susan G. Komen for the Cure, providing funding for educational materials and research to find the cures for breast cancer. "As an avid supporter of Susan G. Komen for the Cure, Frito-Lay is joining the Komen promise to end breast cancer forever by directing this $1 million donation to help educate and...

SAN DIEGO, April 26 /PRNewswire/ -- Celebrate Mother's Day in style with Susan G. Komen for the Cure, San Diego at FLUXX, San Diego's hottest new nightclub in the Gaslamp Quarter. Komen San Diego will be hosting Honor Your Mother Cocktails for the Cure Trunk Show. This trunk show and cocktail event will feature the latest local trends and gifts with a percentage of proceeds from vendor sales benefiting Susan G. Komen for the Cure, San Diego. Current vendors include Bake for Hope, Patti...

A newly identified cancer biomarker could define a new subtype of breast cancer as well as offer a potential way to treat it, say researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. Their findings will be published in the March 1 online early edition issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.The research could further refine what recent breast cancer research has concluded: that breast cancer is not one disease, but many. So far, research has firmly...