Breast cancer research stamp

Breast cancer stamp funds new NCI program.

F or the last 9 years, the U.S. Postal Service's breast cancer stamp has come to the rescue of breast cancer researchers in need of funding. Now a new program introduced by the National Cancer Institute narrows the focus of the research funded by the stamp but asks bigger questions. The proceeds from the stamp are now funneled into the breast cancer premalig-nancy program, which funds research ...

Stamp out lung cancer

Over the course of the past several decades, we have made only a few small strides in our fight against lung cancer, in spite of significant efforts put in by the medical research community. The overall five-year survival for lung cancer still remains lower than 20%. In the era of molecularly targeted therapies, new drugs, specifically the drugs that target the EGFR and the VEGF pathways, have ...

Triple negative breast cancer: breast cancer research in evolution.

A 2011 Pubmed search on the terms “breast cancer” and “triple negative” identified 932 articles, thus interest in this topic since the classification of triple negative/basal-like breast cancer has exploded and a number of recent informative reviews have been published [1–3]. We envision this special edition of Breast Disease focused on triple negative breast cancer (TNBC) as a “go-to” handbook...

California Breast Cancer Research Program

Biomarker research in breast cancer.

Breast cancer is a heterogeneous disease with vast differences between patients regarding treatment response and prognosis. Therefore, strategies for individualizing care are needed. The rapid developments in biomarker research in breast cancer are making personalized breast cancer therapy a reality. A biomarker is defined as an objectively measured characteristic that can be evaluated as an in...