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Hope and help for triple-negative (TNBC) and other forms of hormone-negative breast cancer.

Thursday, March 4, 2021

Clusters of P53 Protein Mutations Offer New Treatment Potentials for TNBC

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The p53 protein in its natural state, sometimes called “the guardian of the genome,” is a front-line protector against cancer. But the mutan...
Wednesday, January 13, 2021

Women Satisfied With "Going Flat" After Mastectomy

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I have "gone flat," as have many women I know. That beguiling descriptor applies to breast cancer patients like me who do not have...
Monday, November 2, 2020

Looking for Research Participants in the UK on Building Resilience Online to Counter Psychological Effects of Breast Cancer

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Readers in the UK: Here's your chance to participate in research through King's College London on   the psychological effects of bre...
Wednesday, August 12, 2020

HDAC6 Effective in Metastatic TNBC

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A news release from the George Washington University (GW) Cancer Center.  Genetic modifier HDAC6 was found to control tumor growth and ha...

TNBC and CDK4/6 Inhibitors

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Some good information here  ( OncLive ) about TNBC and CDK4/6 Inhibitors, especially clarifying the different types of TNBC. Scroll toward t...

Need a Respite?

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I had thought I was doing a decent job managing the stress of the pandemic, social unrest, my cancer advocacy and concerns, economic instab...
Monday, April 20, 2020

Burn Scars: A Memoir of the Land and Its Loss

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Journalist Patricia Prijatel and her family built a tiny cabin in a remote Colorado mountain valley where they embraced the silent, the w...
Monday, February 24, 2020

Inflammation Caused by Radiation Can Fuel TNBC Cells: A New Road To TNBC-Specific Treatment?

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From a News Release from  ChristianaCare’s Cawley Center for  Translational Cancer Research  While radiation is successfully used to tre...
Tuesday, January 7, 2020

Researchers Starve Triple Negative Breast Cancer With Drug in Clinical Trials

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From A News Release from Science Daily Brazilian researchers have developed a strategy that slows the growth of triple negative breast ca...

Metabolic Syndrome and TNBC

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Improving metabolic factors may help improve survival in postmenopausal women with triple-negative  breast cancer , according to research p...
Wednesday, November 27, 2019

Watch the Scary TNBC Language!!!

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I just got a news release from the University of Connecticut about gene splicing and how that can lead to triple-negative breast cancer. It...

Acupressure can reduce effects of breast cancer treatment.

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Acupressure improved some of the most common side effects of breast cancer treatment, including   chronic pain ,   anxiety ,   depression...
Monday, July 8, 2019

Who Is Most Likely to Get Triple-Negative Breast Cancer?

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In an extensive survey of more than a million cases of breast cancer diagnosed between 2010 and 2014, researchers have reaffirmed that tri...
Wednesday, June 26, 2019

Fiction Helps Me Escape to the Warmth

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Thanks, Louise Penny, for reminding us of what's warm,  welcoming and a bit silly. It’s usually winter in Three Pines, a village ...
Saturday, June 8, 2019

Music helps soothe breast cancer pain

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Breast cancer treatment can be miserable—doctors cut you up, fill you with toxins, and radiate you. It’s physically and mentally grueling, ...
Saturday, April 27, 2019

Five Truths About Triple-Negative Breast Cancer That Can Give You Hope

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It’s maddening that come patients are being denied the hope they need when diagnosed with triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC). Mind you, T...
Sunday, February 17, 2019

Study Shows Mammography Saves Lives

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Hundreds of thousands of women's lives have been saved by mammography and improvements in breast cancer treatment since 1989, accordin...
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Tuesday, October 9, 2018

Weight Gain Associated with TNBC Risk

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In a study of postmenopausal women, participants who lost weight had a lower risk of developing triple-negative breast cancer than those wh...
Friday, October 5, 2018

Nanoparticles Improve TNBC treatment

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The chemotherapy drug doxorubicin encapsulated in nanoparticles an be especially effective in treating triple-negative breast cancer, accor...
Wednesday, October 3, 2018

Eating Bacon Might Increase Your Breast Cancer Risk

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A new study in the   International Journal of Cancer  reviewed previous research on the link between meat consumption and breast cancer ri...
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