types of breast cancer

(University of Illinois at Chicago) Researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine have found how gene expression that may contribute to drug resistance is ramped up in unusual types of breast cancer tumors.

Their findings may offer new therapy targets.

(University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center) While Fanconi anemia is a rare and dangerous disease, new laboratory research at The University of Texas M.

D. Anderson Cancer Center shows it may lead researchers toward clues in more common diseases, including highly hereditary types of breast cancer.

(Vanderbilt University Medical Center) Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center researchers have uncovered a gene signature that may help predict clinical outcomes in certain types of breast cancer.

In the Journal of Clinical Investigation, Harold (Hal) Moses, M.D., and colleagues report that this gene signature -- which is associated with the transforming growth factor-beta (TGF-β) signaling pathway -- correlates with reduced relapse-free survival in patients with breast cancer, especially in those with estrogen receptor (ER) positive tumors.