By Angus Chen March 31, 2023 ADOBE Clinicians know the odds tend to be stacked against Black breast cancer patients. They have more dangerous and aggressive subtypes of breast cancer more frequently than white patients. Within breast cancer subtypes, Black patients tend to have worse outcomes compared to white patients, too. But what biological factors...
JOHNS HOPKINS MEDICINE The breast tumors of Asian, Black and white women have very different cellular, microbial and genomic features that could potentially be used to personalize care or predict disease progression, according to new research by investigators at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center. Potential race-specific microbial biomarkers of breast cancer identified by the researchers...
by University of Turku Breast cancer cells break through the basement membrane acting as a biological barrier. In the image, the finger-like projections formed by the actin of cancer cells invading the surrounding cell medium are coloured red and the basement membrane protein is coloured blue. Credit: Aleksi Isomursu, Turku Bioscience. Researchers at Turku University...
