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Breast cancer is harmful enough on its own, but when cancer cells start to metastasize or spread into the body from their original location the disease becomes even more fatal and difficult to treat.
The transformation Ford and her team are studying happens when cells called epithelial cells, which are more adherent to one another and less likely to spread to other parts of the body, start to take on the characteristics of mesenchymal cells, which are more migratory and more likely to invade other parts of the body. This transformation is referred to as the epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition.
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Three projects from University of Colorado Cancer Center researchers have received grants from the Denver-based Michele Plachy-Rubin Fund for Pilot Grants in Brain Cancer Research. Receiving $40,000 each to fund their work around brain cancer are Sujatha Venkataraman, PhD; and the teams of Philip Reigan, PhD, and Michael Graner, PhD; and Natalie Serkova, PhD, and Nicholas Foreman, MD, MBChB. Venkataraman will use her grant to research new treatments for ependymoma, a childhood brain tumor that is incurable in a high percentage of cases. These brain tumor cells have high levels of a gene called EZHIP, which makes the tumor cells grow very fast, Venkataraman says. There is no drug to target this gene, so we looked for other genes that work with EZHIP to give growth advantage to ependymoma tumor cells.
A 5% weight loss over 2 years in patients with HER2-positive early breast cancer was associated with worse outcomes, according to new research that investigated the BMI data of these patients.<br />