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Prescribing existing drugs to healthy women who carry a gene that makes them more likely to develop breast cancer could prevent them from developing the disease, a breakthrough University of Cambridge study suggests.
Researchers say pregnancy could provide a "double whammy" for breast cancer as it induces a rapid expansion of breast cells for breastfeeding.
Risk for a recurrence of breast cancer in women can now be identified through genetic and other factors.
Co-opting the normal synthetic machinery of the body. >> that's right, the power of asking for help. >> reporter: other research might help the tiniest among us. while nursing her infant daughter five years ago. >> i started trying to learn like what is in this breast milk. >> whitehead envisioned using mrna to program breast cells to produce specific proteins. so it would be a way of non- invasively delivering therapeutics to an infant. it is amazing technology. >> reporter: technology that could one day usher in a revolution in drug delivery, dr. jon lapook cbs news, pittsburgh. >> duncan: w...
Breast cells are found to invite immune system reinforcements after pregnancy to inhibit tumors formation.