Inhibition of PARP

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Interesting… When a healthy cell is damaged, there are two paths it can take. The first is a rapid quest of survival and repair, the other is cell suicide called apoptosis to prevent passing on “flawed genetic information”. PARP1...

Comparison of molecular subtype distribution in triple negative inflammatory and non inflammatory breast cancers

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Inflammatory Breast Cancer, otherwise known as IBC, has a very poor prognosis due to its high rate of metastasis. Seven (7) sub-types of Triple Negative Breast Cancer (TNBC) have been identified in a recent study by Lehmann and colleagues. “Our data show that,...

Statin and Inflammatory Breast Cancer

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The following is an introduction written by Dr. Ueno director of the Morgan Welch Clinic at MD Anderson commenting on an article ran in Science November 29, 2013.   We are very familiar with the desire of Dr. Ueno to research how statin can impact recurrence of breast...

Because of Her

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Updated January 21, 2013 – “The IBC world suffered a great loss today. Lori Grennan, the inspiration for much of our work, has passed away. Peace to her family and all who loved her. We will continue on, in her honor, educating and funding IBC research.”...

The Death of Research As We Know It?

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The following article was published in Breast Investigators in January of 2013.  However, I wanted to post it on our blog after listening to comments by a speaker at the MD Anderson Network conference today.  The speaker was a Pulitzer prize winner, Siddhartha...

UK power!

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I could just cry I am so moved… Recently some of the IBC sisters in the UK got together for tea with one US based IBC survivor, (who is British).  At the tea, it was discussed how much they wish to do something for the improvement of IBC care for their sisters. ...