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Researchers at Harvard-affiliate Dana-Farber Cancer Institute have identified a group of genes that may predict whether certain breast tumors will recur after being treated by the most common chemotherapy drugs...
According to Richardson, this preliminary research may ultimately provide an alternate approach to treatment for breast cancer patients...
Medical School Professor Craig A. Bunnell, who works in Dana Farber’s Breast Oncology Center, said women diagnosed with early-stage breast cancer often have tumors surgically removed before the disease can metastasize. Following surgery, patients receive chemotherapy to destroy any microscopic cancerous cells traveling through the bloodstream and may also undergo hormone and radiation therapy. The dilemma, Bunnell said, is determining which patients will benefit from chemotherapy. Though many stay in remission after chemotherapy, others relapse...
...These genomic-based studies are important because they may help us identify biomarkings that will allow us to tailor treatment to a particular cancer,” she said. “The findings may also tell us how cancer cells develop resistance so that these genes may be targets for intervention...
...Dailey. Doctors at Dana-Farber, including Mayer, continued to follow Gould’s health. But Gould also suffered from small bowel obstructions, which Dailey described as painful and debilitating intestinal blockages, and was hospitalized in New York in March 2002 for his sixth such obstruction when the lung cancer was ultimately found, already at the final stage of progression...