POSTS TAGGED AS breast cancer

Monitor in a Bra Measures Breast Cancer Progression

Tiny device fit inside bras could save thousands of lives
“A team in Nottingham Trent University’s (NTU) Medical Technologies Innovation Facility [MORE]

Genetic Test for Triple Negative Breast Cancer Tells who Will and Won’t Respond to Immunotherapy

Genetic test can identify triple negative breast cancer treatment responders
“A genetic test developed at the University of California San Francisco [MORE]

Detecting Breast Cancer in Saliva

High sensitivity saliva-based biosensor in detection of breast cancer biomarkers- HER2 and CA15-3
“In this study [from chemical engineers at the [MORE]

Highly Accurate 3-D Printed Biopsy Robot

Stormram 4, a 3-D printed biopsy robo
Because the “Stormram 4,” a 3-D printed biopsy robot, is made of plastic, it [MORE]

Quick and Reliable Liquid Biopsy for Breast Cancer

Liquid biopsy detects DNA markers in advanced breast cancer
“In a recent study published in Cancer Research Communications, a novel, automated [MORE]

Salt as a Biomarker in Breast Cancer

Sodium accumulation in breast cancer predicts malignancy
From researchers at the Universities of York and Cambridge:  “23Na MRI revealed elevated sodium [MORE]

Photoacoustic Device for Assessing Lymph Nodes

Transparent ultrasound transducer
“[We, electrical engineers at South Korea’s Pohang University] demonstrate a non-ionizing, cost-effective, handheld photoacoustic finder (PAF) fully integrated [MORE]

Breath Analysis for Breast Cancer and Its Subtypes

Electronic nose for breath analysis
Exhaled breath has some 2,500 chemicals that are potential biomarkers for diseases.  To discover biomarker profiles [MORE]

A Paintable Phosphorescent Bandage for Postoperative Tissue Oxygen Assessment

Paintable phosphorescent bandage helps wound assessment
Photomedicine researchers at Harvard report “results of a clinical trial using a previously untried paintable [MORE]

Quick Diagnosis of Breast Cancer

CytoPAN – diagnosing breast cancer in less than one hour
Researchers in Boston, Singapore and South Korea have developed a point [MORE]

Microbiome Diversity and Tumor Metastasis

Human microbiome
Cancer researchers at the University of Virginia have made an interesting observation that links microbe diversity in intestines to [MORE]

A Blood Test for Relapsed Breast Cancer

Mammogram of breast cancer
Dying breast cancer tumors release declining levels of mutant DNA into the blood, unless those tumors are [MORE]

Imaging Tumor Vascularization

Map of tumors grown in mice
Using computation, researchers at Johns Hopkins are able to integrate images from in vivo MRI, [MORE]

BRCA1 Assessment on a Smartphone

POC BRCA 1 mutation testing
A paper microfluidics method, called “FluoroZen,” coupled with a smartphone application is able to detect BRCA1 [MORE]