THE FACTS Women who have had surgery to remove lymph nodes, a common breast cancer treatment, are often warned that flying can lead to lymphedema, a painful swelling, in their arms.
However, another boost was given to olive oil's image recently when a study published in the Annals of Oncology showed that its most plentiful monounsaturated fat - oleic acid - has the ability to mute the effect of a common breast cancer gene.
This shows that the meta-signature can serve as a common breast cancer recurrence index that is able to predict patient survival in heterogeneous sample populations.
The generality of this approach to antibody protein conjugation was assessed by generating similar fusions with a human antibody against the HER2/neu receptor, a common breast and ovarian cancer marker and target of the clinically approved antibody drug Herceptin.
As described earlier (Twardella et al, 2003), all patients received a common breast irradiation treatment with conformal tangential irradiation with lateral and medial wedge fields, including CT-based planning, simulation, verification, and quality assurance.
In summary, these findings indicate that there are no universal markers that identify a common breast CSC population or a therapy-resistant population in all breast cancers, or even in a given subtype of breast cancer.
