Sentence examples for type of breast from inspiring English sources

Three years ago Sandra Jones was diagnosed with an aggressive type of breast cancer.

Kadcyla offers an extra six months of life to women with the HER2 type of breast cancer for whom Herceptin no longer works.

ATLANTA, June 3 — For women with a certain type of breast cancer, the drug Herceptin has represented a major advance, extending lives and preventing tumor recurrence.

More than 10 years ago, scientists discovered that mutations in a gene called BRCA1 lead to a particularly deadly type of breast cancer.

Several research groups including her own have already begun testing new drugs against this type of breast cancer, Dr. Carey said.

The drug is used only for patients with a certain type of breast cancer, called HER-2 positive -- about 25percentt of all breast cancer patients.

Examples include the drug Herceptin, for women with a certain type of breast cancer, and Gleevec, for a type of leukemia and a rare gastrointestinal cancer.

The findings only apply to patients with a type of breast cancer known as oestrogen receptor (ER) negative breast cancer.

Inflammatory carcinoma is a rare type of breast cancer that results in swelling and reddening of the affected area.

Findings also show that this group is more likely to have larger and more aggressive tumours and higher rates of triple negative breast cancer – a type of breast cancer that does not respond to hormone therapies.

Working at home and in his school lab, he has found a way to block a protein that prevents those receptors from forming, thus turning this type of breast cancer into one that responds to drugs.