10.20.09
Posted in Uncategorized at 8:55 pm by Luis
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10.19.09
Posted in Uncategorized at 5:00 am by Luis
Flu Central: Everything you need to know about H1N1 and seasonal flu
Dipali Pathak
713-798-4710
loriw@bcm.edu
HOUSTON -- (Oct. 16, 2009) -- Dr. Paul Glezen answers questions about the H1N1 vaccine and the virus. The questions fall into six categories: general, symptoms and care, high risk factors, the virus itself, prevention, and the vaccine. You may also read a text version of this Q&A.
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10.15.09
Posted in Uncategorized at 5:00 am by Luis
HOUSTON -- (October 15, 2009) -- More women are surviving breast cancer as a result of improvements in early detection methods and more effective, targeted treatment, say experts at Baylor College of Medicine.
"We continue to make great strides in research and patient care," said Dr. Heather West, assistant professor in the Lester and Sue Smith Breast Center at Baylor College of Medicine. "Survival rates have greatly improved the past 10 years."
Early detection
Early detection remains key to survival, West said. Advancements have improved doctors' ability to catch the tumors when they are at a curable stage.
"Yearly screening mammograms have shown to be most effective in women from age 50 to 70," said West. "However, it is recommended that all women begin them at age 40."
Patients with a family history of breast cancer are at a higher risk and should begin screening at age 35, West said.
"Mammograms are not as sensitive in younger women because most have dense breast tissue," West said. "In younger women, we use ultrasounds. Breast magnetic resonance imaging, or MRI, is useful in selected high-risk populations."
Research advancements
Advancements in genetic research have enabled clinicians to evaluate which treatments may work better for a certain patient.
"Now we can look at how the tumors change at the molecular and genetic level with treatment," said West. "This helps clinicians determine how patients may respond to different treatments, and it rationally guides them on the development of new treatment targets."
Common approaches
The most common approaches to breast cancer treatment include:
- For hormone-sensitive tumors (estrogen-receptor positive and progesterone-receptor positive), Tamoxifen (premenopausal) and the newer aromatase inhibitors (postmenopausal)
- For patients with HER-2 gene amplification, anti-HER-2 antibodies (Trastuzumab) in combination with chemotherapy
- For patients that have no hormone sensitivity or HER-2 amplification, or triple negative tumors, chemotherapy
Researchers are currently investigating new agents to treat triple-negative tumors, which are a rare, aggressive subtype of cancer that affects approximately 15 percent of all breast cancer patients.
Some of the most promising research announced in the last year focuses on PARP, or Poly (ADP-ribose) polymerase, inhibitors, which have been shown to be effective in this subtype of breast cancer, West said.
"In certain types of cancer, there is a defect in DNA repair pathways and mutations develop," said West. "PARP is an enzyme involved with DNA damage repair. PARP inhibitors actually impair the tumor's ability to repair damage, thus killing tumors more effectively."
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10.11.09
Posted in Uncategorized at 1:13 pm by Luis
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10.09.09
Posted in Uncategorized at 5:00 am by Luis
HOUSTON -- (October 9, 2009) -- A new investigational treatment for breast cancer -- called PARP inhibitors -- holds promise for patients who suffer from triple negative breast cancer, a rare, aggressive form of the disease, said a breast cancer specialist at Baylor College of Medicine.
"This is the most exciting new therapy for triple negative breast cancer and has the potential to work in other types of breast cancer," said Dr. C. Kent Osborne, director of both the NCI-designated Dan L. Duncan Cancer Center and Lester and Sue Smith Breast Center at BCM. "Until now, we have only had chemotherapy available as a treatment for these patients."
PARP hypothesis
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PARP is an enzyme involved in DNA repair, Osborne said. DNA repair helps the body restore damage caused by genetic mutations that often lead to cancer.
"When there is a defect in one of the DNA repair pathways, our bodies cannot repair damage and mutations develop," said Osborne.
Patients who have mutations in the BRCA1 gene (a common mutation in patients with hereditary breast cancer) are predisposed to DNA damage. Some patients with triple negative breast cancers have tumors similar to BRCA1 – mutant tumors and also have a defect in DNA repair.
PARP inhibitors take advantage of this weakness or inability to repair DNA properly, Osborne said.
"The hypothesis is that if a cancer cell has a defect in one of the four or five DNA repair pathways and if we block one of the other gene pathways, it would be so overwhelming to the cancer cell that it would die," said Osborne. "Previous studies in cell cultures have shown that cancer cells with a defect in one DNA repair pathway die when treated with a PARP inhibitor that blocks a second pathway while normal cells survive."
Survival rates increased
In early human trials involving patients with this subtype, Osborne said, PARP inhibitors had outstanding results. The patients had cancer that spread to other parts of the body and did not respond to multiple other treatments.
"When PARP inhibitors were used in combination with chemotherapy, patients had a doubling in survival rates. Average survival was five months with chemo alone," said Osborne. "With PARP inhibitors and chemotherapy, average survival was nine months. This is a dramatic result when you consider that the patients in the study had tumors that were resistant to all available drugs."
Future studies will focus on using PARP inhibitors in early breast cancer patients.
Targeting pathways
Triple negative breast cancer accounts for 15 percent of all breast cancer cases that occur each year. These patients have tumors that are neither progesterone-receptor positive, estrogen-receptor positive nor HER-2 positive.
The Smith Breast Center received a grant last year to study the DNA of triple negative tumors to identify the proteins that stimulate tumor growth.
"We really do not know the genetic pathways that are causing this kind of cancer to grow and develop," said Osborne. "To develop new treatments that target these pathways, we need a greater understanding of the genetic makeup of these tumors."
Researchers with the Smith Breast Center are trying to develop a gene signature in a tumor sample that would tell which triple negative tumors have defective DNA repair and would likely respond to PARP inhibitors and specific types of chemotherapy, Osborne said.
For more information about clinical trials with PARP inhibitors, visit http://clinicaltrials.gov/.
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