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_ Breast Cancer A Link Between Bra Wearing and Breast Cancer? Forget about It By Jane Farrell article Despite what some people believe, thereΓÇÖs absolutely no evidence of a link between wearing a bra and breast cancer risk … Read More→
_ Breast Cancer Immunotherapy in Early-Stage Breast Cancer By Sondra Forsyth article Yale Cancer Center researchers used a new molecular analysis tool to accurately detect the level of an important target for immunotherapy in early-stage breast cancers. The diagnostic test, using RNAScope, measures the amount of PD-L1 (programmed death ligand 1) mRNA in routine formalin-fixed cancer tissues and is devoid of many of the technical issues that plague antibody-based detection methods that have yielded conflicting results in the past. PD-L1 is the target of several novel immune stimulatory therapies in clinical trials.