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September 4th 2025
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BRCA Mutations May Cause Drug Resistance in Breast and Ovarian Cancer
September 4th 2017There is a relationship between the genetics of BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutations and the risk of a patient with breast or ovarian cancer being resistant to platinum-based chemotherapy, according to recent research conducted at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. The study’s senior author Katherine Nathanson, M.D., spoke with CURE about these findings.
FDA Approves Frontline Faslodex for Breast Cancer Subset
August 28th 2017The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved Faslodex (fulvestrant) to treat patients with hormone receptor (HR)-positive, HER2-negative locally advanced or metastatic breast cancer in postmenopausal women who were not treated with endocrine therapy.