Breast Cancer

A new class of drugs called checkpoint inhibitors are now being studied in breast cancer clinical trials. In this video you will learn how these drugs are able to get your immune system to kill cancer cells.

In this video you will learn about the research now underway to develop vaccines that can be used to treat breast cancer.

Hundreds of breast cancer studies are currently taking place throughout the U.S. This video will help you learn how to find and in enroll in a clinical trial.

Researchers can sound like they are speaking a foreign language. This video will teach you how to understand what a study is about, so you can decide if you’re interested in taking part.

Every cancer treatment approved for use today was found safe and effective in a clinical trial. This video will teach you about the types of clinical trials that are being used to find the treatments that will be approved tomorrow.

More than one billion dollars is spent annually in the U.S. on breast cancer research. This video will help you understand the types of research those dollars fund.

BRCA1 (BR is short for breast; CA is short for cancer) and BRCA2 are breast cancer gene mutations. In this video, you will learn about these mutations and the option of genetic testing.

Breast cancer is not just one disease. Some breast tumors are HER2-positive. In this video you will learn about how tumors are tested to see if they are HER2-positive and about treatments available for women whose tumors are HER2-positive.

All breast tumors are tested to see if they are hormone sensitive. Those tumors that are hormone sensitive will typically respond to anti-estrogen treatments. In this video, you will learn about hormone-sensitive breast cancer.

LCIS is an acronym for lobular carcinoma in situ. LCIS is typically diagnosed after a breast biopsy. It is not breast cancer, but it does increase breast cancer risk. In this video, you will learn about LCIS and how it is treated.