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Colleagues pay tribute to cancer researcher Patti Keely

June 30, 2017

It would be easy to simply say Patti Keely was a world-class, nationally recognized breast cancer researcher at the UW School of Medicine and Public…

Study: Some women need more frequent mammograms

August 22, 2016

One size doesn’t fit all women in clothing, and neither should all women have mammograms on the same schedule, a new national study concludes.

Breast stem cell research: Receptor teamwork required and a new pathway may be involved

May 30, 2012

Breast-cancer researchers at the University of Wisconsin–Madison have found that two related receptors in a robust signaling pathway must work together as a team to maintain normal activity in mammary stem cells.

Age at first pregnancy associated with breast cancer risk

December 1, 2010

Having children later in life or not at all, combined with a trend in obesity may increase risk of a breast cancer that is hard to detect.

New MRI technique could mean fewer breast biopsies in high-risk women

June 29, 2009

A University of Wisconsin–Madison biomedical engineer and colleagues have developed a method that, applied in MRI scans of the breast, could spare some women with increased breast cancer risk the pain and stress of having to endure a biopsy of a questionable lump or lesion.

Study: Breast cancer patients with greater need seek more information online

June 18, 2008

Patients with more concerns about their breast cancer are heavier users of online information, according to a new study conducted by the University of Wisconsin–Madison Center for Excellence in Cancer Communications Research, funded by the National Cancer Institute.

With rat genome as guide, human breast cancer risk refined

April 2, 2007

Combing the genomes of the rat and the human, researchers at the University of Wisconsin–Madison have found swaths of genetic code that can be used to assess the risk of human breast cancer.