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    $5.9M Grant Adds Androgen Receptor as a New Driver and Target in Breast Cancer

    October 1, 2013 · Comments Off

    A major Department of Defense grant to researchers Jennifer Richer, PhD, and Anthony Elias, MD, at the University of Colorado Cancer Center aids development of drugs that target androgen receptors as a driver of breast cancer.

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Stop Signals
May 31, 2013 · Comments Off

Researchers at University of Colorado Cancer Center are discovering how androgens drive diseases such as breast and bladder cancers.

Overwhelming evidence adds a major new target in breast cancer: androgens including testosterone. Image: Flickr/khrawlings

AACR News: Studies show increasing evidence that androgen drives breast cancer
April 10, 2013 · Comments Off

Estrogen and progesterone receptors, and the gene HER2 – these are the big three markers and/or targets in breast cancer. Evidence presented at the AACR Annual Meeting 2013 adds a fourth: androgen receptors.

Like a burr, cancer cells wave receptors designed to trap things they need -- researchers hope that blocking the androgen receptors of AR+ breast cancer cells will stop the signals of growth. Image: Flickr/gomagoti

Clinical trial hits new target in war on breast cancer
December 3, 2012 · Comments Off

KEY POINTS: In addition to estrogen, progesterone and HER2, androgen drives breast cancer The drug...

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Annual retreat shows the CU Cancer Center is greater than the sum of its parts
October 31, 2012 · Comments Off

At the annual CU Cancer Center retreat on October 30, Deputy Director Andrew Thorburn, PhD,...

Jennifer Richer, PhD, investigator at the University of Colorado Cancer Center and assistant professor of pathology at the University of Colorado School of Medicine

Decoding Cancer: Androgen – a new hormone target in triple-negative breast cancers?
October 13, 2011 · 2 comments

In this every-second-Thursday “Decoding Cancer” series in Target Cancer, and in honor of National Breast...

Safeway stores donated $350,000 to the CU Cancer Center for breast cancer research. Dr. Anthony Elias and Strode Weaver accepted the big check from Safeway store manager Eric Holmes, and Safeway Inc.'s Debbie Portwood and Kris Staaf.

Safeway gift brings total breast cancer research support at CU Cancer Center above $1 million
April 22, 2011 · Comments Off

A $350,000 gift from Safeway, Inc. will fund breast cancer research at the University of...

Buchmeier: CIC sets sky-high goals to benefit our patients
November 9, 2010 · Comments Off

When I came to manage the UCCC Clinical Investigations Core in the summer of 2004,...

New trial for women with triple-negative breast cancer opens at UCCC
November 3, 2010 · Comments Off

PARP inhibitor could increase prognosis for women with residual cancer in tumor samples For clinical...

Safeway donates $176,000 to UCCC breast cancer research
April 21, 2010 · Comments Off

Check-stand “rounding up” program results in $800,000 total gift to program since 2007 Breast cancer...

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