A Hormonal and Cell Cycle Centered Approach to Breast Cancer
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https://doi.org/10.47611/jsrhs.v12i4.5922Keywords:
Cancer, Cell Cycle, Hormones, Estrogen, Progesterone, Mitosis, Breast Cancer, CDK-6, Cyclin, Indole - 3 - Carbinol, metastasis, Pregnancy, Triple Negative Breast Cancer, Luminal Breast Cancer, Tamoxifen, Chemotherapy, Hormone TherapyAbstract
In the year 2022 alone, almost 2 million new cancer cases have plagued just the United States, breast cancer being the most threatening for women (Łukasiewicz et al., 2021). It is important to advance our scientific understanding of cancer, to improve our surgical techniques, and to administer more efficient chemotherapy. While all of this is true, it is just as important to focus on prevention. To focus on the fundamental understandings of the cell cycle and hormones, and how they can play a major factor in preventing breast cancer. And to also focus on finding compounds like Indole 3 Carbinol which is present in our food, to teach us how certain environmental and lifestyle changes might keep us healthier for longer and prevent mutations in our cell cycles.
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