Optimize IAS
  • Home
  • About Us
  • Courses
    • Prelims Test Series
      • LAQSHYA 2026 Prelims Mentorship
    • Mains Mentorship
      • Arjuna 2026 Mains Mentorship
  • Portal Login
  • Home
  • About Us
  • Courses
    • Prelims Test Series
      • LAQSHYA 2026 Prelims Mentorship
    • Mains Mentorship
      • Arjuna 2026 Mains Mentorship
  • Portal Login

Breast cancer: more insights on how hormonal therapy works

  • January 29, 2023
  • Posted by: OptimizeIAS Team
  • Category: DPN Topics
No Comments

 

 

Breast cancer: more insights on how hormonal therapy works

Subject: Science and technology

Section: Biotechnology

Concept:

  • Work carried out by researchers from the Integrated Cancer Genomics Laboratory at the Advanced Centre for Training, Research, and Education in Cancer (ACTREC) in Mumbai’s Tata Memorial Centre has shed more light on the molecular mechanism through which progesterone treatment prior to breast cancer surgery is quite likely to increase the survival rates of patients.

Hormone Therapy for Breast Cancer

  • Some types of breast cancer are affected by hormones, like estrogen and progesterone.
  • The breast cancer cells have receptors (proteins) that attach to estrogen and progesterone, which helps them grow.
  • Most types of hormone therapy either lower estrogen levels in the body or stop estrogen from helping breast cancer cells grow.
  • Hormone therapy can reach cancer cells almost anywhere in the body and not just in the breast.
  • It’s recommended for women with tumors that are hormone receptor-positive. It does not help women whose tumors don’t have hormone receptors (these tumors are called hormone receptor-negative).
  • Hormone therapy is often used after surgery (as adjuvant therapy) to help reduce the risk of the cancer coming back.
  • Sometimes it is started before surgery (as neoadjuvant therapy).
  • It is usually taken for at least 5 years.
Breast cancer: more insights on how hormonal therapy works Science and tech

Recent Posts

  • Daily Prelims Notes 23 March 2025 March 23, 2025
  • Challenges in Uploading Voting Data March 23, 2025
  • Fertilizers Committee Warns Against Under-Funding of Nutrient Subsidy Schemes March 23, 2025
  • Tavasya: The Fourth Krivak-Class Stealth Frigate Launched March 23, 2025
  • Indo-French Naval Exercise Varuna 2024 March 23, 2025
  • No Mismatch Between Circulating Influenza Strains and Vaccine Strains March 23, 2025
  • South Cascade Glacier March 22, 2025
  • Made-in-India Web Browser March 22, 2025
  • Charting a route for IORA under India’s chairship March 22, 2025
  • Mar-a-Lago Accord and dollar devaluation March 22, 2025

About

If IAS is your destination, begin your journey with Optimize IAS.

Hi There, I am Santosh I have the unique distinction of clearing all 6 UPSC CSE Prelims with huge margins.

I mastered the art of clearing UPSC CSE Prelims and in the process devised an unbeatable strategy to ace Prelims which many students struggle to do.

Contact us

moc.saiezimitpo@tcatnoc

For More Details

Work with Us

Connect With Me

Course Portal
Search