• Question: do you no enithing about brest canser

    Asked by simona123 to Amar, Ana, Andrea, Leah, Matt on 7 Mar 2014. This question was also asked by cupcake94.
    • Photo: Matthew Lam

      Matthew Lam answered on 7 Mar 2014:

      Yes, I have a PhD from doing research on breast cancer. I investigated how to kill breast cancer cells with a chemical from a plant.

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      Anastasia Wass answered on 7 Mar 2014:

      I’m still doing my PhD but I use breast cancer cells in my research so I know a little bit!
      For example – men can get breast cancer to it’s not just girls!

    • Photo: Andrea Hanvey

      Andrea Hanvey answered on 7 Mar 2014:

      I know quite a bit about breast cancer. Our laboratory receives breast core biopsies from patients and looks at the cells down the microscope to see if they have breast cancer. We also perform specific tests to see what treatment a patient may respond to.

      Interesting fact: If a patient does have their breast removed for cancer, before we dissect the specimen we paint the breast different colours so we know which area of the breast has been sampled.

    • Photo: Leah Fitzsimmons

      Leah Fitzsimmons answered on 12 Mar 2014:

      I work on lymphoma, which is a type of white blood cell cancer. Because your blood cells go all around your body lymphomas tumours don’t always grow in the same place, and they can sometimes affect the breasts. You can tell breast lymphoma from other types of breast cancer by looking at the cancer cells down a microscope.
      It is also important to remember that researchers working on one type of cancer might find out something that is also true about other types of cancer.

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