Selected articles on cancer research for this time period include:

• Rates of death in the United States from all cancers for men and women continued to decline between 2003 and 2007, the most recent reporting period available, according to the latest Annual Report to the Nation on the Status of Cancer.
• From US Today, new research suggests examining cells from a woman’s breast milk may help evaluate future breast health. 
• MIT cancer biologists have identified a genetic change that makes lung tumors more likely to spread to other parts of the body.
• A team from the Washington University School of Medicine and the Siteman Cancer Center, St. Louis, has sequenced whole genomes of tumors from 50 women with luminal (ER and/or PR positive) HER2 negative breast cancer. In discussing the study, Dr. Ellis commented that “while analyses of whole genome expression allow us to further categorize breast tumors into subtypes of clinical importance, we still do not have a good understanding of the cancer biology behind many of the identified gene sets.”