Breast cancer: from the "death sentence" to chronic disease

The study of spontaneous tumors in animals can help cure cancer in humans.

Felisbina Queiroga, researcher and professor at the University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro (UTAD), says that "the cancer paradigm means that a" death sentence "is in the process of change ", adding that"
These words are based on studies in veterinary medicine on the clinical and molecular similarities of inflammatory breast carcinomas between female and female, which reinforce the dog as a spontaneous model. for the study of these tumors and open up encouraging prospects for contribution to research for cancer cure in humans.
Immunotherapy as an innovative method of cancer treatment is already being developed by several companies, will involve the activation of the immune system itself According to Felisbina Queiroga, it will be "one of the areas that will be developed in the next "
The research team has developed several work related to the inflammatory infiltrate present in the stroma of breast cancer, noting that" there is a relationship between the amount of macrophages and lymphocytes present in tumor stroma and prognosis
Felisbina Queiroga is co-author (with other researchers from the Department of Veterinary Sciences of UTAD and UK research centers, United States of America and United States of America) Algeria) of an article published recently in the scientific journal Seminars in Oncology, where the subject is debated.