Research into breast cancer treatments continues apace and a new study to be presented at the end of May at the American Society of Clinical Oncology annual meeting in Chicago introduces us to a new treatment that blocks signals within the cancer cell that cause it to grow and spread.

• Dr. Kathy Pritchard, Senior scientist of clinical epidemiology at Sunnybrook Research Institute
  Professor in the departments of medicine and public health sciences, faculty of medicine, University of Toronto
  Past Chair of the National Cancer Institute of Canada Clinical Trials Breast Cancer Site Group and the Clinical Director of the Ontario Clinical Oncology Group