Up to 90 off textbooks at amazon canada plus free two day shipping for six months when you sign up for amazon prime for students. New developments in breast cancer research horizons in cancer research uploaded by gilbert patten ongoing studies are looking at ways to enhance current breast cancer screening options technological advances in imaging are creating new opportunities for improvements in both screening and early detection one new technology is 3 d mammography also called breast tomosynthesis new new developments . While much of the science on this topic is still in its earliest stages this is an area of active research reducing breast cancer risk researchers continue to look for medicines that might help lower breast cancer risk especially women who are at high risk estrogen blocking drugs are typically used to help treat breast cancer but some might also help prevent it tamoxifen and raloxifene . To that end here are seven important new developments in breast cancer research predicting breast cancer in an embryo in a new study in nature scientific reports researchers describe how an inexpensive genomic analysis can predict a persons health risk for a range of diseases including breast cancer heart disease diabetes and more new methods from machine learning and ai