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Join Penn at the Race for the Cure on Mother's Day

The 25th Annual Komen Philadelphia Race for the Cure® is a Mother’s Day tradition benefiting breast cancer research, education, screening and treatment.

The Penn Medicine Breast Health Initiative (PMBHI) was recently awarded $100,000 from t...

Join Penn at the Race for the Cure on Mother’s Day

Join us for the 25th Annual Komen Philadelphia Race for the Cure® on Mother’s Day!

Ormeloxifene Suppresses Desmoplasia and Enhances Sensitivity of Gemcitabine in Pancreatic Cancer

The management of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) is extremely poor due to lack of an efficient therapy and development of chemoresistance to the current standard therapy, gemcitabine (GEM). Recent studies implicate the intimate reciprocal inte...

Ormeloxifene Suppresses Desmoplasia in Pancreatic Cancer

The management of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) is extremely poor due to lack of an efficient therapy and development of chemoresistance to the current standard therapy, gemcitabine. Recent studies implicate the intimate reciprocal interacti...

Leptin-STAT3-G9a signaling promotes obesity-mediated breast cancer progression

Obesity has been linked to breast cancer progression but the underlying mechanisms remain obscure. Here we report how leptin, an obesity-associated adipokine, regulates a transcriptional pathway to silence a genetic program of epithelial homeostasis in...