{"id":8086,"date":"2019-06-25T19:19:37","date_gmt":"2019-06-25T19:19:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cmshub.wpengine.com\/?p=252186"},"modified":"2024-11-03T15:17:11","modified_gmt":"2024-11-03T15:17:11","slug":"her-mother-died-of-breast-cancer-when-she-was-five-16-years-later-shes-working-on-the-cure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/her-mother-died-of-breast-cancer-when-she-was-five-16-years-later-shes-working-on-the-cure\/","title":{"rendered":"Her Mother Died of Breast Cancer When She Was Five. 16 Years Later, She\u2019s Working on the Cure"},"content":{"rendered":"

Crystal Smith was just 44 years old when she passed away from breast cancer. She left behind a husband and three small children, including Shelby, who was just 5 years old at the time. She also left behind a legacy at Lexington Medical Center, where she\u2019d volunteered for 22 years.<\/span>Crystal\u2019s family has always felt the need to make a difference in others\u2019 lives out of gratitude for their time with her, and they\u2019ve done it in a myriad of ways. While she was still alive, her husband set up a fund to help other women with the financial burden<\/a> of cancer treatment and lost incomes, and that fund still helps people today. And now, 16 years after Crystal\u2019s death, her daughter Shelby is working on curing the same cancer that killed her.<\/span>\"\"<\/span>Photo: WLTX 19 News<\/a><\/span>Shelby is a student at Clemson University<\/a>, South Carolina, and is working as a researcher on a project with other veterinary science students. Their aim is to make a breakthrough in the treatment of triple-negative breast cancer, an aggressive form of breast cancer that tends to spread quickly and often impacts people at younger ages than other breast cancers.<\/span>
\n<\/span>\"\"<\/span>Photo: WLTX 19 News<\/a><\/span>Unlike estrogen and progesterone receptor-positive forms of the disease, triple-negative breast cancer<\/a> does not have any hormone receptors that researchers can use to target it. It doesn\u2019t feed off any hormones that we know of, so we can\u2019t starve it by getting rid of those hormones. This means that treating it is vastly more difficult.<\/span>\"\"<\/span>Photo: WLTX 19 News<\/a><\/span>
\n<\/span>Between its lack of receptors and its aggressiveness, triple-negative is the deadliest form of breast cancer out there. It\u2019s also relatively rare, which means it hasn\u2019t always had enough research dedicated to it. But that\u2019s all about to change, thanks to Shelby\u2019s dedicated team.<\/span>\u201cWe\u2019re looking at using a swine model to model it to a normal breast cancer, just to see if the signals that are being turned on are the same signals that are being turned on in cancer,\u201d says Shelby<\/a>.<\/span>The research has only been in progress for two semesters, but experts are already taking note of it. This study promises to open new avenues for the development of better treatments for triple-negative, which would be a huge win for the cancer community.<\/span>Shelby knows her mom would be proud of her research.<\/span>\u201cI try to live every day like she\u2019s just right there beside me,\u201d she says.<\/span>Take a look at Shelby\u2019s story in the video below.<\/span>Proper BCS greatergood_ctg_abovevideo<\/span><\/span>Source<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Crystal Smith was just 44 years old when she passed away from breast cancer. She left behind a husband and three small children, including Shelby, who was just 5 years old at the time. She also left behind a legacy at Lexington Medical Center, where she\u2019d volunteered for 22 years.Crystal\u2019s family has always felt the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8087,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8086"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8086\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44480,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8086\/revisions\/44480"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}