Breast Cancer
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Should all women be routinely screened for lung cancer?
Study suggests lung cancer screening guidelines should be reassessed to include all women, especially breast cancer survivors.
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Variants of nine breast cancer genes associated with severe disease
Findings may potentially inform guidelines for gene panel testing. Breast cancer gene variants most often associated with triple-negative and/or...
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Poor trial representation tied to worse breast cancer survival
Patient groups such as patients of color, older patients, and those with comorbidities are not well represented in clinical trials, and it remains...
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Sentinel-lymph-node biopsies rising in patients with inflammatory breast cancer, against guidelines
“They deserve their best chance of cure and, based on the existing data, that includes an axillary-lymph-node dissection rather than a sentinel-...
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Breast cancer trials enrolling now: Could your patient benefit?
Menopausal women at moderate risk of breast cancer, early high-risk candidates, and more sought for clinical trials.
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Experimental breast cancer immunotherapy treatment passes important hurdle in pilot study
Tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes show promise in six patients.
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Pyrotinib plus capecitabine promising for HER2-positive breast cancer brain metastases
The combination “can be a reasonable option for HER2-positive breast cancer brain metastasis.”
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Increase in late-stage cancer diagnoses after pandemic
“Patients who have delayed preventative care during the pandemic should be encouraged to resume treatment as soon as possible.”
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Breast cancer now leading cause of cancer death in Black women
"Black women are 41% more likely to die from breast cancer than White women despite a lower risk of being diagnosed with the disease."
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Cost not a factor in radiotherapy type for breast cancer patients
“Hypofractionated radiotherapy represents significant savings to both the health care system and to individual patients. It may soon become the...
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Some U.S. women not getting ET for curable breast cancer
Half of breast cancer patients eligible for endocrine therapy are not receiving tamoxifen and aromatase inhibitors.