Test Helps Identify Patients With Breast Cancer Who Will Likely Benefit From Chemotherapy
Researchers have studied if OncoPlan can help identify breast cancer patients who would benefit most from chemotherapy.
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Exercisers May Have Better Breast Cancer Survival
Women with breast cancer who reported the highest levels of physical activity in the year before they were diagnosed with breast cancer may have higher survival.
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New Breast Cancer Screening Tool Helps General Practitioners
A new breast cancer screening tool for the general practitioner effectively identifies patients at risk for hereditary breast cancer.
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MRI More Accurately Determines Cancer Spread Into Breast Ducts
For determining if and how far breast cancer has spread into the breast ducts MRI is better than MDCT and should be used before patients receive breast conserving therapy.
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Suspicion Lingers Over Bisphenol A and Breast Cancer
The researchers present a model for the selective uptake of BPA into breast cancer cells by implicating human enzymes that sulfate and de sulfate BPA.
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More Than Half of Breast Cancer Patients May Skip Medication
It is vital that women with breast cancer do not deny themselves the chance of the maximum possible benefit from their medication treatment.
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Imaging Technique Helps Predict Breast Cancer Spread Before Surgery
Whole body positron emission tomography (PET) scans could help physicians determine whether breast cancer has spread to the lymph nodes in the armpit prior to surgery.
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Protein Found To Protect Breast Cancer Tumors From Chemotherapy
Finding may help women get more effective breast cancer treatment.
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Adverse Effects and Costs of Chemotherapy Greater Than Previously Thought
Breast cancer patients 63 years of age or younger may experience more chemotherapy related serious adverse effects than reported in clinical trials.
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More Complete View of Breast Cancer Gene Mutations in US Population
The majority of breast cancer cases are caused by genetic changes that occur during a woman's lifetime, but researchers estimate inherited mutations play a role in anywhere from 5 to 27% of all breast cancer cases.
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Ancient War Paint in Fight Against Breast Cancer
Glucobrassicin has been found to be effective against breast cancer.
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Breast Cancer Survivors Change Lifestyle After Diagnosis
Breast cancer survivors' beliefs about what may have caused their cancer are connected to whether they make healthy lifestyle changes after a cancer diagnosis.
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Herceptin Effective In Breast Cancer Cells With Low HER-2 Levels
The monoclonal antibody Herceptin (trastuzumab) used in combination with certain cancer chemotherapies effectively treats breast cancer tumors.
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Early Exposure To Synthetic Estrogen Puts 'DES Daughters' At Higher Risk for Breast Cancer
DES exposed women are developing the typical range of breast cancers after age 40 at a faster rate than non exposed women of the same ages.
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Do Close Surgical Margins Predict If Breast Cancer Will Return?
Cancer cells present after additional surgery for breast cancer may predict whether a woman will see her cancer return.
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Variation In CHEK2 Gene May Triple Breast Cancer Risk
A woman's risk of breast cancer in her lifetime may be tripled by a specific variation in the CHEK2 gene.
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Carefully Mixed Radiation Cocktail Reduces Collateral Damage In Breast Cancer Patients
A carefully determined mixture of electron and x ray beams precisely treated breast tumors while significantly reducing collateral skin damage.
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Paternal-Side Family History of Breast Cancer May Be Missed
Could contribute to inaccurate screening of breast cancer.
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Breast Cancer Prevention Drug Has Little Impact on Mortality
Tamoxifen as a breast cancer prevention drug has little impact on overall mortality rates for most "high risk" women.
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Tamoxifen for Breast Cancer Prevention Does Not Benefit Most Women
Breast cancer positive treatment effects from the drug Tamoxifen are only experienced by women with a very high risk for the cancer.
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Breast Stem Cells Have Features Similar To 'Basal' Tumours
The most aggressive form of breast cancer may originate from breast stem cells that have undergone genetic mishaps.
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Breast Cancer Doesn't Have to Mean Losing Your Breast
Study on breast cancer highlights options for women with breast implants.
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Concentrated Doses of Radiotherapy Shown To Be Better In Treating Breast Cancer
Giving breast cancer patients fewer but larger doses of radiotherapy for treatment may be as safe and as effective at reducing the risk of cancer returning.
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Scientists Unravel Breast Cancer Risk Gene Mystery
The risk of developing breast cancer is doubled in women who inherit a damaged version of a gene called ATM.
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Women Students Know Nothing of Lifestyle Links To Breast Cancer
The vast majority of women students worldwide know nothing about the lifestyle habits that can influence breast cancer risk and symptoms.
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Boosting Killer Cells Might Improve Breast-Cancer Drug
A drug that targets a particular type of breast cancer might be more effective if patients are also given a substance made by the body that stimulates certain immune cells.
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Gene Screen For Breast Cancer Better Than Pathologist's 'Eye'
A method is twice as accurate at spotting breast cancer cells as a pathologist's view with a microscope.
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Weight Gain May Increase Risk of Breast Cancer in Postmenopausal Women
Weight gain, particularly after menopause, is associated with an increased risk of breast cancer in women.
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Drug Combination May Slow Male Breast Cancer Growth
By treating male breast cancer with a combination of anastrozole and a synthetic hormone called goserelin physicians may be able to stop the transition of the male hormone testosterone to the estrogen estradiol.
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Advantages of New Breast Cancer Radiation Treatment
A new therapy allows women diagnosed with breast cancer to reduce the time needed for radiation treatment.
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Finding of a New Molecular Marker of Resistance To Chemotherapy in Breast Cancer
This new finding not only predicts chemotherapy response in breast cancer before beginning of treatment, but it also permits to act upon (NF) ĸB, deactivate it and promote chemotherapy response.
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Breast-Sparing Surgery an Option for Women with Breast Cancer Gene Mutation
Hormonal treatments reduce risk of breast cancer returning, finds 10 year study.
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Better Survival Seen for Early Breast Cancer Patients Switched from Tamoxifen to Aromasin
17% lower chance of dying and 25% lower risk of breast cancer recurrence in postmenopausal hormone sensitive patients switching to Aromasin rather than staying on Tamoxifen.
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MR Spectroscopy Significantly Reduces Need for Breast Biopsy
By performing a brief MR spectroscopy doctors can noninvasively see which tumors show elevated choline levels, a sign of breast tumor.
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Use of Breast MRI Can Be Cost-Effective for Some Women At High-Risk of Breast Cancer
Adding breast MRI screening may be cost effective for women of certain ages who carry the BRCA1 and BRCA2 gene mutations.
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Long-Term Estrogen Therapy Linked To Breast Cancer Risk
Higher risk of breast cancer among postmenopausal women may be related to long term estrogen therapy.
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Lobular Breast Cancer Can Be Managed as Ductal Cancer
Invasive lobular carcinoma of the breast can be treated with breast conserving surgery, as is invasive ductal carcinoma, without greater future risk of radical surgical treatment.
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Breast Conservation a Good Option for Non-invasive, 'Early' Breast Cancer
Follow up mammograms reliable for detecting return of breast cancer.
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Patients Have High Expectations About Screening Mammography
Many women's beliefs on personal risk of breast cancer and expectations about the performance of mammography are unrealistic.
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Inflammation Markers Identify Fatigue in Breast Cancer Survivors
The study identifies a biological basis for persistent fatigue in breast cancer survivors that is implemented by inflammation.
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