Breast Cancer
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How useful are circulating tumor cells for early diagnosis?
Their link with metastases, and thus with aggressive tumors, gives them an advantage over other (noninvasive or minimally invasive) biomarkers in...
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AI-supported breast screens may reduce radiologist workload
The potential for overdiagnosis or overdetection of indolent lesions in the intervention group should “prompt caution in the interpretation of...
Opinion
The unique approach involved in age-specific concerns surrounding young patients with breast cancer
We need to take care of many things, which can go from their job, family, fertility, and all these things are specific to these women and can...
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Fatalities from breast cancer have ‘improved substantially’
Women diagnosed with early-stage breast cancer are more likely to become long-term survivors of the disease now than they were 20 years ago.
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U.S. mammogram update sparks concern, reignites debates
“These findings suggest that health policy makers and clinicians could consider an alternative, race and ethnicity–adapted approach in which Black...
News
Interrupting radiotherapy for TNBC linked to worse survival
“All reasonable efforts should be made to prevent any treatment interruptions,” including “prophylactic measures to reduce the severity of...
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Fatigue after breast cancer radiotherapy: Who’s most at risk?
Risk factors, including pain, insomnia, depression, baseline fatigue, and endocrine therapy, were associated with long-term fatigue, new data show...
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Higher risk of death with endocrine therapy nonadherence
“Importantly, improving adherence and persistence represents a low-hanging fruit for increasing survival in luminal breast cancer.”
Expert Perspective
Circulating Tumor DNA Testing and Liquid Biopsy: The Future for Precision Medicine and Guided Targeted Therapy for Breast Cancer?
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PET-CT scans move more women with LABC up to stage IV
The results of a new study comparing the use of PET-CT with conventional methods for staging locally advanced breast cancer has already changed...