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Breast cancer: Hope in sight for improved tamoxifen therapy?
Eventually, the idea is to combine treatment with antiestrogens with a medicinal product that promotes localization of PRMT5 in the nucleus to...
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Cancer rates rise among people under age 50
“If we don’t understand what’s causing this risk and we can’t do something to change it, we’re afraid that as time goes on, it’s going to become a...
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Alcohol consumption may not influence breast cancer prognosis, study
The findings could help in developing specific guidelines related to the prevention of breast cancer recurrence and death in survivors.
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Scalp cooling for chemo hair loss strikes out with patients
“The efficacy and tolerability of [scalp cooling] applied in a clinical routine setting ... appeared to be limited.”
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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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Considering the true costs of clinical trials
There are many subtle and some egregious ways that participating in clinical trials can result in increased costs.
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PPIs may curb benefits of palbociclib in breast cancer
“The findings suggest that taking PPIs with palbociclib may interrupt the full therapeutic benefits of palbociclib,” the authors conclude.
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Black women weigh emerging risks of ‘creamy crack’ hair straighteners
Mounting evidence now shows that chemical straighteners could be a health hazard.
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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...
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Cancer diagnoses, care access rise after Medicaid expansion
In Ohio, researchers found a substantial increase in diagnoses for all three cancers among Medicaid patients after expansion.