Breast Cancer
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Women with ER-positive breast Ca may soon extend tamoxifen therapy to 10 years
A new study confirms that 10 years of tamoxifen significantly lowers the breast cancer mortality rate during the second decade after diagnosis,...
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New tool predicts late recurrence in breast cancer
Major Finding: Among patients who remained disease free at 5 years, the 61% with a low baseline BCI score had a 3.5% rate of distant recurrence...
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Minimally invasive breast biopsy lags in Texas
Major Finding: During 2008, 79% of Texas women aged 66 years or older undergoing breast biopsy had a minimally-invasive procedure.Data Source: A...
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Neoadjuvant chemo renders SLN biopsy less reliable
Major Finding: The false-negative rates of SLN biopsy were 14% for patients who had a chemotherapy-induced downstaging from cN1 to cN0 disease and...
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Metabolic syndrome skews Oncotype DX reliability
Major Finding: Of 322 patients with low-risk early-stage breast cancer, 89 (27%) met World Health Organization criteria for metabolic syndrome. So...
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Cancer deaths declined 20% since 1991
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New geriatric assessments aid cancer treatment decisions
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Primary care inaccurately estimates cancer risk
Major Finding: For a woman at high risk for ovarian cancer, 35% of surveyed physicians correctly estimated that risk, and 11% thought her risk was...
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Tips on counseling women about mammography screening
How does Dr. Kaunitz counsel women of different age groups and risk categories?
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Is “overdiagnosis” of breast cancer common among women screened by mammography?
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Genes predict adjuvant trastuzumab outcomes in HER2-positive breast cancer
Major Finding: Thirty-two genes strongly correlated with 5-year outcomes of adjuvant chemotherapy and trastuzumab therapy.Data Source: A gene...