Breast Cancer
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ASCO: AIs reduce risk of contralateral breast cancer in patients with BRCA mutation
Aromase inhibitors may reduce the rate of contralateral breast cancer in women who already have the disease and are positive for BRCA mutations....
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ASCO: Radiotherapy not needed for all women post mastectomy
Key clinical point: Radiotherapy following mastectomy should not be routinely recommended for breast cancer patients with microscopic nodal...
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ASCO: Racial disparity in HER2+ breast cancer survival subsided after trastuzumab approval
Key clinical point: The well-documented disparity in survival between black and white patients with HER2+ breast cancer was not observed during a...
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ASCO: Overall survival similar regardless of distant relapse site in breast cancer
Key clinical point: In patients with metastatic breast cancer, initial distant relapse site had little influence on overall survival rates. Major...
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Treating women with metastatic breast cancer takes toll
Key clinical point: Many medical oncologists experience the negative emotional impact of their work when treating patients with metastatic breast...
Conference Coverage
NLR correlates with survival in advanced breast cancer
Key clinical point: Neutrophil lymphocyte ratio (NLR) can be correlated with poor disease-specific survival in stage IV breast cancer and the...
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Histologic information can’t replace recurrence score
Key clinical point: A combination of three histologic variables (tumor size, grade, and cellular proliferation marker Ki67) failed to accurately...
Article
A qualitative exploration of supports and unmet needs of diverse young women with breast cancer
Conference Coverage
Implementation of the 21-Gene Risk Score Assay, OncotypeDx Breast, Within the VA
Abstract 54: 2015 AVAHO Meeting
Conference Coverage
Testing for BRCA1/BRCA2 in the VA
Abstract 60: 2015 AVAHO Meeting