Breast Cancer
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Aromatase inhibitors, bisphosphonates cut postmenopausal breast cancer recurrence
Key clinical point: Aromatase inhibitors (AIs) and bisphosphonates help prevent recurrence of early-stage breast cancer in postmenopausal women....
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Nodal irradiation improved breast cancer disease-free but not overall survival
Key clinical point: Regional lymph node irradiation improved disease-free but not overall survival in women with breast cancer treated with other...
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Inflammatory metastatic breast cancer with gallbladder metastasis: an incidental finding
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Harnessing new data on immunotherapies
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ASCO 2015: from data and learning, to daily practice
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RAI given to thyroid CA patients does not increase their breast malignancy occurrence, recurrence
A study showed that radioactive iodine therapy did not significantly increase the incidence of breast cancer subsequent to the diagnosis of...
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Study suggests mammography results in ‘widespread overdiagnosis’
In regions where more women undergo screening mammography, the detection of small cancers increases but mortality doesn’t change significantly,...
Clinical Topics & News
Dividing to Conquer Breast Cancer
Since 2010, cancer registries have been required to report both HR and HER2 status, allowing researchers to more accurately stratify breast cancer...
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Based on interval cancer rates, which women with dense breasts are most likely to benefit from supplemental imaging?
The authors of this prospective study involving more than 350,000 patients observed high interval cancer rates for women with 5-year breast cancer...
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Urea cream bests antioxidant ointment to prevent chemo-induced hand-foot syndrome
Key clinical point: Urea cream was superior to Mapisal, an antioxidant-containing ointment, in preventing hand-foot syndrome (HFS) among patients...