Breast Cancer
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ACA now covers preventive medicine for women at increased risk for breast cancer
Drugs such as tamoxifen and raloxifene are now covered without co-pays or co-insurance
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Extracorporeal shock wave therapy promising for lymphedema
Major finding: Women with lymphedema following axillary lymphadenectomy had a median 192.5-mL reduction in whole-arm water volume displacement...
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Survival no better after primary tumor removal in metastatic breast cancer
Major finding: There was no significant difference in overall survival with surgery vs. systemic therapy in either the Indian trial (5-year rate,...
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No overall benefit seen with bisphosphonate treatment in chemoresistant breast cancer
Major finding: Women with residual tumor after neoadjuvant chemotherapy who were randomized to adjuvant zoledronate didn’t have a lower risk of...
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Novel treatment promising for chronic neuropathic postmastectomy pain
Major finding: Injection of a combination of bupivacaine and dexamethasone at well-defined sites of maximum pain and tenderness resolved pain at...
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Primary care screening advised to select women for BRCA counseling
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Exercise protects black women against ER-negative breast cancer
Major finding: Black women who reported engaging in an average of least 3 hours of vigorous exercise per week over their lifetime had a 47%...
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Findings set stage for immunomodulatory approaches in breast cancer
Major finding: For every 10% increment in stromal tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes present at the time of diagnosis of HER2-positive breast cancer,...
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Breast MRI screening finds undetected cancers in 11 per 1,000 average-risk women
Major finding: Breast MRI screening of women who were at average risk for breast cancer and already had a negative mammogram had a breast cancer...
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Add-on agents boost neoadjuvant chemo response in triple-negative disease
Major finding: Carboplatin improved the odds of pCR by 71%-76% with some additional toxicity; bevacizumab improved the odds of pCR by 58% with...