Breast Cancer
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Response-guided neoadjuvant chemotherapy may boost survival
Major finding: Disease-free survival and overall survival were longer with response-guided neoadjuvant chemotherapy vs.
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Abbreviated MRI breast cancer screening protocol accurate
Major finding: MRI screening identified 11 cancers, for an additional yield of 18 cancers per 1,000 examinations beyond what could be detected by...
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Perioperative MRI fails to reduce recurrence risk in women with ductal carcinoma in situ
Major finding: Women who received MRI in addition to conventional imaging did not have a lower 5-year rate of locoregional recurrence when...
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Most women misestimate their breast cancer risk
Major Finding: Overall, 44.7% of women underestimated their risk and 45.9% overestimated their risk, while just 9.4% gave an accurate estimate....
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No increase in cardiovascular risk seen after radiation therapy for DCIS
Major finding: The rate of CVD diagnosis did not differ between patients treated with surgery alone and patients treated with surgery plus...
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Minimizing cancer’s impact on bone with denosumab: current and future perspectives
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Occult cancer: suspected breast and BRCA gene mutations
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Adjuvant ibandronate adds no benefit in early stage, node-positive breast cancer
Major finding: In patients randomly assigned to 2 years of ibandronate or observation, there was no difference in disease-free survival (HR, 0.945...
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Long-term amenorrhea risk no higher for premenopausal breast cancer patients with BRCA mutations
Major finding: The probabilities of chemotherapy-induced amenorrhea were 7.2% for women diagnosed at or before age 30 years, 33% for women...
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Lymph node status predicted 10-year mortality in BRCA1 mutation carriers with small, stage I-III breast cancers
Major finding: Based on BRCA1 status alone, the 10-year survival rate for mutation carriers was 80.9% (95% CI, 75.4%-86.4%); for noncarriers, it...