Breast Cancer
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Score helps predict late distant metastases in ER-positive breast cancer
Major Finding: Patients with a low vs. high EndoPredict clinical score at 5 years of follow-up were five times as likely to be free of distant...
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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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Variation by age in neutropenic complications among patients with cancer receiving chemotherapy
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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...
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SLN surgery may suffice for node-positive breast cancer
Major Finding: SLN surgery correctly identified axillary nodal status in 91.2% of patients.
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Diabetes confers 27% increase in breast cancer risk
Major Finding: Diabetes is associated with a 27% increased risk of breast cancer, with the elevated risk restricted to postmenopausal women with...
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'Chemobrain' starts before chemotherapy in breast cancer study
Major Finding: Women scheduled to undergo chemotherapy after surgery for breast cancer were significantly more likely to show low brain activation...