Breast Cancer
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How is a woman determined to have dense breast tissue?
Challenge your dense breast knowledge with this quiz series from DenseBreast-Info.org.
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Polygenic breast cancer risk scores strive to overcome racial bias
Efforts...
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Internal mammary lymph node radiation safe over the long term
Rates of heart and lung complications very low, with no increased non–breast cancer related mortality with radiation procedure.
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Internal mammary lymph node radiation safe over the long term
But for patients with higher baseline cardiopulmonary risk factors, lower mean heart doses should be used.
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How many years of aromatase inhibitor therapy in breast cancer?
Postmenopausal women with hormone receptor–positive breast cancer may need only 2 years of additional endocrine therapy instead of 5, shows a new...
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One in three cancer articles on social media has wrong info
Physician says misleading information online may be harmful to patients.
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FDA approves neoadjuvant pembro for triple-negative breast cancer
It is the first immunotherapy regimen to be approved for high-risk early-stage triple negative breast cancer.
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The robot comes to mastectomy, but cancer outcomes data not attached
Clinical trials are underway in the United States to explore the use of robotic surgical devices for nipple-sparing mastectomy, but investigators...
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Cancer mortality continues to drop in females as breast cancer reversal looms
Gains were strongest for melanoma and lung cancer, while ground was lost to uterine cancer.
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Therapeutic Approaches in Advanced Breast Cancer
Dr Susan Domchek, from the University of Pennsylvania, discusses the importance of identifying molecular characteristics of metastatic breast...