Breast Cancer
Conference Coverage
Fasting during breast cancer chemo improves quality of life
Short-term fasting around the time of chemotherapy is a promising supportive therapy during breast cancer chemotherapy that may enhance quality of...
Conference Coverage
Adjuvant abemaciclib-ET combo shows long-term benefit in high-risk early breast cancer
Invasive disease–free and distant recurrence–free survival were better with the CDK4/6 inhibitor plus endocrine therapy than endocrine therapy...
Opinion
Male patients with breast cancer: Special considerations and gender-specific concerns
Even the materials that we have are gender specific. I think those things all together can certainly contribute to a man feeling like a fish out...
News
Breast reconstruction post mastectomy: What matters most to women?
“This study provides information on how women value different aspects of their care when making decisions for breast reconstruction.”
News
Does surgery improve survival in metastatic breast cancer?
“The analysis revealed no overall survival benefit for patients who underwent surgical excision of their primary breast tumor.”
Conference Coverage
‘Reassuring’ follow-up validates radiation strategy for early breast cancer
At 10 years, partial-breast/reduced-dose therapy are still noninferior to whole-breast approach.
Conference Coverage
Adopting high-dose radiation vs. conventional after mastectomy could be ‘game changer’
The use of the higher-dose approach, known as hypofractionation, “resulted in fewer treatment breaks and less financial toxicity.”
Conference Coverage
SABR could defer systemic therapy in oligoprogressive breast cancer
“We found surprisingly that SABR delayed a change in therapy by 10 months, which is great for patients.”
News
It’s safe to skip SLNB for small, ultrasound-negative breast cancer
Trial results support “the argument that sentinel node positivity is not, in and of itself, a critical parameter that determines therapeutic plans...
News
Older women who get mammograms risk overdiagnosis
The proportion of older women who continue to receive screening mammograms and may experience breast cancer overdiagnosis is “considerable” and “...