Breast Cancer
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Soy didn’t up all-cause mortality in breast cancer survivors
The ongoing study tracks with previous work showing no risk from dietary soy.
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Daily News Special: SABCS
The latest clinical medicine news from the 2018 annual San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium.
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Neoadjuvant degarelix more effective than triptorelin for ovarian suppression
Degarelix, a gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) antagonist approved for prostate cancer, was more effective than the GnRH agonist triptorelin...
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Managing menopausal vasomotor and genitourinary symptoms after breast cancer
Two cases on selecting safe and useful treatments for survivors of breast cancer experiencing distressing quality-of-life...
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Actionable mutations more likely in women with both breast and uterine cancer
At least one actionable mutation was seen in 14% of women with breast and uterine cancer, compared with 9.3% of women with breast cancer only, in...
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Poor-prognosis cancers linked to highest suicide risk in first year
Pancreatic and lung cancer patients had high rates of suicide in comparison to the general population, while breast and prostate cancer patients...
Conference Coverage
Young women opt for mastectomy even when neoadjuvant chemo works well
SAN ANTONIO – Although neoadjuvant chemotherapy doubled the proportion of women eligible for breast-conserving surgery, about 40% chose mastectomy...
Conference Coverage
Older breast cancer patients given adjuvant chemo live longer
SAN ANTONIO – Overall survival is better in breast cancer patients aged 65 years and older who receive adjuvant chemotherapy, although patients...
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Survivors of childhood Hodgkin lymphoma face 14-fold risk of second cancers
The findings highlight the need to screen high-risk subgroups of cancer survivors.
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QOL is poorer for young women after mastectomy than BCS
SAN ANTONIO – A cohort study of 560 breast cancer survivors aged 40 or younger at diagnosis finds that breast satisfaction and several domains of...