Breast Cancer
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Cancer pain declines with cannabis use
Lower use of other meds was also seen in patients who used cannabis.
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Antibody Drug Conjugates: a growing field of targeted therapy for breast cancer
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Guidelines for assessing cancer risk may need updating
Whole-exome sequencing reveals cancer risk mutations in patients that would not have qualified for testing based on current guidelines.
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Circulating DNA has promise for cancer detection, but faces challenges
Unnecessary procedures and health care challenges could leave Whites as the primary beneficiaries.
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Outpatient costs top drug costs in some insured, working women with breast cancer
‘Women think they are insured until they get a diagnosis,’ says the author of a new paper.
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Survival improved for some patients with metastatic cancers
Among patients with metastatic gastrointestinal stromal tumors, neuroendocrine tumors, melanoma, and several cancers, 5-year survival increased by...
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De-escalation still beneficial after 10 years for some HER2+ breast cancers
“This is the first study to report the long-term outcomes of patients with small, node-negative, HER2-positive breast cancers prospectively...
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Breast conservation safe even with multiple-site tumors
“This is an important study confirming that breast conservation is feasible and safe for women with multiple ipsilateral breast cancers, with...
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Antibody-Drug Conjugates: Targeted Treatments Providing Hope for Patients With Breast Cancer
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Surgery for early breast cancer can worsen frailty in older women
About 1 in 5 experienced clinically significant deterioration in frailty status after treatment for breast cancer.