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Survivorship care models work, some better than others
ORLANDO – Survivorship care models can reduce health care use and costs without compromising outcomes, but quality of care differs across models...
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Breast cancer info on centers’ sites leaves room for improvement
ORLANDO – The websites of leading cancer centers often fail to provide critical information about breast cancer treatment.
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VIDEO: Sexuality, fertility are focus of cancer education website
MIAMI BEACH – Cancer patients may be reticent to discuss issues of sexuality and fertility related to their disease. At the same time, their...
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VIDEO: Residual cancer burden may be better outcome measure than pCR
MIAMI BEACH – The Food and Drug Administration has accepted pathological complete response rate (pCR) as a surrogate endpoint for disease-free and...
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VIDEO: Genomics, other advances further highlight how breast cancer differs in men
MIAMI BEACH – Men’s version of breast cancer differs so significantly from women’s that it is unreasonable to extrapolate findings from one to the...
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VIDEO: It’s too early to give up on immunotherapy for breast cancer
MIAMI BEACH – Breast cancer is less immunogenic that melanoma, bladder cancer, lung cancer, and other malignancies that have responded well to...
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VIDEO: Multiple PARP inhibitors show promise in breast cancer treatment
MIAMI BEACH – Driven by efficacy demonstrated in ovarian cancer, a number of PARP inhibitors are in development and hold promise for treatment of...
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VIDEO: What’s new with HER2-neu inhibition
MIAMI BEACH – For women with HER2-positive disease, neoadjuvant therapy with trastuzumab (Herceptin) was and is a game changer, improving...
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VIDEO: Vaccines, combination therapy hold most promise for optimizing immunotherapy in breast cancer
MIAMI BEACH – Although typically not as immunogenic as melanoma or lung cancer, breast cancer can respond to immunotherapy.
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VIDEO: Registry studies reflect real patients in the real world
MIAMI BEACH – Studies using data from prospective registries provide valuable insights for investigators into diseases of real patients in real-...