Breast Cancer
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Molecular profiling leads to improved targeted treatment
Major finding: Forty percent of patients were identified as having a molecular target for which an approved treatment could be given.Data source:...
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Lessons from the pink ribbon
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Breast cancer hormone therapy may affect cognitive function
Major finding: The odds of any decline in cognitive function were significantly higher in patients on hormone therapy (OR, 7.7), compared with...
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Many women with cancer not told about impaired fertility risk
Major finding: Less than half of all women of reproductive age with a diagnosis of cancer were told by physicians that treatment might affect...
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Internal mammary chain radiation ups breast cancer survival
Major finding: Ten-year overall survival was 82.3% with internal mammary and medial supraclavicular radiation therapy vs.
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Jumping the gun on contralateral prophylactic mastectomy?
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Most data reassure regarding TNF inhibitors and cancer
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T-DM1 tops physician’s choice in advanced HER2-positive breast cancer
Major finding: Median progression-free survival was 6.2 months with T-DM1 vs. 3.3 months with physician’s choice of treatment (P less than .0001)....
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False-negative rate for sentinel nodes high after neoadjuvant chemotherapy
Major finding: Sentinel lymph node findings had a false-negative rate of 12.6% among women with cN1 breast cancer, after neoadjuvant chemotherapy...
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Pertuzumab approved as first neoadjuvant treatment for breast cancer
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Tumor distance from nipple boosts nomogram results
Major finding: Positive sentinel nodes were seen in 17 of 33 (52%) tumors within 2 cm of the nipple, compared with 17% of 368 tumors more than 2...