Breast Cancer
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Breast-conserving therapy improved survival over mastectomy
Major Finding: Women who underwent lumpectomy for stage I or II breast cancer were 28% less likely to die from any cause and up to 16% less likely...
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Some HER2-negative cancers may benefit from anti-HER2 therapy
Major Finding: Overall, 25 (about 1.7%) of 1,499 breast cancers had activating HER2 mutations. Most of these cancers were HER2 negative by...
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Cost-benefit analysis of decision support methods for patients with breast cancer in a rural community
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New tool predicts late recurrence in breast cancer
Major Finding: Among patients who remained disease free at 5 years, the 61% with a low baseline BCI score had a 3.5% rate of distant recurrence...
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Minimally invasive breast biopsy lags in Texas
Major Finding: During 2008, 79% of Texas women aged 66 years or older undergoing breast biopsy had a minimally-invasive procedure.Data Source: A...
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HER2 status best predicts benefit of anti-HER2 therapy
Major Finding: Median progression-free survival was better with pertuzumab than placebo in both the mutant PIK3CA group (12.5 vs. 8.6 months) and...
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Neoadjuvant chemo renders SLN biopsy less reliable
Major Finding: The false-negative rates of SLN biopsy were 14% for patients who had a chemotherapy-induced downstaging from cN1 to cN0 disease and...
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Ki67 in pretreatment breast biopsy predicts prognosis
Major Finding: When patients were split into three equal groups according to Ki67 cutpoints of low (less than or equal to 15%), intermediate (15.1...
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Metabolic syndrome skews Oncotype DX reliability
Major Finding: Of 322 patients with low-risk early-stage breast cancer, 89 (27%) met World Health Organization criteria for metabolic syndrome. So...
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Cancer deaths declined 20% since 1991
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Score helps predict late distant metastases in ER-positive breast cancer
Major Finding: Patients with a low vs. high EndoPredict clinical score at 5 years of follow-up were five times as likely to be free of distant...