Breast Cancer
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Data underscore the importance of lifestyle interventions in breast cancer patients
SAN ANTONIO – Data support lifestyle interventions in women with breast cancer; jury is still out on the effects of interventions on disease...
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Extended AI therapy reduces breast cancer recurrence risk, ups fracture risk
SAN ANTONIO – A meta-analysis shows reduced breast cancer recurrence with extended AI therapy, but underscores need...
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Oxybutynin rapidly quells hot flashes
SAN ANTONIO - Oxybutynin reduced hot flash scores by at least two-thirds, improved measures of quality of life, and was safe and well tolerated in...
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Partial- and whole-breast irradiation very close in efficacy
SAN ANTONIO – A phase 3 trial among women who had undergone lumpectomy could not refute the hypothesis that PBI was inferior to WBI, but the...
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CTC counts signal treatment choice in ER-positive/HER2-negative metastatic breast cancer
SAN ANTONIO – Circulating tumor cell counts rival clinician choice for determining whether to prescribe hormonal therapy or chemotherapy,...
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AMAROS: Radiation has edge for axillary treatment
SAN ANTONIO – In patients with a positive sentinel node, axillary radiation has similar efficacy to axillary lymph node dissection and less...