Breast Cancer
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Patients' Worry, Not Risk, Drives Double Mastectomies
Major Finding: Eighty percent of 107 women who underwent contralateral prophylactic mastectomy had no clinical indication for the procedure.
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Screening Mammograms Overdiagnosed More Than 1 Million Women
Major Finding: Compared with the premammography era, routine screening now picks up 122 additional cases of early cancer per 100,000 women – just...
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Breast Cancer Mortality Higher in Blacks Than Whites
Major Finding: Black women are 41% more likely to die from a breast cancer than are white women – despite having a significantly lower incidence...
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ASCO Update Keeps Breast Cancer Survivor Guidelines Intact
Major Finding: Updated recommendations from the American Society of Clinical Oncology’s guidelines on follow-up care for breast cancer survivors...
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Older Women Lived Longer With Radiotherapy After Lumpectomy
Major Finding: The overall survival rate was 88.6% at 5 years with radiation and lumpectomy vs.
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Screening Cuts Breast Cancer Deaths by 20%
Major Finding: For every 10,000 U.K.
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The Cancer Screening Wars
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Another Study Finds No Glargine, Breast Cancer Link
Major Finding: The rate of breast cancer among women who received insulin glargine was similar to that of women who had not received glargine.Data...
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EMILIA Confirms T-DM1 Overall Survival Advantage
Major Finding: Median overall survival was 30.9 months for T-DM1 and 25.1 months for capecitabine plus lapatinib (hazard ratio = 0.68, P = .0006)....
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One Year of Trastuzumab Remains the Standard in Early Breast Cancer
Major Findings: The hazard ratios for disease-free and overall survival comparing 1 year and 2 years of adjuvant trastuzumab in the HERA trial...