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 | Sentinel Lymph Node Biopsy: What Breast Cancer Patients Need to Know
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| | Whether or not the cancer has spread to the sentinel lymph node indicates whether the cancer has started to spread beyond the breast. A new technique called sentinel lymph node biopsy identifies this... [more]
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| Full Field Digital Mammography: A New Breast Cancer Screening Tool
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| | A new type of mammography equipment called full-field digital mammography has generated a good deal of press during its first year of availability in the United States. Mammography remains the best m... [more]
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| Ductal Lavage: A New Look Inside the Breast
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| | Women at high risk for developing breast cancer now have another tool
to use to help assess their personal risk of developing this disease. Ductal
lavage is a minimally invasive procedure that can b... [more]
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| Current Status of Positron Imaging for Breast Cancer
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| | Positron emission tomography is a valuable imaging tool for staging breast cancer, for monitoring therapy and in the investigation of tumor relapse. Strengths and weaknesses of PET imaging in breast ... [more]
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| Estimating Breast Cancer Risk
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| | Breast cancer is the most frequently diagnosed non-skin cancer in American women. An estimated 213,000 American women will be diagnosed with breast cancer in 2006. The risk of breast cancer increases ... [more]
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| Herceptin in Early stage Breast Cancer
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| | Herceptin® Combined With Chemotherapy Improves Disease-Free Survival for Patients With Early-Stage Breast Cancer
Results from two large randomized clinical trials for patients with HER-2 positi... [more]
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| Inflammatory Breast Cancer: Questions and Answers
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| | Inflammatory breast cancer is a rare but very aggressive type of breast cancer in which the cancer cells block the lymph vessels in the skin of the breast. This type of breast cancer is called “inflam... [more]
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| Breast Cancer and Lymphedema: Risk Greatly Increased With Added Boost of Radiation to Axillary Nodes
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| | PHILADELPHIA -The significant risk of developing lymphedema may outweigh the benefit of receiving an extra boost of radiation to lymph nodes possibly involved in early-stage breast cancer. ... [more]
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| Breast Cancer Books
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| | Breast Cancer Book Section of the CancerNews.com service. Books related to breast cancer treatment, survival and support.... [more]
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| Breast MRI: Detects Cancers in the Opposite Breast of Women Newly Diagnosed with Breast Cancer
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| | Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) scans of women who were diagnosed with cancer in one breast detected over 90 percent of cancers in the other breast that were missed by mammography and clinical... [more]
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| Decrease in Breast Cancer Rates Related to Reduction in Use of Hormone Replacement Therapy
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| | The sharp decline in the rate of new breast cancer cases in 2003 may be related to a national decline in the use of hormone replacement therapy (HRT), according to a new report in the April 19, 2007, ... [more]
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| Aggressive Breast Cancer: Research finds link between body mass index and prognosis
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| | Body Mass Index (BMI), the measure of a person's fat based on their height and weight, may be an effective prognostic tool for specific types of breast cancer, according to research from ... [more]
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| Breast Cancer: Cardiac Effects Associated with Chemotherapy Treatment Lower With Dose-Dense Delivery
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| | NEW YORK - A new pilot study by investigators at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC) found that breast cancer patients can be treated safely with a "dose-dense" regimen of standard chemothe... [more]
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| Mammography May Be Beneficial To All Women, Regardless of Age
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| | According to researchers at The University of Texas M D Anderson Cancer Center, mammography, the gold-standard for breast cancer screening and early detection, has shown to significantly reduce the ... [more]
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| Minorities less likely to know about breast cancer treatment options, U-M researchers find
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| | ANN ARBOR, Mich — Nearly half of women treated for breast cancer did not know that their odds of being alive after five years are roughly the same whether they undergo mastectomy or breast conserving ... [more]
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| Breast Cancer: Risk Assessment Plays Key Role in Long-Term Treatment
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| | Breast cancer patients and their physicians may make more informed, long-term treatment decisions using risk assessment strategies to help determine probability of recurrence, a research team led by ... [more]
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| Confusing risk information may lead breast cancer patients to make poor treatment choices
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| | ANN ARBOR, Mich - A new study from researchers at the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center found that a tool commonly used by doctors to estimate the risk of a woman's breast cancer ... [more]
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| Alternating Mammography and MRI May Be Best for High-Risk Women
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| | MRI is known to be more sensitive in detecting breast cancers than mammography, with a 71 - 100 percent accuracy compared to a 16 - 40 percent accuracy for mammography. As a result, annual breast canc... [more]
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| Early Stage, HER2 Positive Breast Cancer Patients at Increased Risk of Recurrence
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| | Early-stage breast cancer patients with HER2 positive tumors one centimeter or smaller are at significant risk of recurrence of their disease, compared to those with early-stage disease who do not exp... [more]
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| Researchers Identify Genetic Variations That May Increase Risk of Breast Cancer
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| | Researchers have identified new genetic variations in two regions of DNA -- located on chromosomes 1 and 14 -- that may be associated with the risk of sporadic breast cancer. This study also confirms ... [more]
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| Cosmetic Breast Implants Do Not Interfere With Detecting Breast Cancer
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| | While being familiar with your breasts is good advice for women with natural breasts and for women with implants, the way that breast cancer screening exams are done for each are different. ... [more]
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| Advanced Breast Cancer Clinical Trial News
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| | ANN ARBOR, Mich. — A clinical trial for women with an aggressive form of metastatic breast cancer will open soon at the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center in Ann Arbor and is now open ... [more]
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| Early Stage HER2 Positive Breast Cancer Patients at Increased Risk of Recurrence
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| | Early-stage breast cancer patients with HER2 positive tumors one centimeter or smaller are at significant risk of recurrence of their disease, compared to those with early-stage disease who do not ... [more]
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| Study Finds Second Breast Cancer Risk Increased by obesity, alcohol consumption and smoking
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| | SEATTLE — Sept. 8, 2009 — It is well known that survivors of breast cancer have a much higher risk of developing a second breast cancer than women in the general population have of developing a first ... [more]
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| Preventing Breast Cancer
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| | Most breast cancer prevention research is based on evidence linking the development of this disease, in many cases, with exposure to the hormone estrogen. The focus of several breast cancer prevention... [more]
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| Mammograms
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| | Mammograms can be used to check for breast cancer in women who have no signs or symptoms of the disease.... [more]
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| BRCA1 and BRCA2: Cancer Risk and Genetic Testing
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| | A woman's risk of developing breast and/or ovarian cancer is greatly increased if she inherits a deleterious (harmful) BRCA1 or BRCA2 mutation. Men with these mutations also have an increased risk of ... [more]
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| Breast Cancer Screening: Q&A
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| | The goal of screening for breast cancer is to decrease the chances that a woman will die due to breast cancer. Screening can find cancers early, when they are most treatable. Approaches used over the ... [more]
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| Breast Cancer Risk and Pregnancy
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| | Every woman’s hormone levels change throughout her life for a variety of reasons, and hormone changes can lead to changes in the breasts. Hormone changes that occur during pregnancy may influence a wo... [more]
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| Most Early Stage Breast Cancer Patients May Not Need Radiation After Mastectomy
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| | Breast cancer patients with early stage disease that has spread to only one lymph node may not benefit from radiation after mastectomy, because of the low present-day risk of recurrence following mode... [more]
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| BREAST CANCER PATIENTS WITH BRCA GENE MUTATIONS ARE MORE LIKELY TO GET CANCER IN OPPOSITE BREAST
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| | SEATTLE – Women with breast cancer before age 55 who carry an inherited mutation in the breast cancer susceptibility genes BRCA1 or BRCA2 are four times more likely to develop cancer in the breast ... [more]
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| Breast cancer resistance to Herceptin: New Treatment Stategy
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| | Breast cancer tumors take numerous paths to resist the targeted drug Herceptin, but a single roadblock at a crucial crossroads may restore a tumor's vulnerability to treatment, scientists at ... [more]
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| Breast Cancer Chemotherapy: New approach to treatment may help some women avoid mastectomy
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| | Whether chemotherapy is given before or after breast-conserving therapy (BCT) does not have an impact on long-term local-regional outcomes, suggesting treatment success is due more to biologic factors... [more]
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| Breast Cancer Survival Increased Significantly with Herceptin / Chemotherapy Combo
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Treating women with early stage breast cancer with a combination of chemotherapy and the molecularly targeted drug Herceptin significantly increases survival in patients with a specific gene... [more]
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| Breast MRI Helps Predict Chemotherapy's Effectiveness
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| | Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) provides an indication of a breast tumor's response to pre-surgical chemotherapy significantly earlier than possible through clinical examination, according to a new ... [more]
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| Breast Cancer Risks: Childhood Cancer Radiation Treatment Increases Risk for Breast Cancer in adults
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| | New data reveals that women treated with radiation to the chest for childhood cancer have a high risk of developing breast cancer similar to that of women with BRCA1/2 mutations. The study, led by Mem... [more]
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| Breast Cancer Surgery - Sentinel Lymph Node Biopsy for Breast Cancer: What You Need to Know
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| | Invasive breast cancer can spread through the lymph ducts and blood vessels to other areas of the body. The sentinel lymph node is the first lymph node(s) that the lymph ducts drain into. Whether or... [more]
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| New Oncogene Identified For Breast Cancer: Findings Have the Potential for New Therapies in Cancer
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| | There are relatively few oncogenes that are critical to breast cancer growth, and only one other breast cancer oncogene has been identified in the last six years. Breast cancers are classified clinica... [more]
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| Breast Cancer News: Patients with dense breasts on mammograms do not have increased risk of death
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| | Although high mammographic breast density is a well-established risk factor for developing breast cancer, it was unclear prior to this study whether breast density is also associated with the risk of ... [more]
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| Breast Cancer Treatment: New Research Suggests Sometimes Less is More
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| | SEATTLE – Oncologists and researchers are discovering that when it comes to treating breast cancer, “doing less does more” for patients. This approach kills the cancer while improving cure rates and d... [more]
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| DELAYING CHILDBIRTH MAY REDUCE THE RISK OF AN AGGRESSIVE FORM OF BREAST CANCER IN YOUNGER WOMEN
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| | SEATTLE – Younger women who wait at least 15 years after their first menstrual period to give birth to their first child may reduce their risk of an aggressive form of breast cancer by up to 60 percen... [more]
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