 | 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 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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| 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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| 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 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 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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