Breast Cancer

• Angelina Jolie's Double Mastectomy: Q&A

  

  Posted 7:45 PM 5/14/2013

  May 14, 2013 -- Actress and activist Angelina Jolie's recent decision to have a preventive double mastectomy highlights the difficult choices facing women who find out they have a high risk for breast cancer because of their genes.

  Although relatively rare, mutations in the BRCA1 and (More)
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• Q&A: Breast Cancer in Young Women

  

  Posted 8:22 PM 2/28/2013

  Feb. 28, 2013 -- Young women found the news surprising and more than a little scary: Cases of advanced breast cancer have been rising in women 25 to 39 over the past three decades, researchers reported this week.

  From 1976 to 2009, the number of cases of advanced breast (More)
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• Existing Breast Cancer Drugs May Help More Women

  

  Posted 9:40 PM 12/7/2012

  Dec. 7, 2012 (San Antonio) -- Current screening tests may miss as many as 1 in 50 women with breast cancer who would benefit from treatment with highly effective breast cancer drugs.

  At issue is HER2-positive breast cancer, an aggressive form of the disease that was difficult to treat until the FDA (More)
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• Fruits, Veggies Tied to Lower Breast Cancer Risk

  

  Posted 7:07 PM 12/6/2012

  Dec. 6, 2012 -- Women now have one more reason to eat their fruits and veggies.

  A new study suggests that women with higher levels of carotenoids (nutrients found in fruits and vegetables) have a lower risk of breast cancer -- especially cancers that are harder to treat and have a poorer prognosis.

  When researchers from Harvard Medical School pooled the results of (More)
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• Longer Tamoxifen Use Helps Breast Cancer Survival

  

  Posted 7:30 PM 12/5/2012

  Dec. 5, 2012 -- Doubling the time that breast cancer patients take tamoxifen cuts the risk that the cancer will come back and further lowers the risk of dying of the disease, a new study shows.

  The study is expected to change the way doctors prescribe tamoxifen, a drug that (More)
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• Breast Cancer: Are Yearly Mammograms Worthwhile?

  

  Posted 8:01 PM 11/21/2012

  Nov. 21, 2012 -- Women over age 40 are often urged to get yearly mammograms with the promise that early detection is their best hope for beating breast cancer.

  But a new study published in The New England Journal of Medicine suggests that mammograms may not save as many lives as doctors once thought.

  The study also finds that the tests may be responsible for (More)
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• Adding 3-D Mammograms May Improve Accuracy

  

  Posted 7:33 PM 11/20/2012

  Nov. 20, 2012 -- Although mammograms remain the gold standard for breast cancer screening, they are not the perfect test.

  They don't find up to 30% of cancers, and they often find something that may be suspicious for cancer but really isn't after additional testing. These are called false-positive (More)
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• African-American Women: Breast Cancer More Deadly?

  

  Posted 5:16 PM 10/28/2012

  Oct. 28, 2012 -- African-American women may be more likely to die of breast cancer than women of other races, especially in the first few years after the diagnosis, according to new research.

  As to why, there are no clear answers yet, but the emphasis on vigilant care is clear for African-American women.

  "Black women were almost 50% more likely to die compared to white (More)
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• After Breast Cancer Diagnosis, Are Other Tests Overdone?

  

  Posted 2:46 PM 9/12/2012

  Sept. 12, 2012 (San Francisco) -- Tests often performed to look for cancer spread in women with early-stage breast cancer are generally unnecessary, new research suggests.

  Analysis of pooled data from eight published studies involving about 1,700 women with breast cancer shows that bone scans, (More)
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• Obesity May Affect Breast Cancer Recovery

  

  Posted 8:25 PM 8/27/2012

  Aug. 27, 2012 -- Extra pounds may raise the risk for recurrence among women with the most common kind of breast cancer, a new study shows.

  Prior studies have found that being overweight or obese increases the risk of getting a number of cancers, including breast cancer. And smaller studies have noted that obese breast cancer patients tended to fare worse than those who are normal weight.

  The new study takes a fresh look at data collected on more than (More)
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