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Increased weight increases risk, so losing weight decreases risk. Wrong! A new study “challenges the simple suggestion that patients who are overweight or obese should just lose weight to reduce their cancer risk,” say experts. The findings were published […]
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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Breast cancer patients with low extracellular domains of human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2) are less likely to benefit from trastuzumab (Herceptin, Genentech), according to U.S. and Greek researchers. As Dr. David L. […]
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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Cooling the scalp before, during, and shortly after chemotherapy infusion significantly reduces hair loss in breast cancer patients, according to new findings presented at the American Society of Clinical Oncology’s annual meeting in Chicago. […]
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Risk assessment for hereditary cancer is the key to identifying patients and families who may be at increased risk of developing certain types of gynecologic cancer, according to a new committee opinion from the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology […]
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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Breast cancer patients on adjuvant trastuzumab need cardiac monitoring, but most don’t get it, new research suggests. “We suspected that the rates of cardiac monitoring were going to be low, but we were surprised […]
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(Reuters Health) – Weight lifting may be helpful for breast cancer survivors, a new study suggests. Breast cancer survivors who did progressive weight lifting were less likely to have physical deterioration than those who didn’t, the authors report. […]
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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Breastfeeding may be associated with better prognosis and survival among breast cancer patients with certain intrinsic tumor subtypes, new research suggests. “The findings from our study could potentially be another factor for the clinician […]
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TORONTO — For women with a personal history of breast cancer, surveillance is better with mammography than with MRI because more cancers are detected with mammography in these patients, new research suggests. “We know that screening MRI is appropriate […]
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(Reuters Health) – Women with a gene mutation that puts them at a high risk of breast and ovarian cancers have better survival odds if their ovaries and fallopian tubes are removed soon after a breast cancer diagnosis, suggests a […]
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PHILADELPHIA — The number of breast cancer cases in American women is expected to jump 50% by 2030, according to a study by researchers from the National Cancer Institute (NCI). The increase is driven mostly by a marked increase […]
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