Breast Cancer
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Life and death decisions: What keeps oncologists up at night
“It’s part of the discomfort you live with as a patient and oncologist, and when I leave the clinic, that’s one thing that follows me home.”
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Hormone therapy didn’t increase recurrence or mortality in women treated for breast cancer
Recurrence was increased with vaginal hormone therapy among those taking aromatase inhibitors.
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Amazon involved with new cancer vaccine clinical trial
The trial is aimed at finding “personalized vaccines” to treat breast cancer and melanoma, a form of skin cancer.
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Select patients with breast cancer may skip RT after lumpectomy
There is “clearly a population of early-stage breast cancer [patients] who after lumpectomy do not benefit from radiation.”
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Study confirms BRCA1 and BRCA2 linked to seven cancers
Some associations are stronger than others with biliary tract, esophageal, and gastric cancers rising to the top.
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Sociogenomics may explain race disparities in breast cancer mortality
Research aimed at understanding and mitigating the effects of persistent marginalization urgently needed.
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Quality of life benefit exaggerated in some cancer studies
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Cancer may increase risk of type 2 diabetes
Study demonstrates elevated risk of developing diabetes for people with lung, pancreatic, breast, brain, urinary tract, or uterine cancers
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Key Abstracts in Metastatic Breast Cancer From the 2022 American Society of Clinical Oncology Annual Meeting
Key abstracts in metastatic breast cancer from ASCO 2022 include "showstopper" results from DESTINY-Breast04 and benefit from sacituzumab...
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Highlights in Early Breast Cancer From the 2022 American Society of Clinical Oncology Annual Meeting
Highlights in early breast cancer from ASCO 2022 include results from NeoSTAR in triple-negative disease and 8-year follow-up of the ASTRRA study...