Breast Cancer
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Most women with breast cancer elude serious COVID-19 vaccine side effects
The frequency of lymph node swelling was similar to the general population.
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Exciting advances in HR-positive breast cancer: Top five picks from SABCS
Treatments meet unmet need and address unanswered questions.
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Cancer researcher banned from federal funding for faking data in nearly 400 images in 16 grant applications
The former basic medical sciences professor will be banned from receiving federal grants for a decade.
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Potential cause of worse outcomes among Black breast cancer patients found
Tumor microenvironment of metastasis doorways predicted worse outcomes in Black women with residual ER+/HER2– cancer after neoadjuvant...
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Less than a third of Americans aware of cancer risk from alcohol
Survey also shows low awareness that cancer risk varies by type of drink.
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Whole breast radiation for breast cancer shown to be safe and effective
Whole breast radiation can cut treatment time from 6 weeks down to 3 weeks.
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Personalized breast screening a step closer to reality
“Several breast cancer risk prediction models have been created, but we believe this is one of the first models designed to guide breast screening...
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Novel vaccine approach halts disease after 23 years of breast cancer
“The biggest impact so far for me has been that, for the first time in more than a decade, I am not on any medication. That’s really amazing.”
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Third COVID booster benefits cancer patients
For the first time, researchers have quantified the benefits of boosters for COVID-19 in cancer patients.
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Findings may be practice changing for early breast cancer patients
A radiation boost to the tumor bed during whole breast irradiation was as safe and effective as delivering the boost sequentially.