By: Jennifer Nessel, Assistant Editorma From: pharmacytimes.com A recent study by the NYU School of Medicine and NYU Langone’s Perlmutter Cancer Center found that men at high risk of developing breast cancer may benefit from mammography, or a breast X-ray, screening for the disease. According to the study authors, the trial is the largest review in the United States of …
Why the FDA Wants to Include Men in Breast Cancer Clinical Trials
From: healthline.com The Food and Drug Administration is recommending that men be included in breast cancer treatment clinical trials. Men account for only 1 percent of breast cancer cases overall. Experts say it’s important to examine whether men respond differently to breast cancer treatment than women. The NATALEE clinical trial for breast cancer treatment is currently recruiting men. Men have …
Biology of hormone-sensitive breast cancer in men mapped
Source: Netherlands Cancer Institute From: PR Newswire Breast cancer in men is rare, and men with breast cancer receive the same anti-hormonal therapy as women. Often with effect, but there was no scientific basis for it before now. Cancer researchers led by Wilbert Zwart from the Netherlands Cancer Institute and Oncode Institute are now the first to clarify how hormones …