By: Carrie Hodgin, WFMY News 2 Digital From: wfmynews2.com An innovative breast cancer clinical trial is coming to Wake Forest Baptist Health. It’s available to patients with early-stage, high-risk for recurrence breast cancer. It’s called the I-SPY 2 TRIAL. It will allow for every patient’s data to contribute real-time information so that the next similar patient receives the best treatment …
Intraoperative radiation therapy is promising treatment for early-stage breast cancer
By: Dr. Shayna Showalter From: dailyprogress.com Women with early-stage breast cancer are often treated with breast-conserving surgery followed by whole-breast irradiation (WBI). However, WBI is burdensome, requiring four to six weeks of daily treatments. It also exposes healthy areas of the body — namely, the heart, lungs and skin — to radiation. As a result, studies have shown that women …
Breakthrough study by Kaiser Permanente supports outpatient breast cancer surgery
By: MARTIN ESPINOZA, THE PRESS DEMOCRAT From: sonomanews.com A year ago when her surgeon asked if she wanted to go home a few hours after her right breast was removed, Santa Rosa hairdresser Wendy Woods jumped at the chance. Woods, 64, a stylist at Icon Hair Salon on Fourth Street, felt fine after a mastectomy in November to treat her …
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View PostGiving birth young helps protect women from breast cancer. Could a drug mimic that?
By: Marie McCullough, The Philadelphia Inquirer From: globegazette.com – Having a baby before age 20 markedly cuts a woman’s lifetime chance of developing breast cancer, studies show. – What if young women could take a drug that would mimic that cancer-preventing effect of full-term pregnancy? – Fox Chase Cancer Center researcher Jose Russo, 77, is inspired and driven by that …
What are the stages of breast cancer?
By: Keith Dunlap – Graham Media Group From: ksat.com Analyzing numbers, specifics of each breast cancer stage There are several stages of breast cancer, depending on the severity of a diagnosis, but what does each one mean for those affected? Here’s an overview of numbers and specifics for each stage of breast cancer, according to cancer.net. Stage O This describes …
Mayo Breast Cancer Vaccine Could Be Available In Less Than A Decade
By: Robin Seaton Jefferson From: forbes.com Researchers at Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Florida say a vaccine they have developed could be available within eight years that may not only stop the recurrence of breast and ovarian cancers, but prevent them from developing in the first place. “It is reasonable to say that we could have a vaccine within eight years …
Seattle Genetics Announces Initiation of Phase 3 Clinical Trial of Tucatinib in Combination with Ado-trastuzumab Emtansine (T-DM1, Kadcyla®) for Patients with Advanced or Metastatic HER2-Positive Breast Cancer
From: businesswire.com Seattle Genetics, Inc. (Nasdaq:SGEN) today announced dosing of the first patient in HER2CLIMB-02, a randomized phase 3 clinical trial evaluating investigational agent tucatinib versus placebo, in combination with standard-of-care ado-trastuzumab emtansine (T-DM1, Kadcyla®), for patients with locally advanced or metastatic HER2-positive (HER2+) breast cancer. This trial is intended to support registration in the U.S. Tucatinib is an oral, …
Foreign-born women lagging behind US peers in breast cancer screening rates
By: Marty Stempniak From: radiologybusiness.com Breast is the leading cancer killer for Hispanic women in the U.S., and it ranks second among white, black and Asian populations. Incidence of the disease and receipt of crucial mammography screening are often impacted by whether a woman was born in a foreign country, which can snowball into disparities in treatment outcomes. There’s been …
Metastatic Breast Cancer: What You Should Know
By: Rene Wisely From: uofmhealth.org What does it mean to have metastatic, or stage 4, breast cancer? A Rogel Cancer Center oncologist explains the diagnosis and how it’s treated. After hearing a diagnosis of metastatic breast cancer, a rush of questions emerges. But often, it’s not until long after leaving the doctor’s office. Metastatic means the cancer has spread beyond …