By: Vittoria D’Alessio, Horizon: The EU Research & Innovation Magazine From: medicalxpress.com Researchers are discovering new genes linked to breast cancer and refining evaluation of risk to help spare women from life-changing surgery. They call it the Angelina Jolie effect: the popular belief that only a preventative double mastectomy can safeguard a woman from developing a tumor if she carries …
Ultrasound detects more cancers in high-risk women with dense breasts
By: Amerigo Allegretto From: auntminnie.com Supplemental breast ultrasound may have utility in imaging women with dense breasts and high risk of advanced or invasive breast cancer, a study published August 6 in Radiology found. Researchers led by Brian Sprague, PhD, from the University of Vermont in Burlington found that women at elevated risk of invasive or advanced breast cancer according …
Chemotherapy linked to physical decline in older women with high-risk breast cancer
Source: University of California – Los Angeles Health Sciences From: news-medical.net A UCLA-led study suggests women who are 65 years old or older with high-risk breast cancer and are treated with chemotherapy are more likely to develop a substantial decline in physical function. The study, published in a special issue of the Journal of Cancer Survivorship, found over 30% of older …
Aspirin Provides No Benefit for Breast Cancer Recurrence, Survival
By: Lori Solomon From: healthday.com Among participants with high-risk nonmetastatic breast cancer, daily aspirin use did not improve the risk for breast cancer recurrence or survival in early follow-up, according to a study published online April 29 in the Journal of the American Medical Association. Wendy Y. Chen, M.D., from the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston, and colleagues evaluated whether aspirin …
Mammography Study: AI Software Predicts One-Third of Breast Cancer Cases Up to Two Years Prior to Diagnosis
By: Jeff Hall From: diagnosticimaging.com Emerging research suggests that adjunctive use of artificial intelligence (AI) in mammography screening accurately identifies high malignancy risk up to two years prior to diagnosis in over a third of women with screen-detected or interval cancers. For the retrospective study, recently published in Radiology, researchers evaluated the use of the adjunctive AI software Transpara version …
What Does “High Risk” for Breast Cancer Mean?
From: healthline.com Breast cancer happens when cells in the breast begin to grow and divide out of control. Aside from some types of skin cancers, it’s the most common cancer affecting women in the United States. According to the American Cancer Society (ACS)Trusted Source, a woman’s average lifetime risk of developing breast cancer is about 13 percent. This translates to …
What Does “High Risk” for Breast Cancer Mean?
From: healthline.com Breast cancer happens when cells in the breast begin to grow and divide out of control. Aside from some types of skin cancers, it’s the most common cancer affecting women in the United States. According to the American Cancer Society (ACS)Trusted Source, a woman’s average lifetime risk of developing breast cancer is about 13 percent. This translates to …
FDA Expands Abemaciclib Indication in HR+, Node+, High-Risk Breast Cancer
By: Kristi Rosa From: onclive.com he FDA approved an expanded indication for abemaciclib (Verzenio) in combination with endocrine therapy for the adjuvant treatment of adult patients with hormone receptor–positive, HER2-negative, node-positive, early breast cancer that is at a high risk of recurrence. Now, those determined to be high risk who are eligible to receive the agent can be identified based …
Estrogen-blocking drugs reduce mortality rates in high-risk women
From: medicalnewstoday.com In a recent study, researchers ran a computer model to reassess the lifetime benefits and potential harms of estrogen-blocking drugs for breast cancer prevention in women with high risk. Estrogen-blocking medication coupled with yearly screening lowers the risk of invasive breast cancer and death from breast cancer by 40% and 57% respectively, but may also cause a range …
Study confirms the unique danger of postpartum breast cancers
By: Joe Rojas-Burke From: news.ohsu.edu A postpartum cancer diagnosis can move women who appear to have good prognosis into a high-risk category Breast cancers that emerge within five years of giving birth are more likely to spread and become deadly. Additionally, a new study shows that recent childbirth alone is an independent risk factor for breast cancer progression. The findings …
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