By: Amerigo Allegretto From: auntminnie.com Recurrence-free breast cancer survival is less likely in women with high breast density compared to women with low density, according to research published April 18 in The Breast. A team led by Kristina Lång, MD, PhD, from Lund University in Sweden found that these results were especially evident for women with screening-detected cancers. However, they found …
Stages of breast cancer: How they’ve changed over time
By: Oluchi Oke, M.D. From: mdanderson.org In the past, only the size of a tumor and the status of nearby lymph nodes were used to determine the stage of someone’s breast cancer. It was a fairly simple system based purely on anatomy, and was therefore easy for people to memorize. If a tumor was two centimeters wide or smaller, it …