Breast Cancer
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'Chemobrain' starts before chemotherapy in breast cancer study
Major Finding: Women scheduled to undergo chemotherapy after surgery for breast cancer were significantly more likely to show low brain activation...
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Ten-year data back shorter radiotherapy for breast cancer
Major Finding: The relapse rate at 10 years was 4.3% after the shorter 40 Gy regimen and 5.5% after the longer 50 Gy regimen, a nonsignificant...
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Bevacizumab misses - again - for breast cancer
Major Finding: Median 32-month rate of invasive disease-free survival was 85.5% with adjuvant chemotherapy plus a year of bevacizumab and 84.1%...
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Studies put kibosh on statins for breast cancer prevention
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San Antonio Roundtable, Part 4: Everolimus in Clinical Practice, a New CDK Inhibitor
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Late Leukemia Risk Rises after Breast Cancer Therapy
Major Finding: The 10-year incidence of leukemia after adjuvant chemotherapy for breast cancer appears to hover around 0.5%, twice as high as...
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Genetic Vulnerabilities Identified in Residual TNBC After Neoadjuvant Chemo
Major Finding: About 90% of patients had tumors harboring genetic alterations in clinical pathways that could be potentially targeted, such as the...
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PET/CT Pinpoints Physiological Evidence of Chemo Brain
Major Finding: Statistically significant declines in glucose metabolism were observed post chemotherapy in the superior medial frontal gyrus as a...
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Mammograms Dip in Wake of USPSTF Recommendations
Major Finding: Breast mammography among women on Medicare declined 4.3% in 2010, the first full year after the USPSTF recommendations came out....
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Surviving breast cancer shouldn't mean relinquishing intimacy
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Psoriasis Patients Have Low Rates of Common Cancers
Major Finding: There were 232 cancer cases in 3,289 psoriasis patients, for a cumulative incidence rate of 588/100,000 population with psoriasis,...