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Older Women Who Don’t Get Regular Mammograms Have a Higher Risk of Dying from Breast Cancer
April 10, 2013
A study found that women 75 and older who didn’t get regular mammograms had a higher risk of dying from breast cancer. Read more…0 -
Study Suggests Some Women May be Able to Get Mammograms Every Other Year
April 10, 2013
A new study suggests that women age 50 to 74 have the same risk of being diagnosed with advanced-stage breast cancer whether they have a mammogram every year or every other year. But women age 40 to 49 with very dense breasts were more likely to be diagnosed with advanced-stage disease if they had mammograms every other year instead of every year. Read more…0 -
Abnormal BRCA1 Gene Linked to Worse Outcomes Than Abnormal BRCA2 Gene
April 17, 2013
A study suggests women with an abnormal BRCA1 gene have worse breast cancer survival and recurrence rates than women with an abnormal BRCA2 gene or women who don’t have either abnormal gene. Read more…0 -
False Positive Mammogram Results Can Cause Long-Term Stress
April 19, 2013
A study has found that the negative effects of a getting a false positive mammogram result linger for at least 3 years after women learned they didn’t have breast cancer. Read more…0 -
Study Looks at Relationship Between Drinking and Survival
April 19, 2013
A study suggests that drinking alcohol before or after being diagnosed with breast cancer doesn’t affect survival. Still, there are some issues with the study. Read more…0 -
About 25% of Women Either Don’t Start or Don’t Finish Hormonal Therapy
April 19, 2013
A study suggests that about 25% of women who are prescribed hormonal therapy to reduce the risk of recurrence after surgery either don’t start taking the medicine or stop taking it early. Read more…0 -
Study Finds Link Between Certain Genes and Lymphedema Development
April 19, 2013
A study suggests that certain genes may be linked to developing lymphedema. Read more…0 -
Study Finds Scientific Basis for Chemo Brain
April 25, 2013
A study has found a link between chemo brain and lower neuropsychological test scores. Read more…0 -
New Breast Cancer Progression Model Developed
April 25, 2013
Engineering researchers have developed a new model to help predict how a breast cancer will grow. Read more…0 -
Few Women Exercise Regularly 10 Years After Diagnosis
April 25, 2013
A study suggests that very few women who’ve been diagnosed with breast cancer meet U.S. national exercise recommendations during the 10 years after diagnosis. Read more…0 -
Computer-Aided Detection Mammograms Finds Cancers Earlier but Increases Risk of False-Positives
April 25, 2013
A large study suggests that using computer-aided detection to read older women’s mammograms means more invasive breast cancers are found earlier and more DCIS is found; there’s also a higher risk of a false-positive result. Read more…0 -
The study about younger women and outcome being linked to surgery raised a lot of questions for me.
I wonder if this is throwing too many apples and oranges together. Did a lot of the young women have more aggressive cancers?
So the bottom line is, does a young woman with a slow moving high ER cancer need to get to surgery quicker than a woman with the same cancer 10 years older.
I probably was at just about 6 weeks, but I went with the first surgeon I met with.
I feel like a lot of young women get scared and go for BMX out of fear and shock already.
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Thanks for the insight Cookiegal. For everyone's reference, this is the article you're referring to:
Young Women Should Have Surgery Within 6 Weeks Of Diagnosis
May 7, 2013
A study has found that young women who wait longer than 6 weeks to have breast cancer surgery have worse survival than young women who have surgery earlier. Read more…0 -
U.S. Mammogram Rates Didn’t Drop in 2011 Compared to 2008
May 7, 2013
A study has found that mammogram rates for women 40 and older didn’t decline in 2011 compared to 2008. Read more…0 -
High-Risk Women Often Don’t Take Risk Reducing Medicines Because of Side Effects
May 7, 2013
A report written for the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force says that many women at high risk of breast cancer don’t take medicines that can lower that risk because of side effects. Read more…0 -
Study Suggests Lack of Vitamin D Production During Winter Months May Make Tamoxifen Less Effective
May 20, 2013
A study by Canadian researchers suggests that lower vitamin D levels during winter months may interfere with tamoxifen’s effectiveness. Read more…0 -
Insurance Influences Type of Surgery Women Get for Early-Stage Breast Cancer
May 21, 2013
The type of insurance a woman has affects what type of surgery she has to treat early-stage breast cancer. Read more…0 -
SERM Hormonal Therapy Medicines Help Reduce Risk in Women at High Risk, but Aren’t Widely Used
May 21, 2013
A new study underscores the effectiveness of SERM hormonal therapy medicines to reduce breast cancer risk, but also found that they aren’t widely used because of concerns about side effects. Read more…0 -
Women with Cosmetic Implants May Have Worse Breast Cancer Survival Rates, but More Research Needed
May 22, 2013
A study has found that women with cosmetic breast implants seem to have worse survival rates if they’re diagnosed with breast cancer, but there are many questions about the study. Read more…0 -
Adding 3-D View to Screening Mammograms Seems to Improve Detection and Decrease False-Positives
May 22, 2013
The STORM study found that adding a three-dimensional view to a conventional two-dimensional mammogram found more cancers and lowered the number of false positives. Read more…0 -
Exercise May Lower Risk by Changing Estrogen Metabolism
May 23, 2013
A new study helps explain how exercise seems to lower breast cancer risk. Read more…0 -
Expanding Medicaid Coverage Offers Mixed Health Results Study Suggests
May 31, 2013
A study suggests that Medicaid doesn’t really improve the health of people covered, but does increase the use of preventive services and the rate of diabetes diagnoses, while lowering depression rates and reducing the financial stress of paying for healthcare. Read more…0 -
Black Women Are More Likely to Delay Chemotherapy
May 31, 2013
Black women are more likely than white women to delay chemotherapy; better communication between doctors and patients may help reduce this delay. Read more…0 -
Experimental Genomic Test May Help Identify Women at Higher Risk of Recurrence 5 Years After Diagnosis of Estrogen-Receptor-Positive Disease
May 31, 2013
An experimental test on genes from early-stage, hormone-receptor-positive breast cancer can estimate whether a woman has a higher or lower risk of having the cancer come back somewhere else in the body more than 5 years after diagnosis. Read more…0 -
Another Study Shows Ten Years of Tamoxifen Better Than Five for Early-Stage, Estrogen-Receptor-Positive Disease
June 4, 2013
Another large study finds 10 years of tamoxifen are better than 5. Read more…0 -
Watson Computer Helping Doctors Diagnose and Treat Cancer
June 12, 2013
Doctors are teaching Watson the computer to make breast cancer diagnostic and treatment recommendations. Read more…0 -
Anxiety, Not Depression, Seems to Be Problem for Long-Term Cancer Survivors and Spouses
June 12, 2013
A study suggests that anxiety is likely to be the biggest mental health issue for long-term cancer survivors and their spouses. Read more…0 -
Weekly Low-Dose Taxol Offers Same Benefits as Higher Dose Every Two Weeks with Different Side Effects
June 12, 2013
A study has found that getting Taxol (chemical name: paclitaxel) at a lower dose weekly offers the same benefits as getting a higher dose every 2 weeks. Read more…0 -
Why Do Many Younger Women Choose Mastectomy Over Lumpectomy?
June 12, 2013
A small study has found a number of reasons why younger women opt for mastectomy over lumpectomy plus radiation to treat early-stage breast cancer. Read more…0 -
Black Women Diagnosed with Breast Cancer More Likely to Have Abnormal Genes That Increase Their Risk
June 13, 2013
A small study suggests that more than 20% of black women diagnosed with breast cancer have inherited abnormal genes that increase their risk of breast cancer. Read more…0
