Fall 2024 Breast Cancer Research Round Up

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Fall 2024 Breast Cancer Research Round Up

Feb 7, 2025

What does the latest breast cancer research mean for you? Dr. Kathy Miller explains.

Hormonal birth control increases breast cancer risk in women with a BRCA1 mutation, but not women with a BRCA2 mutation. Levonorgestrel IUDs increase risk, but how much? The long-term risk of breast cancer coming back — recurring — as metastatic disease has gone down in the last 20 years, but younger women still have a higher risk than older women.

What does all this mean? Breastcancer.org Professional Advisory Board member Dr. Kathy Miller discusses the details of these studies and how they may affect you.

Listen to the episode to hear Dr. Miller discuss these studies:

• hormonal birth control ups risk of breast cancer in women with a BRCA1 mutation
• levonorgestrel IUDs increase risk
• breastfeeding after breast cancer seems safe
• the long-term risk of late, distant recurrence has gone down but age affects that risk

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