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Using Certain High Blood Pressure Medicine Long-Term Linked to Higher Breast Cancer Risk
September 5, 2013
A study suggests that older women who have taken calcium-channel blockers to treat high blood pressure for 10 years or more have a higher risk of breast cancer. Read more…0 -
More Research Shows Avastin Doesn’t Help Treat Most Triple-Negative Breast Cancer
September 5, 2013
Adding Avastin to chemotherapy didn’t improve the outcomes of women diagnosed with early-stage, triple-negative breast cancer. Read more…0 -
New drug approved; see link:
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This drug has been around for years and IMO should have been approved years ago for early stage patients requiring chemo. Many of us would not have been left with permanent neuropathy from Taxol if we were allowed to get Abraxane! It is the toxic adjuvent carrier in Taxol that caused so many side effect problems for patients. When I asked to be switched from Taxol to Abraxane I was refused as it was not yet approved for us patients. Again, this is not a NEW drug simply it took them years to FINALLY allow access to another group of patients.
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How Do Diagnosed Young Women Make Decisions About Having Opposite Healthy Breast Removed?
September 20, 2013
A small study has found that most younger women diagnosed with early-stage breast cancer who decide to have the other healthy breast removed choose the surgery because they want to reduce their risk of breast cancer developing in the other breast and improve their survival, even though most of them know that removing the other healthy breast doesn’t really improve survival rates in women without an abnormal breast cancer gene. Read more…0 -
Cancer Survivors Have Better Sleep Quality If They Do Yoga
September 23, 2013
Gentle yoga may improve sleep quality in cancer survivors and reduce their need for medicines to help them sleep. Read more...0 -
Words Used to Describe DCIS Affect Treatment Choices
September 23, 2013
When the word “cancer” is used to describe DCIS, women think that more aggressive treatment is better than less aggressive treatment. Read more...0 -
Breast MRI May Cause Older Women to Choose Mastectomy Over Lumpectomy
September 26, 2013
A new study suggests that older women diagnosed with breast cancer who have a breast MRI before surgery to remove the cancer are more likely to choose mastectomy over lumpectomy. Read more...0 -
Boniva Doesn’t Reduce Risk of Recurrence
September 26, 2013
A new study has found that Boniva doesn’t reduce the risk of recurrence in women diagnosed with early-stage breast cancer with a high risk of recurrence. Read more...0 -
Only About 10% Of Women Accurately Estimate Their Breast Cancer Risk
September 26, 2013
A study suggests that fewer than 10% of women accurately estimate their risk of breast cancer; women were just as likely to overestimate risk as they were to underestimate it. Read more...0 -
Long-Term Breast Cancer Survivors Have Good Quality Of Life
September 28, 2013
A small study suggests that quality of life went up over time for long-term breast cancer survivors and was about the same as women who hadn’t been diagnosed with breast cancer. Read more…0 -
Drinking Before Motherhood Increases Risk
September 28, 2013
Teens and young women who have about one alcoholic drink per day between their first period and giving birth for the first time have a higher risk of breast cancer according to a new study. Read more…0 -
Women With Abnormal BRCA1 Gene Who Develop Breast Cancer Live Just as Long as Diagnosed Women Without BRCA1 Mutation
September 28, 2013
Research suggests that just as many younger women with an abnormal BRCA1 gene who develop breast cancer are alive 10 years after diagnosis as younger women without an abnormal BRCA1 gene who develop breast cancer. Read more…0 -
Study Suggests Partial-Breast Radiation Just as Good as Whole-Breast Radiation After Lumpectomy
September 28, 2013
A small study with 10 years of follow-up suggests partial-breast radiation is as effective as whole-breast radiation at preventing breast cancer recurrence. Read more…0 -
Study Reinforces Benefits of Mammograms for Younger Women
September 28, 2013
More than 70% of deaths from breast cancer are in women aged 40 to 49 who don’t get regular mammograms a large study suggests. Read more…0 -
Experts Say U.S. Faces Crisis in Cancer Care
September 28, 2013
Increasing demand for cancer care, fewer cancer doctors, and the rising cost of treatment are combining to create a crisis in cancer care in the United States, according to a new report. Read more…0 -
Breast Cancer Treatments Seem to Increase Risk of Heart Problems
September 28, 2013
A new study suggests that breast cancer treatments may cause changes in body composition and blood pressure that increase the risk of heart problems. Read more…0 -
Study Suggests Testosterone May Help Ease Menopausal Symptoms Without Increasing Breast Cancer Risk
September 28, 2013
Early results from a study suggest that testosterone implanted under the skin as a pellet helps ease menopausal symptoms without increase breast cancer risk. Read more…0 -
Kadcyla Improves Survival in Women Diagnosed With Advanced-Stage HER2-Positive Disease
October 1, 2013
Results from the TH3RESA study show that Kadcyla improved the time women diagnosed with advanced-stage HER2-positive disease lived without the cancer growing compared to a treatment of their doctor’s choice. Read more...0 -
Long-Term Results Show That Radiation Therapy After Lumpectomy to Remove DCIS Reduces Recurrence Risk
October 4, 2013
A study found that radiation therapy given after DCIS is removed by lumpectomy reduces the risk that the DCIS will come back. Read more...0 -
FDA Approves Using Perjeta Before Surgery to Treat High-Risk HER2-Positive Breast Cancer
October 4, 2013
The FDA granted accelerated approval for using Perjeta in combination with Herceptin and Taxotere before surgery to treat HER2-positive, early-stage, inflammatory, or advanced-stage breast cancer with a high risk of metastasizing or becoming fatal. Read more...0 -
Lower Dose of Radiation Seems Just as Good as Standard Regimen for Early-Stage Disease
October 14, 2013
A study compared the standard radiation therapy schedule to shorter, lower-dose radiation schedules and found that the risk of early-stage breast cancer coming back was about the same for all the schedules. The lower-dose schedules also had fewer effects on healthy breast tissue. Read more...0 -
U.S. Task Force Recommends Offering Hormonal Therapy Medicine to Women With High Risk for Breast Cancer
October 14, 2013
The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force has recommended that women with a high risk of breast cancer but who haven’t been diagnosed be offered medicines that can lower that risk. Read more...0 -
Chemo Brain Could Be Hormonal Therapy Brain
October 14, 2013
A small study suggests that hormonal therapy medicines may contribute to chemo brain more than chemotherapy does. Read more...0 -
Research Suggests Treating Neck and Chest Lymph Nodes With Radiation Improves Overall Survival in Early-Stage Disease
October 23, 2013
A study suggests that women diagnosed with early-stage breast cancer that had spread to the lymph nodes had better overall survival when they received radiation to the internal mammary and supraclavicular lymph nodes. Read more...0 -
Another Study Finds Diabetes Seems to Up Breast Cancer Risk
October 23, 2013
Another study has found that women diagnosed with diabetes were more likely to be diagnosed with breast cancer than women who aren’t diabetic. Read more...0 -
New ASCO Guidelines Call for Determining HER2 Status of Every Invasive Breast Cancer
October 23, 2013
The American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) has put out new guidelines on HER2 testing for breast cancer. Read more...0 -
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Is this the right link for the night work study results?0 -
TamD, thanks for catching that! The link for "Another Study Suggests Night Work Raises Risk" has been updated. You can read the article here:
https://www.breastcancer.org/research-news/20120621-2
Thanks again, and we apologize for the mistake!
--The Mods0
