Topic: Breaking Research News from sources other than Breastcancer.org

Jan 1, 2021 08:50PM moth wrote:

Hi Springdaisy - I guess I drew the short straw. When I ran the stats in Predict https://breast.predict.nhs.uk/tool 89% of women with my stats were alive at 5 years. I used that as a proxy for metastatic recurrence... so 1/10 like me would recur with terminal disease. Tried to do my best to lessen the risk - the only evidence based interventions seem to be exercise and maybe green tea. I did that. I exercised before I got stage 1 too so didn't work then either. Didn't work to prevent progression so I guess there's some powerful cancer genetics at work & I got to be one out of 10 :(

triple neg has a different mets timeline than hormone positive. We're more likely to recur at all but if we do, it's in the first 5 years so if we make it past 5, the risk starts falling. Hormone positive has this long tail of ongoing risk so a different risk profile. This cancer thing sucks all around & part of what's missing in breast cancer discussions is that it still kills very many of us. So much talk of 'survivors' and pink ribbons that sometimes it's easy to forget it's fatal to many.

Jan 2, 2021 08:56AM YesIamaDragon wrote:

The trouble is cancer is not a disease any more than "virus" is a disease. Even within breast cancer effective treatments are radically different for all the different subtypes. So there will never be one cure for "cancer" any more than there will be one cure for all viruses, from cold viruses to polio to HIV.

I just finished a year and a half of chemo, which brings my 3 year "risk" of disease-free survival to 89% Improved, but not great.

My oncologist is very honest with me, "the only way to know you are a survivor is to die of something else" Breast cancers suck.

Jan 7, 2021 03:18PM AlabamaDee wrote:

Preliminary study of how adiposity influences breast cancer biology, treatment resistance, and disease progression shows High BMI related to effectiveness of doxataxel!

This is a surprise revelation and shocking to me, 😳 Since my BMI was much higher when I was on taxotere. Hope they study this more.

Dee

https://www.medpagetoday.com/reading-room/asco/breast-cancer/90523?xid=NL_ASCORR_2021-01-07&eun=g20811420d39r&pos=

Jan 8, 2021 09:13AM JoynerL wrote:

This is interesting:

Gut Microbe May Promote Breast Cancer

Jan 9, 2021 06:32PM Lumpie wrote:

Hi santabarbarian! I am ok, thank you for checking....and I am very glad that you and others appreciate the topic/board. I have a couple of things I need to post. The new-ish med I am on is doing a job on my digestive system and I feel like I am always behind/moving in slow motion. Hope you are well and.... at this point, I am almost reluctant to speculate about how the year might ging.... but hope you ... and eveyone else, too!.... have a healthy and happy new year!

Jan 10, 2021 02:02PM MinusTwo wrote:

Me too - Thanks Lumpie.

Jan 10, 2021 02:19PM buttonsmachine wrote:

Yes. Thank you, Lumpie!

Jan 10, 2021 04:57PM BlueGirlRedState wrote:

Thank you for the post on gut health. We are complex animals and many things seemed to get overlooked, dismissed, or are poorly understood. The bacdterium mentioined, Bacteroides fragilis, normally in the colon wrecks havoc elsewhere, unsurprisingly. But does it escape unnoticed? Lifestyle is so important. Is kimchi, sour kraut, yogurt etc enough for a healthy gut?

Jan 11, 2021 01:02PM 2019whatayear wrote:

Thank you Lumpie for your tending of this post! I too sometimes come to the site just to read the latest updates on this post

Jan 11, 2021 03:24PM 2019whatayear wrote:

NCI aims to track BC recurrenceSharing this - long overdue -

Jan 11, 2021 06:56PM YesIamaDragon wrote:

I will add my thanks Lumpie. I check this thread at least once a day!

Jan 11, 2021 09:29PM AlabamaDee wrote:

t Lumpie- glad to “see” you - we missed you while you were out recuperating .

Recommended treatment graph for metastatic

https://www.esmo.org/content/download/395915/7703117/1/Clinical%20Practice%20Guidelines%20Slideset%20Advanced%20Breast%20Cancer.pdf

Dee

Jan 12, 2021 12:38PM Lumpie wrote:

Thank you so much, everyone, for your kind and encouraging comments! You have made my week and I truly appreciate it.

-Lumpie

Jan 12, 2021 06:56PM Lumpie wrote:

ASCO commentary on the covid-19 vaccine for cancer patients.

In short...

At this time, only those with contraindications to a specific vaccine component should not be offered vaccination with that specific product. These contraindications are described in detail on the CDC's vaccination clinical considerations page.

... patients undergoing treatment may be offered vaccination against COVID-19 as long as any components of the vaccine are not contraindicated.

https://www.asco.org/asco-coronavirus-resources/co...

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Jan 12, 2021 09:09PM Lumpie wrote:

Symptoms such as pain, fatigue and pruritus often went underrecognized among patients with breast cancer treated with radiotherapy, according to study results presented at the virtual San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium.

Black patients and younger patients appeared at significantly higher risk for symptom underrecognition, results showed.

"We were disappointed to find that physicians frequently didn't recognize the severity of the symptoms patients themselves reported they were experiencing," Reshma Jagsi, MD, DPhil, Newman family professor and deputy chair of the department of radiation oncology and director of Center for Bioethics and Social Sciences in Medicine at University of Michigan, told Healio.

"Because physicians cannot help patients if they don't know who is suffering, improving symptom detection appears to be a way to improve the quality of care and to reduce disparities in cancer treatment experiences and outcomes," Jagsi added. "The findings also suggest that clinical trials should not rely on physician reports alone to evaluate the side effects of treatments; patient-reported outcomes provide an important complement to physician evaluations."

https://www.healio.com/news/hematology-oncology/20...

Source: Jagsi R, et al. Abstract GS3-07. Presented at: San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium (virtual meeting); Dec. 8-11, 2020.

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