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Original Source: Spironolactone and risk of incident breast cancer in women older than 55 years: retrospective, matched cohort study
Objective To investigate whether exposure to spironolactone treatment affects the risk of incident breast cancer in women over 55 years of age.Design Retrospective, matched cohort study. Setting...
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Breast cancer in the UK is diagnosed in nearly 46,000 people each year, with just over 12,000 dying from breast cancer each year in he UK. There are several risk factors for developing b...
The humanized anti-Her2 monoclonal antibody Herceptin (trastuzumab) has become the mainstay in the treatment of Her2-positive breast cancer. Combining trastuzumab with the potent cytotoxic DM1 via a s...
Breast Implants - Augmentation
Breast implants are medical devices that are used to augment breast size or to reconstruct the breast following mastectomy or to correct a congenital abnormality. Breast implants consist of a silico...
Ovarian cancer is cancer that starts in the female reproductive organs, the ovaries. It is the fifth most common cancer among women. Women at risk of Ovarian cancer are those who have had fe...
Epithelial cell adhesion molecule EpCAM CD326
Epithelial cell adhesion molecule (EpCAM; CD326) is a cell surface protein that is frequently expressed at high level on most solid tumor types, including prostate, breast, colon, gastric, ovarian,...
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Breast cancer… do you know who diagnoses you?
Australian women have a 1 in 9 lifetime risk of developing breast cancer and 1 in every 100 breast cancers occurs in men. In 2012, it is estimated that 14,610 women will be diagnosed with breast canc...
Radiation after lumpectomy benefits elderly women with stage I breast cancer
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - For elderly women with stage I estrogen receptor positive breast cancer, disease-specific survival is better with adjuvant radiotherapy after lumpectomy than with lumpe...
Elderly women with early-stage breast cancer live longer with radiation therapy and surgery compared with surgery alone, researchers at the University of Maryland School of Medicine have found. The re...
Breast Cancer Rates Increase Among Young Women
There has been a small increase in the incidence of advanced stage breast cancer among women 25 to 39 years old, according to a recent study in JAMA. Breast cancer is the most common form of malignan...
Avoiding Mammograms in Elderly May Boost Breast Cancer Mortality
Holding off on screening mammograms in older women might increase their risk of dying from breast cancer, researchers concluded from an observational analysis of data from the Women's Health Initiativ...
Radiation treatment after surgery improves survival for elderly women with early-stage breast cancer
Elderly women with early-stage breast cancer live longer with radiation therapy and surgery compared with surgery alone, researchers at the University of Maryland School of Medicine have found. The re...
Regular Screening Can Eliminate Disparity In Breast Cancer Between Black And White Women
Regular mammography screening can help narrow the breast cancer gap between black and white women, according to a retrospective study published in Breast Cancer Research and Treatment. Earlier studies...
Age, not just comorbidity, affects breast cancer surgery rates in elderly
The high rates of elderly UK women with breast cancer who do not undergo surgical treatment are not entirely explained by the presence of comorbidities, report UK researchers.
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Knowledge of Breast Density and Awareness of Related Breast Cancer Risk.
Little is known about women's knowledge of breast density or between-race differences in this knowledge. In the current study, we examined knowledge of breast density and awareness of its role as a br...
Breast cancer continues to have a substantial impact on the health of women in the United States. It is the most commonly diagnosed cancer (excluding skin cancers) among women, with more than 210,000...
We investigated the efficacy and safety of single-agent pegylated liposomal doxorubicin (PLD) as first-line treatment for elderly women with advanced breast cancer and evaluated predictive markers for...
Should all BRCA1 mutation carriers with stage I breast cancer receive chemotherapy?
To estimate the 15-year survival following a diagnosis of stage I breast cancer among women who carry a BRCA1 mutation and to determine predictors of mortality, including the use of chemotherapy. Pati...
Rehabilitation after breast cancer: recommendations from young survivors.
Studies show that younger women have a greater physical, psychological, and social morbidity, and poorer quality of life after a breast cancer diagnosis than older women. With improving survival rates...
