Tag: Cancer: Breast
Breast Cancer Risk Up With Dense Breasts, Benign Breast Disease
Elevated risk also seen for benign breast disease and fatty breasts and extremely dense breasts without benign breast disease
Digital Breast Tomosynthesis Tool Can Help Predict Breast Cancer
DBT-based risk model can predict cancer after a negative screening exam, with high discriminative performance for one-year risk
Having MS May Impact Cancer Screening, Diagnosis
Patients with multiple sclerosis and breast cancer less likely to have screen-detected breast cancer
Vitamin D Level, Race/Ethnicity Tied to Breast Cancer Risk
Sufficient circulating vitamin D concentration linked to lower risk for breast cancer in Hispanic/Latina women
Adding Ribociclib to Letrozole Prolongs Survival in Advanced Breast Cancer
Reduced risk for death seen with letrozole plus ribociclib versus placebo in postmenopausal women with HR-positive, HER2-negative disease
Family Breast Cancer History Tied to Breast Density on Mammo
Authors say findings show the need to start annual screening earlier in premenopausal women with a family history of breast cancer
Patients Confused, Concerned About Diagnosis, Treatment of DCIS
In web-based survey, participants expressed concern about 'cancer spreading' or becoming invasive, not doing enough to prevent recurrence
Daily Aspirin Does Not Prevent Recurrence of Breast Cancer
Compared with placebo, daily aspirin did not improve invasive disease-free survival in patients with high-risk, HER2-negative breast cancer
Aromatase Inhibitors May Benefit Premenopausal Women With Breast Cancer
For premenopausal women receiving ovarian suppression, risk for breast cancer recurrence reduced with aromatase inhibitor versus tamoxifen
Neoadjuvant Pembrolizumab Plus Chemo Treats Early TNBC
Rate of event-free survival higher with neoadjuvant pembrolizumab plus chemo versus chemo alone for early triple-negative breast cancer