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Cancer patients are at higher risk of dying from heart disease and stroke
More than one in ten cancer patients do not die from their cancer but from…
Breast cancer recurrence score has different implications for men
The TAILORx study published last year offered good news for women with early-stage ER-positive breast…
ABC5: Patients with advanced breast cancer are being denied access to life-prolonging drugs
Survival for patients with the most common forms of advanced breast cancer could be substantially…
Researchers block metastasis-promoting enzyme, halt spread of breast cancer
In a breakthrough with important implications for the future of immunotherapy for breast cancer, UC…
Findings could identify aggressive breast cancers that will respond to immunotherapy
University of North Carolina Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, USA, researchers have discovered a promising method…
ABC5: Results from largest group of advanced breast cancer patients answers questions about efficacy of T-DM1 when cancer returns following treatment with pertuzumab
Patients with HER2-positive breast cancer, whose disease has progressed after being treated initially with pertuzumab…
High expression of apoptosis protein (Api-5) in chemoresistant triple-negative breast cancers
78 TNBC biopsies from patients with different responses to chemotherapy were analysed for API-5 expression…
ABC5: Giving breast cancer patients an average survival time is more often wrong than right
Doctors who give advanced breast cancer patients just one estimate, such as 12 months, for…
ABC5: Complementary therapies can do more harm than good when breast cancer becomes visible
Patients with advanced breast cancer that has spread to the skin are likely to cause…
Getting cancer drugs to the brain is difficult, but a new ‘road map’ might make it easier
The human brain has some remarkable capabilities – including the ability to block cancer drugs…