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Week 34 of pregnancy reduces breast cancer risk: study
Women’s bodies undergo a “striking” change during a specific week of pregnancy that can significantly…
Beating breast cancer only to die of opioid use – a sad Appalachian story
Rajesh Balkrishnan, University of Virginia The availability of life-prolonging treatments such as hormonal therapies and…
ESMO 2018: Shorter-course trastuzumab could be an option in HER2 positive early breast cancers
Women with HER2-positive early breast cancer with small tumours have similar disease-free survival and lower…
ESMO 2018: One in six premenopausal early breast cancer patients do not adhere to hormonal therapy
Nearly one in six premenopausal women being treated for early stage breast cancer do not…
ESMO 2018: Epigenetic therapy worth pursuing in hormone receptor positive advanced breast cancer
Epigenetic therapy with histone deacetylase (HDAC) inhibitors is worth pursuing in hormone receptor positive advanced…
ESMO 2018: New option for women with advanced breast cancer resistant to hormone therapy
Treatment with the cyclin dependent kinase (CDK) 4/6 inhibitor palbociclib achieves a clinically meaningful improvement…
ESMO 2018: Some patients with metastatic triple negative breast cancer live longer with immunotherapy
Immunotherapy improves survival in some patients with metastatic triple negative breast cancer, according to late-breaking…
ESMO 2018: Targeting specific genomic mutation in breast cancer improves outcomes, first study shows
Targeting a common mutation in patients with hormone receptor positive (HR ) HER2 negative (HER2-)…
ESMO 2018: Zoledronic acid improves disease-free survival in premenopausal HR early breast cancer
Adjuvant treatment with the bone sparing drug zoledronic acid plus hormonal therapy with the aromatase…
ESMO 2018: Drugs for treating breast cancer in women are effective and well tolerated in men
There is growing evidence that drugs approved for the treatment of breast cancer in women…