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Guidance on supplemental breast cancer screening for women with dense breast tissue
An article published in the October issue of Mayo Clinic Proceedings offers recommendations for clinicians and patients…
Repurposed drug shows improved results with combined therapy for triple negative breast cancer
A drug used to treat cardiac failure has shown promising results in treating triple-negative breast…
Investigator helps chart progress in clinical trial of patients with chemoresistant triple-negative breast cancer
The Lundquist Institute’s investigator Dr. Delphine Lee participated in a clinical trial that tested an…
SABCS 2021: Black women are more likely to develop lymphedema following breast cancer treatment than white women
Black women experienced higher rates of breast cancer-related lymphedema than white women, and Black race…
SABCS 2021: Common diabetes drug not effective against early-stage breast cancer, landmark trial reveals
A widely used and inexpensive Type 2 diabetes drug, once hoped to hold enormous promise…
SABCS 2021: Using genomics to match treatments improved outcomes for certain patients with metastatic breast cancer
The use of multigene sequencing as a therapeutic decision tool improved the outcomes for patients with metastatic breast…
SABCS 2021: Investigational therapy pyrotinib with chemotherapy may improve outcomes in patients with pretreated HER2-positive breast cancer
Among patients with previously treated HER2-positive metastatic breast cancer, those who received pyrotinib plus capecitabine…
SABCS 2021: Elacestrant may improve outcomes for patients whose metastatic breast cancers progressed on prior endocrine therapy
The investigational oral selective oestrogen receptor degrader (SERD) elacestrant significantly decreased the risk of death…
SABCS 2021: Tamoxifen may boost PI3K signalling to increase uterine cancer risk in patients with breast cancer
Uterine cancers that developed in patients treated with tamoxifen had fewer PI3K pathway mutations and may…
SABCS 2021: Single-cell spatial analysis may help predict response to neoadjuvant immunotherapy in triple-negative breast cancer
A next-generation technology that allows the study of protein expression at the single-cell level and…