Do Hot Flashes During Anti-Estrogen Therapy Impact Breast Cancer Prognosis?
Most breast cancers are estrogen receptor-positive (ER+), approximately 70-80%. There is little doubt that HOT FLASHES are the most common adverse effect….
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Is Hormone Replacement Safe After Breast Cancer? Maybe Not.
Arguments have persisted for many years regarding the safety of using hormone replacement during or after the treatment for early-stage (stage I or II) breast cancer. …
Do Breast Cancers With A Low Level Of Estrogen Receptors Behave More Like The More Aggressive Triple-negative Cancers?
Researchers suggest that there may be some important and meaningful clinical activity using a new class of drugs and ER-low cancers….
Does progesterone assist breast cancer cells evade the immune system?
The link between hormones and breast cancer growth has been known for many years and is led to the development of many therapies which have saved countless lives. …
Incidence of implant-associated lymphoma from textured Implants may be higher than expected
In 1997 the first case of a T-cell lymphoma associated with the implant around a silicone capsule was first described by JA Keech and BJ Creech in the Journal of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery. …
Can Targeted Biologic Treatments Be Used Without Chemotherapy In Her2+ Cancers? Well, Yes And No.
Those patients who had a complete pathological response (no tumor present after anti-HER2 or chemotherapy or both before surgery) had an excellent outcome even without chemotherapy. …
Should we continue to perform sentinel node biopsy in older-aged women?
With the great strides in tumor biology, we appear to be at a precipice where the requirement for any axillary surgery in specific subsets of women will be unnecessary….
Breast Cancer Can And Does Recur After 10 Years
Slightly over half of women with early-stage breast cancer remain disease-free for at least ten years. Unfortunately, recurrences continue beyond the ten-year mark….
Is Tumor Gene Testing Effective with Lobular Breast Cancer?
The authors demonstrated that the distribution of RS in patients with ILC is different than in those with IDC. Far fewer patients with ILC had a high RS than those with IDC….
Routine Use Of Liquid Biopsy Draws Near
A liquid biopsy is the removal of blood, plasma, or other secretions such as stool, to examine for circulating tumor cells or circulating tumor DNA. …
