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Prospective study supports use of 21-gene assay to spare chemotherapy in breast cancer

study supports use of 21-gene assay to spare chemotherapy in breast... women with breast cancer who can be spared chemotherapy, reports the New England Journal of Medicine... features and predict benefit from adjuvant chemotherapy in oestrogen-receptor-positive disease. Since validation in prospectively... score, breast cancer, chemotherapy, 21-gene expression...

Family history of breast cancer doesn't mean a poor prognosis for women who develop the disease

may be more sensitive to certain types of chemotherapy,” said Professor Eccles. “If the outlook is more optimistic than might be exp...

A blood test for early detection of breast cancer metastasis

surgery, but also radiation, hormone therapy or chemotherapy. “It is believed that many women with breast cancer are being overtreated, w...

Men with high oestrogen levels could be at greater risk of breast cancer

had a mastectomy and then follow-up treatment of chemotherapy and radiotherapy. His treatment ended in September 2010. He said: “The police s...

Vaccine targeting breast cancers produced robust immune response

completed standard treatment regimens, such as chemotherapy, surgery, irradiation, to minimise the risk of recurrence,” Gillanders said. “...

New anti-cancer compound shows promise for breast cancer

to become immortal, and can help them to survive chemotherapy and other treatments. “Drs Vaillant and Merino looked at the effect of a...

Obese and overweight women face increased risk of recurrence of most common type of breast cancer

and death, despite optimal treatment including chemotherapy and hormonal therapy. There was a stepwise relationship between increasing...

Chemotherapy during pregnancy does not appear to increase complications for newborn infants

Chemotherapy during pregnancy does not appear to increase complications for newborn... babies of breast cancer patients who undergo chemotherapy while pregnant do not appear to be at higher risk of complications, according... pregnant. 197 (48%) of the women underwent chemotherapy during pregnancy, and the authors assessed whether their newborn babies... chemotherapy, pregnancy, breast...

Breast cancer survival rates boost

chemotherapy and the drug Herceptin to treat early-stage breast cancer for women with an... found that the survival rate for patients given chemotherapy drug Adriamycin was similar to the survival rate for patients whose drug...

Drug prolongs lives of patients with hormone-sensitive breast cancer

mortality by at least a third, whether or not chemotherapy has been given. Tamoxifen was developed 50 years ago and is long out of...

Poorer women less likely to survive breast cancer

the diagnosis if they need both mastectomy and chemotherapy. Fortunately breast screening with mammograms is finding earlier stage cancers...

Gene target may block breast cancer recurrence and boost survival

to treatments such as radiotherapy and chemotherapy but not increase the side effects caused to healthy cells. “Drugs that b...

New molecular marker could predict if breast cancer patients need chemotherapy

could predict if breast cancer patients need chemotherapy... breast cancer patients would benefit from chemotherapy has been identified by a team of scientists... could help doctors assess whether or not chemotherapy will benefit a patient - a big challenge faced by doctors when treating breast...

Sea sponge drug may extend advanced breast cancer survival

Oncology led an international trial of the new chemotherapy drug, eribulin mesylate. The drug is based on a natural substance from the...

New drug may help women with hereditary breast cancer

Australia, all of whom had previously received chemotherapy for advanced breast cancer, and who carried faulty copies of the BRCA1 or 2...