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Breast cancer epidemiology
be treated successfully and that the chance of survival in such cases is much higher. Available population-based data on breast cancer...
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Researchers develop comprehensive new way to predict breast cancer risk
Research UK has helped to double breast cancer survival over the last 40 years. Dr Richard Roope, Cancer Research UK’s GP expert, s...
Weight loss linked to lower breast cancer risk for postmenopausal women
significant improvement in breast cancer overall survival. These findings, taken together, provide strong correlative evidence that a...
Increasing breastfeeding worldwide could prevent over 800,000 child deaths and 20,000 deaths from breast cancer every year
of breastfeeding, the rich-poor gap in child survival would be even wider. Our findings should reassure policymakers that a rapid...
For breast cancer patients, never too late to quit smoking
cancer, and is one of the largest studies of survival outcomes according to smoking habits in women with a history of breast cancer,... cessation, breast cancer, survival...
Benefits of mammography screening outweigh adverse effects for women aged 50–69 years
Laudico A, Bhurgri Y, Bah E, Al-Hamdan N. Cancer survival in Africa, Asia, and Central America: a population-based study. The Lancet...
Vaccine targeting breast cancers produced robust immune response
with the vaccine had prolonged progression-free survival compared with those who did not receive the vaccine; however, the study was...
EUROCARE-5: Survival times of Czech cancer patients are now significantly longer than before
Survival times of Czech cancer patients are now significantly longer than... survival still varies widely between European countries despite major improvements in... has been a major increase in survival rates for most cancer types, meaning that the Czech Republic is no longer... relative survival, EUROCARE-5, comparison of European...
Global cancer burden rises to 14.1 million new cases in 2012: Marked increase in breast cancers must be addressed
points to a later diagnosis and much poorer survival in eastern Africa. “An urgent need in cancer control today is to develop e...
New anti-cancer compound shows promise for breast cancer
high levels of BCL-2, which is a so-called ‘pro-survival’ protein that helps cancer cells to become immortal, and can help them to s...
Early mammograms in young women at increased breast cancer risk may save lives
stage, potentially improving their chance of survival...
Mammograms reveal response to common cancer drug
of tamoxifen was related to breast cancer survival. Women who experienced a pronounced density reduction of 20 percent or more...
Heart disease risk after breast cancer radiotherapy smaller than previously thought
cancer and has played a major role in improving survival for the disease to over 85 per cent. This research means that doctors will be...
Better survival rates seen with lumpectomy compared with mastectomy for early breast cancer
survival rates seen with lumpectomy compared with mastectomy for early breast... may provide patients with a better chance of survival than mastectomy. Published early online in CANCER, a peer-reviewed journal of... E. S., Lichtensztajn, D. Y. et al. (2013). Survival after lumpectomy and mastectomy for early stage invasive breast cancer: The... mastectomy, breast-conserving surgery, survival rates, breast...
Inherited gene fault influences breast cancer survival
gene fault influences breast cancer survival... cancer, survival rate, gene fault, ER-positive breast...
Study highlights potential drug target for one in ten breast cancers
this group of women, who tend to have poorer survival and for whom there are currently no targeted treatments. The study is...
Obese and overweight women face increased risk of recurrence of most common type of breast cancer
other factors affecting cancer recurrence and survival. The researchers found that increasing body mass index—a measure of the b...
Physical activity linked to reduced mortality in breast and colon cancer patients
association between physical activity and cancer survival, Rachel Ballard-Barbash, M.D., of the Applied Research Program in the Division...
Scientists re-write rule book on breast cancer in landmark global study
should one day be able to predict survival more accurately in women with breast cancer based on these new subtypes, and...
Breast cancer and heart disease may have common roots
is an essential regulator of heart function and survival following myocardial infarction Nature Communications DOI:...
Breast cancer survival rates boost
cancer survival rates... aggressive form of the disease could help boost survival rates, a study has found... research also found that the survival rate for patients given chemotherapy drug Adriamycin was similar to the...
Drug prolongs lives of patients with hormone-sensitive breast cancer
receptor positive breast cancer, tamoxifen, survival...
Worse outcome for breast cancer patients with other health problems
as a group are associated with poorer overall survival and higher overall death rates among breast cancer patients. In this study,... cancer, comorbidities, mortality rates, survival...
Poorer women less likely to survive breast cancer
in part, explain why England’s breast cancer survival rates are lower than in some other countries. Poorer women are being diagnosed...
New digital method for breast cancer prognosis
for predicting invasive breast cancer survival Journal of Translational Medicine DOI:...
Trial results confirm five years of tamoxifen boosts breast cancer survival
five years of tamoxifen boosts breast cancer survival... for five years gives the best chance of survival from breast cancer. But this randomised trial - led by researchers based at...
Gene target may block breast cancer recurrence and boost survival
may block breast cancer recurrence and boost survival... Developing drugs to block POLQ could increase survival and stop the cancer coming back, according to research published in OncoTarget... block POLQ may be able to reverse the very poor survival associated with over production of this gene.” The reason why POLQ is l...
Sea sponge drug may extend advanced breast cancer survival
sponge drug may extend advanced breast cancer survival...