Breast-cancer patients who are taking hormone-therapy drugs known as aromatase inhibitors (AIs) can improve their health outcome through a combination of resistance and aerobic exercise, according to a researcher from Syracuse University. Gwendolyn Thomas, assistant professor of exercise science , is the co-author of a groundbreaking article in the Obesity Journal (The Obesity Society, 2017)… Continue reading Exercise and Breast-Cancer Drugs
Category: Breast Cancer
Mammograms: What You Need to Know from The FDA
Mammograms are still the best tool for breast cancer screening. And the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) certifies facilities that perform mammography —and clears and approves new mammography devices—to help keep you safe. How Does the Test Work—and Is It Painful? A mammogram is a low-dose X-ray picture of the breast. Getting a mammogram… Continue reading Mammograms: What You Need to Know from The FDA
Radiologists Can Detect Breast Cancer in Less than A Second
Radiologists can detect breast cancer in the “blink of an eye” while studying mammograms, according to new research. The study, by investigators at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in collaboration with researchers at the University of York and Leeds in the UK and MD Anderson Cancer Center in Texas, was published in the Proceedings of the… Continue reading Radiologists Can Detect Breast Cancer in Less than A Second
Why Some Breast-Cancer Tumors Resist Medicine
A team of Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine cancer researchers has uncovered one way certain tumors resist vital medication. In the study, published in Oncotarget, the researchers studied tumor biopsies collected from breast cancer patients before and after treatment with the go-to breast cancer drug trastuzumab (also known as Herceptin). Some of the… Continue reading Why Some Breast-Cancer Tumors Resist Medicine
Preventive Steps Substantially Reduce Cancer Risk
If people follow cancer prevention recommendations on diet and physical activity, overall cancer incidence and mortality will be reduced, according to results of a systematic review published in Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research. Adherence to the guidelines set by leading cancer organizations also was associated with… Continue reading Preventive Steps Substantially Reduce Cancer Risk
Why Some Women Don’t Follow Up on Breast-Cancer Therapy
Researchers have found that patients who did not adhere to their medication schedule for chronic conditions, such as diabetes, prior to a breast cancer diagnosis were twice as likely to skip oral adjuvant hormonal therapy after their diagnosis. Patients who skipped medications for their chronic conditions had a 23 percent non-adherence rate to hormone treatment,… Continue reading Why Some Women Don’t Follow Up on Breast-Cancer Therapy
Women Who Use Alternative Medical Techniques Tend to Postpone Chemotherapy
Women with early stage breast cancer were less likely to start chemotherapy if they used alternative therapies, according to latest research led by Heather Greenlee, ND, PhD, associate professor of Epidemiology at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health. The study, one of the first to examine the interaction betweeh complementary alternative medicine (CAM) and… Continue reading Women Who Use Alternative Medical Techniques Tend to Postpone Chemotherapy
Innovative Technique for Reconstructing Breast after Mastectomy
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center plastic surgeons have developed a new breast reconstruction technique that combines advantages of two different types of microsurgical procedures using abdominal and other tissue to reconstruct the breast after a mastectomy. A release from the university explains that flap-based procedures use a woman’s own tissue taken from the abdomen,… Continue reading Innovative Technique for Reconstructing Breast after Mastectomy
Use of Breast Conservation Surgery for Cancer Decreases
In a study published online by JAMA Surgery on February 17th 2016, Art Sedrakyan, M.D., Ph.D., of Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, and colleagues examined the use of breast conservation surgery (BCS) in New York State and determined rates of reoperation, procedure choice, and the effect of surgeon experience on the odds of a… Continue reading Use of Breast Conservation Surgery for Cancer Decreases
Does Radiation Therapy Improve Survival for Women with Ductal Carcinoma in Situ?
Approximately 60,000 patients in the United States will receive a diagnosis of ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) in 2016. DCIS is not an invasive form of cancer and the 10-year survival rate for women with DCIS is greater than 98 percent. However, incidence of DCIS has increased dramatically over the last three decades, and being… Continue reading Does Radiation Therapy Improve Survival for Women with Ductal Carcinoma in Situ?
Older People May Be Getting Cancer Screenings That Are Not Recommended
An estimated 15.7 percent of people 65 or older may have received screenings for prostate and breast cancers that were not recommended because the patients had limited life expectancies of less than 10 years, according to an article published online in January 2016 by JAMA Oncology. A release from the publishers notes that existing guidelines… Continue reading Older People May Be Getting Cancer Screenings That Are Not Recommended
Travel Distance Affects Reconstructive Breast-Cancer Surgery
Long travel distances are still a significant obstacle to breast reconstruction after surgery, according to a new study. The research was reported in Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery®, the official medical journal of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS). “While greater patient awareness and insurance coverage have contributed to breast reconstruction rates in the United… Continue reading Travel Distance Affects Reconstructive Breast-Cancer Surgery
Breast-Cancer Drug May Help Fight Other Cancers
A new drug that’s been shown to fight breast cancer alone and in combination with endocrine therapy also combat other types of the illness, according to a University of Pennsylvania study published in JAMA Oncology. Palbociclib targets the rapid division of tumor cells by inhibiting the activity of the enzymes CDK4 and CDK6, which propel… Continue reading Breast-Cancer Drug May Help Fight Other Cancers
Breast Cancer Drugs’ Side Effects May Depend on Patient’s Age
Two leading breast cancer drugs cause different symptoms depending on the age of the woman who is taking the drug, researchers say. The findings could be an important step toward personalized medicine for women with breast cancer, said Dr. Patricia Ganz, director of the UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center’s Prevention and Control Research program and… Continue reading Breast Cancer Drugs’ Side Effects May Depend on Patient’s Age
A Double Treatment for Breast Cancer
Researchers have developed a combination treatment that may lead to new therapies for breast cancer. The treatment, developed by scientists from University Hospital, Basel, Switzerland, have for the first time successfully combined anti-cancer molecules with a therapy that stimulates to attack tumor cells. The discovery was reported in the journal Science Translational Medicine. In nearly… Continue reading A Double Treatment for Breast Cancer
Detection of Early-Stage Breast Cancer Increases With Age
The mammography detection rate of an early-stage but potentially invasive type of breast cancer rises with age, according to a large new study from Germany published online in October 2015 the journal Radiology. A release from the Radiological Society of North America explains that ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS), a type of breast cancer confined… Continue reading Detection of Early-Stage Breast Cancer Increases With Age
What You Should Know about Male Breast Cancer
Although it’s uncommon, breast cancer can occur in men, and it can be serious. According to the American Cancer Society, about 2,350 cases of invasive male breast cancer will be discovered in 2015, and about 440 men will die of the illness. Those figures highlight the importance of knowing as much as possible about male breast… Continue reading What You Should Know about Male Breast Cancer
Optical Method for Faster, More Accurate Diagnosis of Breast Cancer
A new optical method for more quickly and accurately determining whether breast tissue lesions are cancerous is described by University of Illinois researchers in the August 2015 issue of Journal of Biomedical Optics, published by SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics. A release from SPIE notes that the researchers report on a quantitative… Continue reading Optical Method for Faster, More Accurate Diagnosis of Breast Cancer