Researchers have pinpointed variations in 2 genes that can help predict which women at high risk of breast cancer will respond to preventive treatment. The findings represent a major step toward personalized breast cancer prevention therapy, the study authors said…. Read More ›
Members of families with a history of certain cancers may miss out on potentially life-saving screening tests or treatment because many forego genetic testing to estimate their cancer risk, according to researchers in France. Investigators from cancer centers throughout France… Read More ›
Earlier this week, Academy Award–winning actress Angelina Jolie candidly shared her choices in a New York Times op-ed about being tested for gene mutations that increase the risk of breast cancer and having a preventive mastectomy after testing positive. In… Read More ›
For women who have early-stage breast cancer, examining the clinical characteristics of tumors and the treatment they have been given is more effective than new genetic tests in predicting the likelihood of a recurrence more than 5 years after diagnosis,… Read More ›
Women aged 50 to 74 years who undergo screening mammography every other year, even those with high breast density or a history of hormone therapy after menopause, appear no more likely to be diagnosed with advanced-stage breast cancer than comparable… Read More ›
Breast cancer researchers and nutritionists have struggled for years to answer a complex question: is dairy consumption related to breast cancer? Findings released today begin to chip away at the uncertainty. In women already diagnosed with breast cancer, consuming at… Read More ›
More young women in the United States apparently are being diagnosed with advanced breast cancer than in the past, a trend not seen among older women, according to a study appearing today in JAMA. Although the numbers remain small, the… Read More ›
People worried about the effects of workplace stress on their health can probably relax on one count: research appearing today in BMJ suggests that work-related stress is unlikely to be an important risk factor for cancer. About 90% of cancers… Read More ›
Most researchers conducting clinical trials hope their work pays off in positive results demonstrating that an experimental intervention benefits patients. But when a trial produces negative findings that a treatment is not helpful or that it has adverse effects, some… Read More ›
Many people are aware that when an individual develops cancer, especially an early-onset cancer, that event often signals that family members may have a hereditary risk for the malignancy. Now, new research underscores that the appearance of cancer later in… Read More ›
