Breast Cancer

Findings suggest that current standard treatment does not eliminate the risk of breast cancer-specific death in the 20 years after DCIS diagnosis.

In this episode of Managed Care Cast, we speak with a male patient with breast cancer who was diagnosed with metastatic disease in 2016 about how he lives his life and what he wants people to know about this rare cancer.

Results from a study on Canadian women who did and did not participate in a population-based breast cancer screening program show that interval breast cancers are more aggressive and deadlier than screening-detected cancers.

There is a clear need for better therapies to treat triple-negative breast cancer, especially when progression-free survival is around 2%, says Aditya Bardia, MBBS, MPH, breast medical oncologist at Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School.

A novel combination shows promise against advanced solid tumors, including triple-negative breast cancer, noted Timothy A. Yap, MBBS, PhD, FRCP, medical director of the Institute for Applied Cancer Science at MD Anderson Cancer Center.

Aspirin is a known anti-inflammatory agent, but few studies have investigated its use among African American women to reduce the risk of breast cancer.

A study out of Scotland has linked levels of 2 short-chain fatty acids in female patients with early-stage breast cancer to pathological complete response (pCR) to neoadjuvant chemotherapy.

Long-term study results show which mechanisms of early-onset puberty in adolescent girls may predispose them to a greater risk of developing breast cancer.

Study results show that among premenopausal women, adulthood second primary breast cancer may carry with it a 2-fold greater risk of death if they had undergone radiation treatment for cancer as a child or young adult.

With little research on the subject, the investigators sought out a connection between certain perinatal factors and risk of young-onset breast cancer in a sister-matched case-control study.