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News tagged ‘BreastCancer’ clear

  • A New England Journal of Medicine study found breast cancer patients treated with radiation face an increased risk of heart disease. Dr. Eric Winer said radiation therapy is safe, and patients should not avoid the potentially lifesaving treatment.

Tags: BreastCancer, Radiation

  • Although some breast cancer activists are losing patience that a cure has not been found, Dr. Ann Partridge says there have been many advances in breast cancer research and care, including the identification of several breast cancer subtypes, which require treatments to be tailor to each patient.

Tags: BreastCancer

  • Dana-Farber patient Peter Devereaux and his oncologist, Kathryn Ruddy, MD, MPH, were featured in a story on NBC.com about male breast cancer. Devereaux is one of several marines who developed breast cancer after serving in Camp Lejeune in North Carolina.

Tags: BreastCancer

  • Dr. Gabriel Brooks commented on a new study showing Medicare spending for patients with advanced cancer is not linked to differences in survival.

Tags: BreastCancer, ColonCancer, LungCancer, PancreaticCancer, ProstateCancer, Survivorship

  • Dr. Andrea Richardson and colleagues have identified a genetic marker that may predict which aggressive "triple negative" breast cancers and certain ovarian cancers will likely respond to platinum-based chemotherapies.

Tags: BreastCancer, Genomics, OvarianCancer, GynecologicCancers

  • Extending tamoxifen treatment to 10 years significantly improved a women's chances of surviving breast cancer and reduced the risk of the cancer coming back, a new study shows. Dr. Eric Winer said while only about 10 percent of women in the study were premenopausal, the benefits were similar to those for women after menopause, indicating that a new long-term strategy is now an option for them. (Full article requires a subscription)

Tags: BreastCancer, Hormones, Prevention

  • Dr. Eric Winer comments on the FDA's recent approval of the breast cancer drug Kadcyla. He says clinical trials show that the drug is both highly effective and has few side effects.

Tags: BreastCancer

  • Several studies published in Nature have identified 74 new genetic risk factors associated with three major cancers: breast, ovarian, and prostate. Dr. Philip Kantoff said it is unclear what this means for patients clinically, but the hope is that it will lead to more sophisticated screening and treatment strategies.

Tags: BasicResearch, BreastCancer, OvarianCancer, ProstateCancer, Genetics, GynecologicCancers

  • Dr. Javid Moslehi wrote in an editorial that cardiac risk factors should be assessed when a breast cancer patient starts radiation treatment and continued throughout survivorship.

Tags: BreastCancer, Radiation

  • Judy Garber, MD, MPH, discussed the potential clinical implications of the findings from a study from The Cancer Genome Atlas that identified four genetically distinct types of breast cancer.

Tags: BreastCancer, Genomics

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