June 2005 Research News
Can Statins Reduce Breast Cancer Risk?
If you are interested in the connection between the risk of breast cancer and use of statins—drugs commonly used to lower cholesterol—you might want to read this article. Read more…
If you have had surgery and have early stage, lymph node-positive, HER2-positive breast cancer, you might want to read this. Read more…
Low-Fat Diet May Reduce Risk of Recurrence
If you're a post-menopausal woman and have breast cancer and want to learn about how your diet may influence the risk of the cancer coming back, you might want to read this article. Read more…
Avastin Combined with Taxol Slows Advanced Breast Cancer
If you have advanced (metastatic) breast cancer and have not yet had chemotherapy for your advanced disease, you might want to read this article. (If you had chemotherapy for early-stage disease and now have advanced breast cancer, then this article is for you too.) Read more…
Studies of Bone Health and Breast Cancer
If you are taking an aromatase inhibitor or another drug that shuts down the ovaries' production of estrogen and are concerned about bone loss, you might want to read this article. Read more…
Computer Program Can Help You Decide Which Hormonal Therapy to Take
If you have estrogen-receptor-positive breast cancer and want to know how that status might influence your treatment choices, you might want to read this article. Read more…
If you want to know if the long-term benefits of chemotherapy or tamoxifen are worth the side effects, you might want to read this article. Read more…
Herceptin After Chemo Reduces Recurrence in Women with Early-Stage, HER2-Positive Breast Cancer
If your doctor has told you that you have early-stage, HER2-positive breast cancer and will need chemotherapy after surgery, you might want to read this article. Read more…