Research News for January 2011
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Experimental Iniparib Increases Survival Only Slightly in Metastatic Triple-Negative Disease
A large study found that iniparib didn't improve survival in women diagnosed with metastatic triple-negative breast cancer, which contradicts results from earlier studies.
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Waiting 5 Years to Start Hormone Replacement Therapy Offers Less Risk
New research suggests that breast cancer risk is higher in women who use HRT during the first 5 years after menopause starts compared to women who wait more than 5 years to start HRT.
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FDA Reports Possible Link Between Breast Implants and Rare Lymphoma
The FDA has reported a possible link between breast implants and a very rare form of lymphoma in tissue near the implant.
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Long-Term Smoking Increases Breast Cancer Risk
A very large study found that women who started smoking heavily at an early age and smoked for a long time had a 25% higher risk of breast cancer.
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Hormonal Therapy for Breast Cancer May Boost Lung Cancer Survival
A large study found that women treated with hormonal therapy for breast cancer were 87% less likely to die from lung cancer compared to the average person's risk of dying from lung cancer.
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Some Women May Benefit from Surgery to Remove Breast Cancer That Has Spread to Liver
A small study suggests that some women can benefit from surgery to remove breast cancer that has spread to the liver.
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Single Cancer Cells in Sentinel Node Don’t Affect Prognosis
A large study suggests that women diagnosed with early-stage breast cancer who have occult metastases in a clinically negative sentinel node do almost as well as women without occult metastases.
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Government Experts Release New Osteoporosis Screening Guidelines
The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force has released new guidelines that call for more women to be screened for osteoporosis.
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Genentech Asks FDA for Full Hearing on Avastin
Genentech, the company that makes Avastin, has asked for a full FDA hearing to again present currently available research on Avastin and to review plans for future research.
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Breast Cancer Radiation Therapy Decades Ago Increases Risk of Fatal Heart Problems
Research suggests that women diagnosed with early-stage breast cancer decades ago who got radiation therapy are more likely to die from heart problems later in life compared to women who didn't get radiation therapy.
