Research News for 2013
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False Positive Mammogram Results Can Cause Long-Term Stress
A study has found that the negative effects of a getting a false positive mammogram result linger for at least 3 years after women learned they didn’t have breast cancer.
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Abnormal BRCA1 Gene Linked to Worse Outcomes Than Abnormal BRCA2 Gene
A study suggests women with an abnormal BRCA1 gene have worse breast cancer survival and recurrence rates than women with an abnormal BRCA2 gene or women who don’t have either abnormal gene.
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Nearly Half of Diagnosed Women at High Risk for Abnormal BRCA Genes Not Sent for Testing
A study suggests that about half of newly diagnosed women at high risk for an abnormal breast cancer gene don’t get a genetic testing recommendation from their doctors.
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Study Suggests Some Women May Be Able to Get Mammograms Every Other Year
A new study suggests that women age 50 to 74 have the same risk of being diagnosed with advanced-stage breast cancer whether they have a mammogram every year or every other year. But women age 40 to 49 with very dense breasts were more likely to be diagnosed with advanced-stage disease if they had mammograms every other year instead of every year.
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Older Women Who Don’t Get Regular Mammograms Have a Higher Risk of Dying from Breast Cancer
A study found that women 75 and older who didn’t get regular mammograms had a higher risk of dying from breast cancer.
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Taxol Plus Tykerb Better Than Taxol Alone to Treat HER2-Positive, Metastatic Disease
The combination of Taxol and Tykerb offers more benefits in treating newly diagnosed metastatic, HER2-positive breast cancer than Taxol alone.
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Healthy Heart Lifestyle Reduces Cancer Risk
People who follow the American Heart Association’s heart health guidelines have a 51% lower risk of developing cancer than people who don’t follow those guidelines.
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Combination Hormone Replacement Therapy Linked to Higher Breast Cancer Risk in New WHI Analysis
A longer-term analysis of information collected in the Women’s Health Initiative study has found that using combination HRT is linked to a higher risk of breast cancer.
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Study Suggests Full-Fat Dairy Products May Be Linked to Worse Survival
A study suggests that women diagnosed with early-stage breast cancer who eat full-fat dairy products after diagnosis are more likely to die from breast cancer than women who eat low-fat dairy products after diagnosis.
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FDA Approves Lymphoseek to Help Find Lymph Nodes in People with Certain Cancers, Including Breast Cancer
The FDA has approved a medicine called Lymphoseek to help doctors find and map lymph nodes in people diagnosed with breast cancer and melanoma.
