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Quality Personal Relationships Boost Survival in Women Diagnosed with Early-Stage Breast Cancer
A study suggests that the quality of a woman’s social networks seems to be just as important as the size of the social networks in predicting breast cancer survival.
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Mammostrat Test Helps Estimate Recurrence Risk and Make Treatment Decisions
A study shows that the Mammostrat test can offer more information on the risk of early-stage, hormone-receptor-positive breast cancer coming back in postmenopausal women and help make treatment decisions.
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Study Analyzes Breast Cancer Genetics, Finds Four Classes of Disease
Researchers have done the most thorough analysis of breast cancer genetics to date and found that there are four genetically distinct classes of the disease.
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FDA Advisory Panel Approves MarginProbe System
An FDA expert panel voted to approve the MarginProbe system - a device that helps surgeons decide if all the cancer tissue has been removed during lumpectomy.
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Women Older Than 65 Have Worse Outcomes After Breast Cancer Diagnosis
A large study has found that women older than 65 diagnosed with early-stage, hormone-receptor-positive breast cancer had worse outcomes than younger women with similar diagnoses.
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Breast Cancer Cells in Sentinel Lymph Node Don’t Affect Survival
Research strongly suggests that occult metastases in the sentinel lymph node of women diagnosed with early-stage breast cancer don't affect survival.
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Older Women Diagnosed with DCIS or Early-Stage Disease Have Excellent Prognosis
A large study found that women older than 67 diagnosed with either DCIS or stage I breast cancer were just as likely to be alive 10 years after diagnosis as women not diagnosed with breast cancer.
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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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Link Between Obesity and Worse Prognosis Isn’t Consistent
The analysis of several studies show the link between obesity and worse prognosis in women diagnosed with early-stage breast cancer isn't consistent.
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Breast Cancer Survival Triples in Last 60 Years
During the past 60 years, the average number of women who survived for 10 years after being diagnosed with breast cancer and treated at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center tripled.
