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Topic: Diagnosis (view all topics)

Tags for topic Diagnosis:

• 1cm-1.9cm
• Ductal Carcinoma In Situ
• Early-stage: Stage 0 -- DCIS (Ductal Carcinoma in Situ)
• Early-stage: Stage IA
• Early-stage: Stage IB
• Early-stage: Stage IIA
• Early-stage: Stage IIB
• Early-stage: Stage IIIA
• Estrogen Receptor Negative Cancer
• Estrogen Receptor Positive Cancer
• HER2/neu Negative Cancer
• HER2/neu Positive Cancer
• HER2 Overexpressing
• Invasive or Infiltrating Ductal Carcinoma
• Invasive or Infiltrating Lobular Carcinoma
• Less than 1cm
• Locally Advanced-stage: Stage IIIB
• Locally Advanced-stage: Stage IIIC
• Luminal A
• Luminal B
• Metastatic
• Metastatic/Advanced-stage: Stage IV
• Non-Metastatic
• Progesterone Receptor Negative Cancer
• Progesterone Receptor Positive Cancer
• Regional
• Triple Negative

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• Genomic Test Results Not Understood by Many Women

  Published on March 8, 2010 at 12:00 am

  • Tags: Progesterone Receptor Positive Cancer, Estrogen Receptor Positive Cancer, Non-Metastatic, Early-stage: Stage 0 -- DCIS (Ductal Carcinoma in Situ), Early-stage: Stage IA, Early-stage: Stage IB, Early-stage: Stage IIA, Early-stage: Stage IIB, Early-stage: Stage IIIA, MammaPrint, and Oncotype DX

  A small study found that about a third of women who had genomic testing didn't really understand the test results.

• Lymph Node Ultrasound Before Surgery Can Help Find Cancer Spread

  Published on October 6, 2009 at 12:00 am

  • Tags: Non-Metastatic, Early-stage: Stage 0 -- DCIS (Ductal Carcinoma in Situ), Early-stage: Stage IA, Early-stage: Stage IB, Early-stage: Stage IIA, Early-stage: Stage IIB, Early-stage: Stage IIIA, and Ultrasound

  Ultrasound of underarm lymph nodes can determine if cancer has spread to those lymph nodes in some cases.

• Isolated Cancer Cells in Lymph Nodes Need Treatment After Surgery

  Published on August 12, 2009 at 12:00 am

  • Tags: Non-Metastatic, Early-stage: Stage 0 -- DCIS (Ductal Carcinoma in Situ), Early-stage: Stage IA, Early-stage: Stage IB, Early-stage: Stage IIA, Early-stage: Stage IIB, Early-stage: Stage IIIA, Sentinel Lymph Node Removal/Dissection, and Lymph Node Removal

  Women diagnosed with node-negative, early-stage breast cancer -- but with isolated cancer cells in the sentinel lymph node -- were 56% less likely to survive without the breast cancer coming back in the 5 years after treatment compared to women who were truly node negative (no cancer cells at all in the sentinel lymph node). This suggests that women diagnosed with isolated cancer cells in the sentinel node should be treated as if the cancer is node-positive.

• Women Treated for Hormone-Receptor-Negative Cancers More Likely to be Diagnosed with New Cancer in Other Breast

  Published on July 10, 2009 at 12:00 am

  • Tags: Progesterone Receptor Negative Cancer, Estrogen Receptor Negative Cancer, Non-Metastatic, Early-stage: Stage 0 -- DCIS (Ductal Carcinoma in Situ), Early-stage: Stage IA, Early-stage: Stage IB, Early-stage: Stage IIA, Early-stage: Stage IIB, and Early-stage: Stage IIIA

  Research shows that women treated for hormone-receptor-negative breast cancer are more than 3 times more likely to be diagnosed with a new cancer (either hormone-receptor-positive or -negative) in the other breast compared to women treated for hormone-receptor-positive breast cancer.

• New Guidelines for Early-Stage Breast Cancer Recommend Treatment Based on Individual Cancer Characteristics

  Published on June 18, 2009 at 12:00 am

  • Tags: Non-Metastatic, Early-stage: Stage 0 -- DCIS (Ductal Carcinoma in Situ), Early-stage: Stage IA, Early-stage: Stage IB, Early-stage: Stage IIA, Early-stage: Stage IIB, Early-stage: Stage IIIA, Estrogen Receptor Negative Cancer, Estrogen Receptor Positive Cancer, HER2/neu Negative Cancer, HER2/neu Positive Cancer, Progesterone Receptor Negative Cancer, Progesterone Receptor Positive Cancer, Luminal A, Luminal B, Triple Negative, and HER2 Overexpressing

  A large group of cancer experts created new guidelines for treating early-stage breast cancer; the guidelines recommend that chemotherapy, targeted therapies, radiation therapy, and hormonal therapy should be based on the characteristics of each individual cancer being treated.

• Micrometastases in Lymph Nodes Need Treatment

  Published on June 4, 2009 at 12:00 am

  • Tags: Non-Metastatic, Early-stage: Stage 0 -- DCIS (Ductal Carcinoma in Situ), Early-stage: Stage IA, Early-stage: Stage IB, Early-stage: Stage IIA, Early-stage: Stage IIB, and Early-stage: Stage IIIA

  When small groups of breast cancer cells are found in the sentinel lymph node during surgery to remove early-stage breast cancer, they need to be treated to reduce the risk of the cancer coming back.

• New Tool Can Help Predict Recurrence Risk

  Published on September 24, 2008 at 12:00 am

  • Tags: Non-Metastatic, Progesterone Receptor Positive Cancer, Estrogen Receptor Positive Cancer, Early-stage: Stage 0 -- DCIS (Ductal Carcinoma in Situ), Early-stage: Stage IA, Early-stage: Stage IB, Early-stage: Stage IIA, Early-stage: Stage IIB, and Early-stage: Stage IIIA

  A new tool that looks at four breast cancer characteristics seems to do a good job of predicting whether early-stage hormone-receptor-positive breast cancer is likely to come back (recurrence). The tool assessed recurrence in women diagnosed with early-stage hormone-receptor-positive breast cancer that had been treated with hormonal therapy before surgery.

• MRI Before Treatment Doesn’t Improve Care or Prognosis

  Published on September 8, 2008 at 12:00 am

  • Tags: Non-Metastatic, Early-stage: Stage 0 -- DCIS (Ductal Carcinoma in Situ), Early-stage: Stage IA, Early-stage: Stage IB, Early-stage: Stage IIA, Early-stage: Stage IIB, Early-stage: Stage IIIA, and Breast MRI

  Routinely doing MRI after diagnosis and before surgery may lead to more mastectomy recommendations vs. lumpectomy recommendations with no improvement in care or outcome.

• Breast Cancer Detected by MRI More Likely to be Treated with Mastectomy

  Published on May 16, 2008 at 12:00 am

  • Tags: Non-Metastatic, Early-stage: Stage 0 -- DCIS (Ductal Carcinoma in Situ), Early-stage: Stage IA, Early-stage: Stage IB, Early-stage: Stage IIA, Early-stage: Stage IIB, Early-stage: Stage IIIA, Breast MRI, and Mammography

  When breast cancer is diagnosed by MRI, women are more likely to have a mastectomy than a lumpectomy followed by radiation therapy.

• DCIS Recurrence Risk Overestimated by Many Women

  Published on February 12, 2008 at 12:00 am

  • Tags: Ductal Carcinoma In Situ, Non-Metastatic, Early-stage: Stage 0 -- DCIS (Ductal Carcinoma in Situ), and Personal History of Breast Cancer

  Many women overestimate the risk of DCIS coming back.