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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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• 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.

• Even with New Treatments, No Improvement in Metastatic Breast Cancer Survival

  Published on September 9, 2008 at 12:00 am

  • Tags: Metastatic, Metastatic/Advanced-stage: Stage IV, Estrogen Receptor Negative Cancer, Estrogen Receptor Positive Cancer, Progesterone Receptor Negative Cancer, and Progesterone Receptor Positive Cancer

  A new study finds the average survival time after a diagnosis of metastatic breast cancer hasn't changed much since 1985.

• 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.

• Malignant Stem Cells Seem to Make HER2-Positive Cancers Grow

  Published on July 14, 2008 at 12:00 am

  • Tags: HER2/neu Positive Cancer, Herceptin, and Adjuvant

  HER2-positive breast cancers seem to have a large number of abnormal stem cells, which make the cancers grow and spread.

• Research Finds Common Genes in Breast Cancer in Younger Women

  Published on July 9, 2008 at 12:00 am

  • Tags:

  Breast cancers diagnosed in younger women seem to have a large group of genes in common.

• 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.

• Small Number of Breast Cancers May Double in Size in 30 Days

  Published on May 8, 2008 at 12:00 am

  • Tags: Breast Physical Exam, Breast Self-Exam, and Mammography

  About 5% of breast cancers may double in size in just 1 month and these rapidly growing cancers are more likely to be found in younger women.

• Breast Cancer Diagnoses Down, But Only in White Women

  Published on April 16, 2008 at 12:00 am

  • Tags: Hormone Replacement Therapy

  Between 2000 and 20004, the rate of breast cancer diagnoses in white women went down, but this lower rate of diagnoses didn't happen in other ethnic groups.

• Mouse Study Finds Gene That Signals Breast Cancer to Grow and Spread

  Published on March 12, 2008 at 12:00 am

  • Tags: Genetics (including BRCA)

  Researchers have found a gene in mice that appears to trigger the spread of mouse breast cancer cells.

• Women More Likely to Die from Cause Other Than Breast Cancer

  Published on February 12, 2008 at 12:00 am

  • Tags: 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

  Older women with hormone-receptor-positive early breast cancer are more likely to die from something other than breast cancer.