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• Digital Tomosynthesis Plus Mammography Improves Detection and Decreases False Positives

  Published on January 17, 2013 at 6:33 am

  • Topic: Screening and Testing
  • Tags: Digital Tomosynthesis and Mammography

  Combining digital tomosynthesis with conventional digital mammography improves detection of invasive breast cancer by 40% and decreases false-positives by 15%.

• Ultrasound Plus Mammogram Recommended for Women with Dense Breasts

  Published on January 14, 2013 at 6:13 am

  • Topic: Risk Factors and Screening and Testing
  • Tags: Dense Breasts, Mammography, and Ultrasound

  Cancer screening for most women with dense breasts should include ultrasound and mammogram, according to new guidelines.

• Women Taking Statins Have Fewer Heart Problems During Anthracycline Chemotherapy

  Published on January 14, 2013 at 5:59 am

  • Topic: Chemotherapy and Side Effects
  • Tags: Anthracyclines, Standard, Adriamycin (chemical name: doxorubicin), Doxil (chemical name: doxorubicin), Ellence (chemical name: epirubicin), and Heart problems

  A study found that women who were taking a statin during and after being treated for breast cancer with anthracycline chemotherapy had fewer heart problems than women who weren’t taking a statin.

• Fear Pushes Many Women to Choose Double Mastectomy

  Published on January 14, 2013 at 5:46 am

  • Topic: Planning Your Treatment and Surgery
  • Tags: Mastectomy, Prophylactic Mastectomy, and Planning Surgery

  Fear, not actual risk, drives many women to have double mastectomy.

• African American Women Have Lower Breast Cancer Survival Rates Than White Women

  Published on January 14, 2013 at 5:26 am

  • Topic: Risk Factors and Screening and Testing
  • Tags: Mammography

  A large CDC study has found that African American women continue to have lower breast cancer survival rates than white women.

• Older Women Commonly Treated with Chemotherapy Medicines Used “Off-Label”

  Published on January 11, 2013 at 4:33 am

  • Topic: Chemotherapy
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  A study found that 19% of chemotherapy medicines given to women 65 and older were used off-label.

• Lower Dose of Radiation Therapy Just as Good as Current Regimen for Early-Stage Breast Cancer

  Published on January 8, 2013 at 8:51 am

  • Topic: Radiation Therapy
  • Tags: Low-Dose, Breast, After surgery, and External

  A study compared the standard radiation therapy schedule to shorter, lower-dose radiation schedules and found that the risk of early-stage breast cancer coming back (recurrence) was about the same for all the schedules. The lower-dose schedules also had fewer effects on healthy breast tissue.

• MarginProbe System Approved by FDA

  Published on January 7, 2013 at 6:08 am

  • Topic: Screening and Testing
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  On Jan. 2, 2013, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the MarginProbe System – a device that helps surgeons decide if all the cancer tissue has been removed during lumpectomy.

• Vitamin D Levels May Be Reason Some Women Benefit from Zometa Added to Chemo

  Published on January 7, 2013 at 5:40 am

  • Topic: Bone Health
  • Tags: Zometa and Adjuvant

  New results from a large study suggest that postmenopausal women diagnosed with early-stage breast cancer who had adequate vitamin D levels got more benefits from Zometa combined with chemotherapy than women who had low vitamin D levels.

• Art Therapy and Meditation Can Ease Stress in Women Diagnosed with Breast Cancer

  Published on December 22, 2012 at 9:58 am

  • Topic: Complementary and Holistic Therapies
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  A small study found that art therapy combined with meditation helped ease stress in women diagnosed with breast cancer.