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• Older Women Who Don’t Get Regular Mammograms Have a Higher Risk of Dying from Breast Cancer

  Published on April 10, 2013 at 4:18 am

  • Topic: Screening and Testing
  • Tags: Mammography

  A study found that women 75 and older who didn’t get regular mammograms had a higher risk of dying from breast cancer.

• Taxol Plus Tykerb Better Than Taxol Alone to Treat HER2-Positive, Metastatic Disease

  Published on April 8, 2013 at 9:51 am

  • Topic: Targeted Therapies and Chemotherapy
  • Tags: Taxol (chemical name: paclitaxel) and Tykerb

  The combination of Taxol and Tykerb offers more benefits in treating newly diagnosed metastatic, HER2-positive breast cancer than Taxol alone.

• Healthy Heart Lifestyle Reduces Cancer Risk

  Published on April 8, 2013 at 9:31 am

  • Topic: Risk Factors
  • Tags: Diet, Exercise, Obesity, and Smoking

  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.

• Combination Hormone Replacement Therapy Linked to Higher Breast Cancer Risk in New WHI Analysis

  Published on April 3, 2013 at 5:42 am

  • Topic: Risk Factors
  • Tags: Hormone Replacement Therapy

  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.

• Study Suggests Full-Fat Dairy Products May Be Linked to Worse Survival

  Published on March 27, 2013 at 4:53 am

  • Topic: Risk Factors and Day-to-Day Matters
  • Tags: Nutrition and Diet

  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.

• FDA Approves Lymphoseek to Help Find Lymph Nodes in People with Certain Cancers, Including Breast Cancer

  Published on March 18, 2013 at 5:48 am

  • Topic: Surgery
  • Tags: Sentinel Lymph Node Removal/Dissection and Lymph Node Removal

  The FDA has approved a medicine called Lymphoseek to help doctors find and map lymph nodes in people diagnosed with breast cancer and melanoma.

• Radiation to Treat Breast Cancer Linked to Future Heart Problems

  Published on March 17, 2013 at 5:19 am

  • Topic: Radiation Therapy
  • Tags: Standard (most typical), Breast, After surgery, and External

  A study looking at women diagnosed with breast cancer who were treated with radiation therapy between 1958 and 2001 found these women had a higher risk of heart problems later in life.

• Many Women Newly Diagnosed with Breast Cancer Have PTSD Symptoms

  Published on March 13, 2013 at 6:12 am

  • Topic: Day-to-Day Matters and Side Effects
  • Tags: Dealing with Cancer Fear

  A study has found that about 23% of women newly diagnosed with breast cancer had PTSD symptoms.

• Smoking Linked to Higher Risk of Breast Cancer

  Published on March 13, 2013 at 5:51 am

  • Topic: Risk Factors
  • Tags: Smoking

  A large study has found that smoking increases breast cancer risk in women, especially women who start smoking before they have their first child.

• Both Round and Shaped Silicone Gel Implants Offer Good Results in Breast Reconstruction

  Published on March 13, 2013 at 5:37 am

  • Topic: Reconstruction
  • Tags: Breast implants, Mastectomy, and Prophylactic Mastectomy

  A study has found that both round and teardrop-shaped silicone gel implants offer similar good results for breast reconstruction.