Research News on Planning Your Treatment
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Insurance Influences Type of Surgery Women Get for Early-Stage Breast Cancer
The type of insurance a woman has affects what type of surgery she has to treat early-stage breast cancer.
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Study Suggests Lack of Vitamin D Production During Winter Months May Make Tamoxifen Less Effective
A study by Canadian researchers suggests that lower vitamin D levels during winter months may interfere with tamoxifen’s effectiveness.
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Young Women Should Have Surgery Within 6 Weeks Of Diagnosis
A study has found that young women who wait longer than 6 weeks to have breast cancer surgery have worse survival than young women who have surgery earlier.
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Research Suggests Lumpectomy Plus Radiation Leads to Better Survival for Early-Stage Breast Cancer but Questions Remain
A study suggests that in the real world, women diagnosed with stage I or stage II breast cancer who have lumpectomy followed by radiation have better survival rates than women who have mastectomy.
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Fear Pushes Many Women to Choose Double Mastectomy
Fear, not actual risk, drives many women to have double mastectomy.
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MRI Before Surgery Doesn’t Reduce Need for More Surgery Later On
A study suggests that having an MRI before initial breast cancer surgery doesn’t reduce the likelihood that a woman would need more breast cancer surgery later.
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Genetic Counseling Before Surgery Can Lower Stress and Help Women Make Decisions
A small study has found that women diagnosed with breast cancer who are offered genetic counseling before breast cancer surgery have less stress and make more informed decisions about treatment compared to women who don’t get genetic counseling before surgery.
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Combination of Arimidex and Faslodex Better Than Arimidex Alone to Treat Metastatic Breast Cancer
A study has found that postmenopausal women diagnosed with hormone-receptor-positive metastatic breast cancer and treated with a combination of Arimidex and Faslodex as the first treatment for metastatic disease lived about 6 months longer than women treated only with Arimidex.
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Survey Says Women Want to See Reconstruction Results Before Breast Cancer Surgery
Survey results reveal that 89% of U.S. women diagnosed with breast cancer want to see what reconstruction results would look like before starting treatment.
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About 20% of Women Need More Surgery After Lumpectomy
A British study has found that about 20% of women who have lumpectomy have to have more surgery once their doctors have all the information about the cancer and breast tissue that was removed.
