Speedier Look at Advanced Breast Cancer
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Aug. 18, 2004 - The number of tumor cells in the blood of women with advanced-stage breast cancer predicts the success of their treatment, according to a new study in The New England Journal of Medicine.
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Doctors researching breast cancer say a new drug has had "exciting" results.
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WASHINGTON -- Women with an aggressive form of advanced breast cancer that other treatments have failed to stop gained a new option yesterday with the approval of a novel drug -- but how much benefit it offers is unclear.
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Scientists believe they have found a way to spot which breast and ovarian cancers are most likely to be fatal.
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Mammograms have become a rite of passage for 40-year-old American women, and a compulsory exercise for those over 40. But as rote as those annual screenings might seem, there's nothing routine about a diagnosis of breast cancer.
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Women diagnosed with breast cancer should be given a new drug instead of the standard treatment because it is safer, more effective and may increase overall survival rates, doctors have suggested.
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Digital mammography was much better than traditional film mammography at spotting breast cancers in younger women or those with dense breasts, U.S. researchers said on Tuesday.
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Mammograms are not as effective at detecting potentially life-threatening breast cancers in thin women, those taking hormone replacement therapy (HRT) and those who have had previous breast surgery as they are in other women, scientists reveal today.
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A new way to accurately predict how individual breast cancer patients will react to the anticancer drug trastuzumab (Herceptin) has been identified by researchers at the Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, in Houston.
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A new type of breast cancer drug is  superior to the old standard, tamoxifen, in older women and  should now be the first drug used to treat the cancer, U.S. and  British researchers said on Wednesday.
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Dark-field x-ray imaging could make for more-accurate mammograms and better security screens.
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An experimental ultrasound technique that measures how easily breast lumps compress and bounce back could enable doctors to determine instantly whether a woman has cancer or not without doing a biopsy.
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Description: Researchers meeting in San Antonio are reporting promising results about a new genetic test that can predict which breast cancer patients will benefit from chemotherapy.
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TORONTO - Magnetic resonance imaging may be better at finding breast cancer in women who are genetically predisposed to the disease than other screening methods, Canadian researchers say.
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MRI scans are far better than  mammograms at spotting a type of precancerous growth before it  becomes invasive breast cancer, a German researcher said on  Sunday.
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A new technology that counts cancer cells in the blood helps predict the success of breast cancer treatments more quickly and more reliably than established methods, researchers reported yesterday.
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A drug currently used against advanced breast cancer may provide better protection against recurrence or spreading than standard medication for post-menopausal women who have been treated for early forms of the disease, Swiss pharmaceutical giant Novartis AG and independent researchers said Wednesday.