Breast-Conservation May Be OK for Inherited Cancers
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NEW YORK  - Breast-conserving therapy  (BCT), which involves limited surgery and radiation, is a  suitable option for young women with BRCA-associated breast  cancer, the most common hereditary type of the disease, new  research suggests. This is because the risk of cancer returning  in the same breast after treatment is relatively low.
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THURSDAY, June 28 (HealthDay News) -- Women can look to their mothers and sisters to help determine their chances of survival from breast cancer, new research suggests.
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Women in Britain with breast cancer will soon benefit from a pioneering surgical technique developed by Professor Robert Mansel and his team at Cardiff University, Wales College of Medicine in the UK.
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TUESDAY, June 19 (HealthDay News) -- Current methods of gauging a woman&#39;s  breast cancer risk that rely on her family history may often underestimate the danger, a new study suggests.
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Even distant relatives of cancer victims have a higher than average chance of suffering the disease themselves, researchers said. A study based in Iceland, where scientists have access to unique family tree
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NEW YORK  - The innate capacity to repair  damaged DNA seems to affect a woman's chance of developing  breast cancer. Deficient DNA repair appears to triple the risk  of breast cancer, researchers have found.
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British women who have had breast cancer can now have a new treatment which has been found to prevent the disease returning and to prolong survival.
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A new study finds that, for some women, a mammogram may not be the best way to detect early breast cancer. Researchers say women who have the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genetic mutations run a better chance of having
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Postmenopausal women with early breast cancer who take tamoxifen for five years appear to have a 30 percent lower risk of dying from coronary heart disease than
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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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Thousands of breast cancer patients each year could be spared chemotherapy or get gentler versions of it without harming their odds of beating the disease, new research suggests.
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Women who develop breast cancer because  they carry one of three defective genes are no less likely to  survive over the long term than other breast cancer patients,  Canadian and Israeli researchers said on Wednesday.
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Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is more accurate than mammography, ultrasound or clinical examination in detecting breast cancer in women with a hereditary risk for the disease, a study has found.
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Close relatives of cancer patients are often at substantially higher risk than the population at large of developing cancer themselves, a study of 32,000 cancer patients over nearly 50 years has revealed.
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Gene mutations linked to breast cancer may pose less danger than previously believed, a new study shows.
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LONDON  - British parents with inherited forms of cancer have won the right to select embryos free from genes that might trigger the disease in future generations, The Times reported.
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PHILADELPHIA - Doctors are reporting two advances that may give women with cancer safer ways to preserve their ability to have children without compromising their chances of beating the disease.