Study evaluates biopsies, spread of breast cancer
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Removing only one to three key lymph nodes instead of the usual dozen or more can spare women lifelong arm problems and reliably indicate whether breast cancer has spread
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A new national clinical trial will investigate genetic and environmental causes of breast cancer by enrolling 50,000 sisters of women already diagnosed with the disease.
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Extra copies of a certain gene found  in about a third of breast cancers may be responsible for their  unchecked growth and survival, researchers reported on  Thursday.
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Study of aromatase inhibitors indicate they could reduce the chances that many breast cancer patients will develop a new cancer in the other breast or have the cancer spread elsewhere.
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Scientists in Oxford say they have a new method of identifying people most at risk of breast cancer.
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WEDNESDAY, Jan. 5 (HealthDayNews) -- Women whose breast cancer is detected by physical examination are about three times more likely to receive chemotherapy than women whose breast cancer is detected by mammography, a Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center study finds.
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A new national clinical trial will probe genetic and environmental causes of breast cancer by studying 50,000 sisters of women already diagnosed with the disease that is the second-leading cancer killer of women.
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Scientists in the United States are developing a screening test for breast cancer that checks a woman's saliva for evidence of the disease to help find tumors early, when they are most treatable.
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Scientists have identified a way of tackling hard-to-treat breast cancers.
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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 &#151; without having to do a biopsy.
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NEW APPROACH: A study says that removing just one to three key lymph nodes can spare women lifelong arm problems and reliably indicate whether breast cancer has spread.
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A new national study will investigate genetic and environmental causes of breast cancer by enrolling 50,000 sisters of women already diagnosed with the disease.
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The results of studies released today show a new blood test holds promise for improving the treatment of advanced breast cancer.
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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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A new study under way at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston and at five other cancer centers in the United States will examine outcome, satisfaction with cancer
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Women with a high genetic risk for  breast cancer run a better chance of having it detected with  magnetic resonance imaging than with mammography and other  methods, researchers said on Tuesday.
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Some women with breast cancer are less likely to have their tumours picked up by scans, say experts.