Test Shows Who Needs Extra Breast Cancer Treatment
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A new genetic test can tell doctors  which breast cancer patients need to undergo the discomfort of  chemotherapy -- and suggests many women don't need to,  researchers said on Friday.
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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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American Cancer Society - The US Food and Drug Administration has approved MammaPrint, a new genetic test that can help predict whether a woman's early stage breast  cancer is likely to come back after initial treatment. The test is one of several that could help breast cancer patients and their doctors make decisions about how aggressively to treat the disease.
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A genetic test that grades breast- cancer aggressiveness also identifies low-risk women who don&#39;t need chemotherapy, potentially sparing 50,000 each year from a toxic treatment that doesn&#39;t help them, researchers said.
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U.S. health officials approved a  genetic test on Tuesday that can provide women with early  breast cancer an estimate of whether the disease is likely to  return in five to 10 years.
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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 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.
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A genetic test for patients with  early breast cancer can identify that only some of them will be  helped by chemotherapy, but for those women the benefits far  outweigh the drawbacks, researchers said on Friday.
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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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A simple blood test could tell doctors which women with breast cancer need more aggressive treatment, scientists believe. Women with five or more tumour cells in their blood sample would have aggressive disease needing more treatment.
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A new test invented by a Redwood City medical laboratory can accurately predict which women are likely to have a recurrence of breast cancer and whether they need to undergo debilitating chemotherapy to avoid it.
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BEIJING, Aug.20(Xinhuanet) -- Scientists say the effectiveness of therapy for advanced breast cancer can be quickly predicted by an analysis of the level of cancer cells in the patient&#39;s blood.
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Scientists identify four more genes that increase breast cancer risk which could result in better tests.
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The treatment that more cancer patients receive may one day depend on their genes
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New findings add to the evidence that genetic tests can help predict whether breast cancer will recur, giving valuable guidance to doctors and patients about whether potentially toxic chemotherapy
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A woman twice told she was in the clear after cancer tests is among hundreds of cases under review.
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U.S. health officials approved a genetic test on Tuesday that can give women with early breast cancer an estimate of whether the disease is likely to return in five to 10 years.