Delaying Chemo After Breast Cancer Surgery Can Be Safe
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TUESDAY, Oct. 3 (HealthDay News) -- Women with early-stage breast cancer may safely wait up to 12 weeks after cancer surgery before they begin chemotherapy, a new study shows.
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When a cancerous lump is discovered in a woman&#39;s breast, a lumpectomy, or removal of the lump, may be performed, followed by radiation.
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Dec. 22, 2004 -- Having breast reconstruction after a mastectomy isn&#39;t likely to hurt a woman&#39;s chances of surviving breast cancer, a new study suggests.
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Breast cancer tends to be more  aggressive when it occurs in younger women, and doctors often  advise radical surgery. Now, however, a study shows that  breast-conserving treatment, commonly known as lumpectomy, is  safe for women younger than 40.
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Tumor cells found in the blood of  breast cancer patients up to 20 years after surgery suggest  that the body may have ways of keeping a dormant cancer in  check, U.S. researchers said on Wednesday.
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New research finds that almost half of U.S. women diagnosed with a specific form of breast cancer need not undergo the discomfort of chemotherapy.
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More breast cancer patients are being offered chemotherapy before surgery instead of afterward &#151; amid much debate about how to do it right and when it's a good option. Doctors have long known that having chemo first sometimes shrinks an advanced tumor enough that a woman can undergo smaller surgery and keep her breast.
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WEDNESDAY, Dec. 26 (HealthDay News)-- Chemotherapy drugs known as anthracyclines help boost survival for women with HER2-positive breast cancer who have undergone surgery, but they may not offer any survival benefit for those with HER2-negative tumors.
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TUESDAY, Feb. 13 (HealthDay News) -- Switching to newer breast cancer drugs, called aromatase inhibitors, after two to three years of treatment with tamoxifen may extend disease-free survival and slightly reduce the risk of death in women who've been treated for early stage disease, an international study finds.
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The addition of radiation therapy to chemotherapy after breast cancer surgery "substantially" improves survival, according to a 20-year followup analysis of a British Columbia trial.
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Drug therapy given before the  primary chemotherapy for breast cancer does not appear to  worsen mental processes, or &quot;cognitive function,&quot; German  investigators report in the journal Cancer. Suspicions that it  does may have been influenced by cases of mental decline that  occurred before treatment began.
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A technique for determining whether cancer has spread could save many patients from surgery.
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A test currently available on the market can predict which breast cancer patients are at risk for their cancer to recur, which could be a vital tool for deciding if further treatment, such as chemotherapy will be useful or safely avoided.
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THURSDAY, May 31 (HealthDay News) -- A sophisticated radiation therapy system safely allows the delivery of a higher daily dose for breast cancer patients and shortens the treatment time for women from six or seven weeks to just four, researchers say.
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Breast implants after mastectomy to treat breast cancer do not reduce the long-term survival of patients, reveals a study on the long-term effects of breast implants.
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TUESDAY, Nov. 16 (HealthDayNews) -- A group of drugs called aromatase inhibitors should be used after surgery to treat postmenopausal women with hormone-receptor-positive breast cancer, new guidelines recommend.
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TUESDAY, June 20 (HealthDay News) -- Switching the order in which treatments were administered did not improve survival for patients with aggressive inflammatory breast cancer, a new study found.