Heart Risks 'Acceptable' with Breast Cancer Chemo
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Some types of chemotherapy are known to be potentially damaging to the heart, but for most women with breast cancer the benefits appear to outweigh the risks, French researchers report.
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The advice made her head spin: Have the lump removed. No, let them take the whole breast. Chemo? Radiation? Everyone seemed to have an opinion.
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BOSTON Elderly women in treatment for early-stage breast cancer may safely forgo radiation therapy - which is expensive, inconvenient and often difficult - without substantially increasing the prospects for the return of the disease, researchers reported
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NEW YORK  - A woman's likelihood of surviving breast cancer is related to the survival rates among her first degree relatives with breast cancer, according to a new report.
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MONDAY, Oct. 29 (HealthDay News) -- It may be unhealthy in many other ways, but smoking does not appear to raise the odds that a woman with breast cancer will have more aggressive or later-stage malignancy at the time of diagnosis, researchers report.
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NEW YORK  - Research has shown that women who undergo chemotherapy after surgery for early-stage breast cancer have an improved chance of survival. Now, investigators have evidence that therapy can be safely delayed for up to 12 weeks - but waiting longer may adversely affect the outcome.
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NEW YORK  - As a treatment for breast cancer, radiation, even modern regimens, appears to increase the risk of cardiovascular disease, according to a report in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute for March 7.
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Two recent studies that suggested oral contraceptives reduced a woman&#39;s risk of heart disease and cancer seemed to take conventional wisdom and stand it on its head.
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NEW YORK  - Many women who've had breast  cancer or are at high risk for the disease take tamoxifen for  years. A new study now shows that long-term tamoxifen use seems  to increase the risk of stroke, although the absolute increase  in risk is small.
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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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FDA advisory panel gives the nod to its heart drug.
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WEDNESDAY, Oct. 6 (HealthDayNews) -- Women who are obese when they are diagnosed with early stage breast cancer are at greater risk of dying from the disease than patients considered normal weight, a new study finds.
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As a treatment for breast  cancer, radiation, even modern regimens, appears to increase  the risk of cardiovascular disease, according to a report in  the Journal of the National Cancer Institute for March 7.
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NEW YORK  - 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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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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Radiation treatments routinely given after surgery to remove small breast tumors may not be necessary for women over age 70 if they are taking the cancer drug tamoxifen.
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Many older women with early breast cancer can safely skip radiation after having a lump removed, two studies suggest.