These days, more and more women are getting scans of their heads, necks, and chests to diagnose other health problems, and those highly detailed images are revealing small cancers in the thyroid that would have otherwise gone unnoticed. (health.com)
For the new study, described in the October 23rd issue of Nature Communications, scientists at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center and Dana Farber Cancer Institute in Boston collected tissue samples containing normal cells, ovarian cancers, metastases that had spread elsewhere, and small cancers found in the fallopian tubes, which included single cell layers of cancer called «p53 signatures» and serous tubal intraepithelial carcinoma, or STIC lesions. (sciencedaily.com)
But as fewer and fewer women were diagnosed with large breast tumors, pre-op chemo began to be used in patients with smaller cancers, too, in the hope that it would extend survival. (statnews.com)