Sentences with phrase «advanced stages of breast cancer»

Compared with non-Hispanic whites, women of all other racial and ethnic groups were more likely to be diagnosed with more advanced stages of breast cancer, the researchers found.

Not exact matches

While one drug, MEK inhibitor, is usually used in advanced - stage melanoma, the other drug, CDK4 / 6 inhibitor, palbociclib, is currently FDA - approved for treatment of Estrogen Receptor - positive breast cancer patients.

Extending national breast cancer screening programs to women over the age of 70 does not result in a decrease in the numbers of cancers detected at advanced stages, according to new research from The Netherlands.

Dr Gerrit - Jan Liefers (MD, PhD), a surgical oncologist and head of the geriatric oncology research group at Leiden University Medical Centre (Leiden, The Netherlands), said: «For a screening program to be effective, one would expect that the incidence of early stage breast cancer would increase while the incidence of advanced stage cancer would decrease because any cancer would have been detected at an earlier stage.

Therefore, screening could result in over-treatment and consequently in decreased quality of life and ability to function in older breast cancer patients, without lowering the incidence of advanced stage breast cancer or deaths from the disease,» he said.

«We are evaluating patient and disease factors that affect the value of FDG PET / CT for systemic staging of locally advanced breast cancer,» said study coauthor Molly Parsons.

Dr. Narod, who is also a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Breast Cancer, recommends that doctors should consider adopting a standard model of care for all women diagnosed with advanced - stage ovarian cCancer, recommends that doctors should consider adopting a standard model of care for all women diagnosed with advanced - stage ovarian cancercancer:

The stages of cancer describe how advanced the cancer is Stage zero breast cancer is the earliest form of breast cancer, and the easiest to treat.

In many countries with advanced medical care, the five - year survival rate of early stage breast cancers is 80 — 90 per cent, falling to 24 per cent for breast cancers diagnosed at a more advanced stage.

But the number of women surviving this advanced stage of the disease is rising: A study published this month in Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention found that the five - year survival rate for women initially diagnosed with metastatic breast cancer doubled from 18 % in the early 1990s to 36 % in the last decade Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention found that the five - year survival rate for women initially diagnosed with metastatic breast cancer doubled from 18 % in the early 1990s to 36 % in the last decade cancer doubled from 18 % in the early 1990s to 36 % in the last decade or so.