Sentences with phrase «classified as breast cancer»

Ms. Burt chose the Valley breast surgery team after carefully researching her treatment options for DCIS (ductal carcinoma in situ), a diagnosis that is often debated among clinicians as to whether it should be classified as breast cancer at all.

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About 15 to 20 % of breast cancers are classified as «triple negative,» so called because these tumors do not express three key proteins that are biomarkers and / or drug targets for breast cancer: the estrogen receptor, the progesterone receptor, and HER2 (a member of the epidermal growth factor receptor family).

Tumors were evaluated by a pathologist at the microscopic level to classify them as either classic or pleomorphic lobular breast cancer.

Given those findings, the researchers say, about 46 percent of women with breast cancer who are classified as high risk based on clinical factors might not need chemo.

Breast cancers are classified as ER - positive or ER - negative according to whether tumors are found to contain estrogen receptors.

Now, all breast cancers are classified as estrogen - receptor positive or negative, an important guide to prognosis and therapy, and medications, such as tamoxifen, that can block the effects of estrogen have become important tools in the treatment and possible prevention of breast cancer.

After adjusting for common factors that influence breast cancer risk, Henderson and colleagues found that women whose mammograms were classified as false - positive who were referred for additional imaging had a 39 percent increased chance of developing subsequent breast cancer during the 10 - year follow - up period, compared with women with a true - negative result.

Women whose mammograms were classified as false - positive but were referred for a breast biopsy had a 76 percent increased chance of developing subsequent breast cancer compared with women with a true - negative result.

Thyroid, lung and breast cancers can be classified as indolent, as can many cases of prostate cancer.

Approximately 70 percent of breast cancers are classified as estrogen receptor - positive — where the cancer is fueled by the hormone estrogen.

At one time, there was concern that flaxseed's lignans, classified as phytoestrogens could raise the risk of breast cancers that are fueled by high levels of estrogen.