Sentences with phrase «first diagnosis of breast cancer»

Twenty - one years after my first diagnosis of breast cancer, the uninvited guest knocked at my door - a new and different cellular challenge.

Not exact matches

The discovery that the identification and biopsy of the first lymph node to which a cancer spreads (the sentinel node) can lead to more accurate diagnosis and treatment has revolutionised the management of breast cancer.

This may be because, at the referral center studied, there is a dedicated program that provides support and counselling, focusing mostly on breast cancer patients within the first year of cancer diagnosis.

The analysis of treatment costs in the first year after a breast cancer diagnosis included 955 women with these tumors who were under age 45 as well as 134,427 similar women who weren't diagnosed with breast malignancies.

Their method, described in BMC Medical Genomics (http://bmcmedgenomics.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12920-016-0178-5), was first applied to 102 individuals at risk or with a diagnosis of inherited breast cancer.

Factors examined as potential confounders or effect modifiers included age (at breast cancer diagnosis for cases, at time of study enrollment for controls), age at first birth, number of children, birth of a son, history of breastfeeding, miscarriage, abortion, oral contraceptive use, smoking status, age at menarche and number of cell equivalents tested for detection of FMc.

• HT and early diagnosis of breast cancer: If you have no family history of the disease, youve probably been encouraged to get your first mammogram by age 40 and every one to two years after that to help ensure that any tumor is caught early, when its most treatable.

Charges for Treatment (s) of the following Illness (es) or Surgery (ies), which Manifest (ed) themselves or are recommended, or symptoms occur during the first one hundred and eighty (180) days of Coverage hereunder beginning on the initial Effective Date: any condition of the breast; any Treatment of all forms of cancer / neoplasm; any condition of the prostate; disorders of the reproductive system; hysterectomy; gall stones or urologic stones (kidney, ureteral, bladder or urethral stones) and any associated complications; any acne diagnosis or acne related condition; asthma; allergies; tonsillectomy; back conditions; adenoidectomy; hemorrhoids; hemorrhoidectomy; hernia, or any Surgery (ies) that is (are) not Emergency in nature, as Emergency is defined hereunder.