Sentences with phrase «most women with breast cancer»

Currently, most women with breast cancer are treated with breast - conserving surgery followed by radiation to the whole breast.

Not exact matches

Many doctors who no longer advise mammograms for most women younger than 50 continue to suggest them for those with a family history of breast or ovarian cancer.

By hitting breast cancer cells with a targeted therapeutic immediately after chemotherapy, researchers from Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) were able to target cancer cells during a transitional stage when they were most vulnerable, killing cells and shrinking tumors in the lab and in pre-clinical models.

Around 15 per cent of women with breast cancer have this form of the disease, in which tumour cells lack the three receptors that most drugs target.

A new phase 3 study in some of the most difficult - to - treat patients, women with endocrine - resistant disease, showed that the newly approved drug, palbociclib, more than doubled the time to cancer recurrence for women with hormone - receptor (HR +) positive metastatic breast cancer.

The blockbuster drug Herceptin is a first - line treatment for many women with HER2 - positive breast cancer, but in most cases, resistance to the treatment develops within a year.

But if a woman has a BRCA1 mutation and most of her relatives have developed very early breast cancer, I worry about her a little bit more than a woman in a family with a BRCA1 mutation where, for whatever reason, they don't seem to have as many cancers.

«If you are a young woman who was treated with radiation therapy to your chest as a teenager or child for HL, or for that matter chest radiation therapy for any reason, you should be having a conversation with your family doctor or your oncologist about whether to start breast cancer screening earlier than most women would,» says Dr. Hodgson.

«In the future, we'd like to be able to profile individual cancer genomes so that we can identify the treatment most likely to be successful for a woman or man diagnosed with breast cancer,» says Dr Nik - Zainal of the Sanger Institute.

Breast MRI is the most sensitive imaging technique for cancer surveillance and is recommended for screening in women with elevated risk of breast cBreast MRI is the most sensitive imaging technique for cancer surveillance and is recommended for screening in women with elevated risk of breast cbreast cancer.

Obesity is associated in general with cancer, but the link with breast cancer is especially striking: In one recent large study, the most overweight women were at a 58 % higher risk than women of normal weight.

«The question reveals a tension between the goals of health - behavior promotion and informed patient decision - making that has plagued researchers in several health domains, most notably with regard to women's often overly pessimistic perceptions of their breast cancer risk,» Sweeny and Dillard wrote in «The Effects of Expectation Disconfirmation on Appraisal, Affect, and Behavioral Intentions,» published this month in the online edition of Risk Analysis: An International Journal.

«More women are now being diagnosed with breast cancer than ever before, and these crucial findings could ultimately help us more accurately predict who is most at risk and develop new targeted treatments.

«Women with unilateral breast cancer undergoing contralateral prophylactic mastectomy continue to report a desire to extend life as one of the most important factors leading to their surgical decision,» added Dr. Golshan.

Worldwide, lung cancer is the most commonly diagnosed form of cancer.1 In the United Kingdom, its annual incidence is second only to that of breast cancer, accounting for around 39000 new cancer diagnoses annually.2 In countries that have seen a high prevalence of smoking, around 90 % of diagnoses of lung cancer are attributable to cigarette smoking.3 The increased incidence from smoking is proportional to the length and intensity of smoking history.4 On average, a lifetime smoker has a 20-fold increase in the risk of developing lung cancer compared with a lifetime non - smoker.1 Lung cancer is more common in men than in women, closely following past patterns of smoking prevalence, and 80 % of cases are diagnosed in people aged over 60.2

Laura Donnelly Thousands of women with the most deadly form of breast cancer could be given hope by a breakthrough treatment which could make chemotherapy effective.

A new study has estimated the ages at which women with faults in two particular genes are most at risk of developing breast and ovarian cancer.

Although being diagnosed with breast cancer is usually an extremely stressful experience for most women, a new study by researchers at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center has found that there also can be unexpected benefits.

She had zeroed in on a suspicious section of chromosome 17 that carried particular genetic markers in women with breast cancer in the most severely affected families.

With stats like that, it's no wonder that breast cancer is the most - feared cancer among women.

In most women with an average risk of breast cancer, screening doesn't start until at least age 40 and sometimes later.

Triple - negative cancer is the most common type of breast cancer found in women with changes in a gene called BRCA1.

Research has shown that women with estrogen - sensitive breast cancer (the most common form) who walked just three to five hours a week at a moderate pace experienced a 50 percent lower risk of dying from breast cancer, compared with physically inactive women with the disease.

Most breast cancers are diagnosed in women over age 50, but it's not clear why some women get breast cancer (including women with no risk factors) and others do not (including those who do have risk factors).

I never felt so grateful for my body, for my big hips, my cellulite, my frizzy hair, my long gangly toes, and all the idiosyncrasies that make me unique, than when I watched dozens of women afflicted with cancer, most now living without one or both of their breasts, practice yoga without any sense of comparison or competition, without trepidation or worry, or when I received the warmest hugs from these women, without a shred if insecurity or inhibition.

With breast cancer the most commonly diagnosed cancer among women in Australia — affecting an estimated 128,000 families each year, the Happy Moment competition will celebrate the support women give each other, and honour the support the McGrath Breast Care Nurses give Australian fambreast cancer the most commonly diagnosed cancer among women in Australia — affecting an estimated 128,000 families each year, the Happy Moment competition will celebrate the support women give each other, and honour the support the McGrath Breast Care Nurses give Australian famBreast Care Nurses give Australian families.

One of his remarkable success stories includes a woman diagnosed with inflammatory breast cancer, which is the most aggressive form.

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Women with the most common forms of breast cancer who are overweight or obese at the time of diagnosis have significantly higher risk of breast cancer recurrence and death.

FACT: Breast cancer is the most common cancer in women worldwide (find a great interactive site with facts about cancer around the world here.)

In addition, most women diagnosed with inflammatory breast cancer have dense breast tissue, which makes cancer detection in a screening mammogram more difficult.

For most women, he adds, these benefits will outweigh the small increase in breast cancer risk associated with alcohol consumption.

About one in four women are diagnosed with breast cancer and as a result of early detection and improved treatment, most survice.