CHICAGO—A gene test that predicts for relapse in women with estrogen receptor positive early breast cancer can identify patients with low-risk disease who could safely avoid extending their endocrine therapy beyond the standard five years, according to study findings reported …
BARCELONA—More pre-menopausal women who have estrogen receptor (ER) positive advanced breast cancer could be spared chemotherapy—according to latest findings from the MONALEESA-7 double-blind randomized phase 3 trial in which either placebo (PBO) or the cyclin-dependent kinase (CDK) 4/6 inhibitor ribociclib …
BARCELONA—A multicenter nationwide Italian study of patients with ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) treated with breast conservative surgery (BCS) and whole breast radiotherapy (RT) has updated risk criteria to help women opt for gentler treatments and avoid toxicities from overtreatment.…
BARCELONA—Healthy women with BRCA1 mutations who opted for bilateral prophylactic mastectomy had their lives prolonged in comparison with similar women who did not. But in healthy women with the BRCA2 mutation the procedure did not improve overall survival even though …
  Lorie Hughes |   Rachel Ellsworth |   Rowan Chlebowski |   Victor Vogel |
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LORIE HUGHES, The Hope Center, Cartersville GA
The intergroup study E-5194 has found that local excision without radiation
  Jean Scott and Peter Illingworth |   Richard Anderson |   Anna Pia Ferraretti |