Medication-related osteonecrosis of the jaw is prevalent in patients with breast cancer
1. The cumulative incidence of medication-related osteonecrosis of the jaw (MRONJ) in patients with breast cancer bone metastases was much ...
Tag: Breast Cancer
Dose-dense adjuvant therapy with epirubicin and cyclophosphamide effective for breast cancer
1. Dose-dense adjuvant chemotherapy involving sequential epirubicin/cyclophosphamide and docetaxel showed improved breast cancer recurrence-free survival and event-free survival compared to ...
#VisualAbstract Bilateral Masectomy Reduces Risk of Contralateral Breast Cancer But Does Not Reduce the Breast Cancer Mortality Rate
Click here to read this study in the NEJM. ©2024 2 Minute Medicine, Inc. All rights reserved. No works may be reproduced without ...
Hormone-modulating therapy decreased risk of dementia in breast cancer patients
1. In a retrospective cohort study of women newly diagnosed with breast cancer, use of hormone therapy was associated with ...
AstraZeneca and Daiichi Sankyo: Enhertu significantly reduced the risk of disease progression in low and ultra-low HER2 metastatic breast cancer.
In patients with hormone-receptor (HR)-positive metastatic breast cancer and low or ultra-low levels of HER2 expression, Enhertu led to a ...
Quantifying the reduction of primary breast cancer associated with exercise
1. Across a follow-up period of approximately 5 years, there was a non-linear relationship between exercise at breast cancer diagnosis ...
#VisualAbstract: The Use of Aspirin as an Adjuvant Therapy has No Impact on Breast Cancer
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Positron emission tomography-guided treatment strategy may reduce need for chemotherapy for patients with HER2+ breast cancer
1. 3-year invasive disease-free survival among the PET-based treatment group was 94.8%. 2. There were fewer treatment-related and serious adverse ...
Lumicell: Injectable imaging agent illuminates residual breast cancer tissue during surgery to ensure tumor removal.
In the intervention group of 357 patients, 27 had additional removal of residual tumor based on imaging agent-guided technology. Six ...
#VisualAbstract: Sentinel-node biopsy only is noninferior to completion of axillary lymph node dissection in breast cancer with sentinel-node metastases
1. The hazard ratio for recurrence or death comparing sentinel node biopsy only to completion axillary lymph node dissection was ...
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