Tag: Cancer: Breast
Skipping First Mammogram Screening Increases Long-Term Breast Cancer Mortality Risk
Higher mortality likely reflects delayed detection, not higher incidence
Elderly Patients Benefit From Screening Mammography
Women 80 years and older with screening more likely to present with earlier-stage disease and have better survival versus unscreened women
FDA Approves Inluriyo for Advanced Breast Cancer
Approval is for adults with ER-positive, HER2-negative, ESR1-mutated advanced or metastatic breast cancer
Adding Molecular Breast Imaging to DBT Beneficial for Dense Breasts
Adding MBI to digital breast tomosynthesis provided incremental cancer detection rates of 6.7 and 3.5 percent at year 1 and year 2, respectively
Guidelines Developed for Postmastectomy Radiation Therapy
PMRT indicated for most with node-positive breast cancer and select patients with node-negative disease
Wrist Cooling May Help Manage Vasomotor Symptoms
Benefits seen across participants with breast or prostate cancer, as well as postmenopausal women
Complication Risk Top Concern for African American Women Undergoing Breast Reconstruction
Additional operations and abdominal morbidity also top of the list of concerns in a survey of African American women undergoing mastectomy
Risk for Second Cancer Low for Women Treated for Early, Invasive Breast Cancer
Contralateral breast cancer drives overall increase, especially in younger women
Remotely Delivered Weight-Loss Intervention Beneficial in Breast Cancer
Intervention induces significant weight loss across demographic and treatment factors in patients with breast cancer, BMI ≥27
AI Mammography Interpretation Model With Uncertainty Quantifications Can Reduce Radiologist Workload
With the best-performing uncertainty metric, 61.9 percent of examinations were read by radiologists in a recent study
