Medical News | Medical Articles: Living with Advanced Breast Cancer

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August 13, 2019     Breast Cancer     The latest breast cancer news from News Medical

Living with Advanced Breast Cancer In general, advanced breast cancer, means that we cannot cure these patients. The tumor is not in a local regional area, or we cannot operate to remove the tumour. It's important to consider the psychological and emotional impact of living with cancer on the patient. It’s important for clinicians to take time to talk to patients; not just about chemotherapy, but about their lives and how their lifestyles will need to change it terms of what they can and can’t do, and help them come to terms with the life that they are going to have. - Dr Javier Cortes Read Full Article Here

Review provides new recommendations to manage menopausal symptoms after breast cancer   A large proportion of the world's estimated 9.3 million breast cancer survivors experience menopausal symptoms or clinical manifestations of estrogen deficiency.         Women who inherit BRCA mutations have high risk of developing cancer   Women who inherit harmful mutations in the BRCA1 or BRCA2 gene are at high risk of developing breast and ovarian cancer.

Special blood test may predict relapse risk for breast cancer patients   A special blood test may one day predict if a newly diagnosed breast cancer patient will likely relapse years later, a City of Hope study suggests. The effectiveness of a person’s anti-tumor immune response is determined by the balance between pro-inflammatory and anti-inflammatory signaling pathways in response to cytokines, according to the July 8 Nature Immunology study.       Scientists use AI to recognize patterns in breast cancer   Scientists have used artificial intelligence to recognize patterns in breast cancer - and uncovered five new types of the disease each matched to different personalized treatments.       Women with breast cancer should start postoperative chemotherapy soon   Women with breast cancer should start postoperative chemotherapy, when recommended, ideally within four months of their cancer diagnosis because new study findings show that waiting longer is associated with poorer overall survival.       Tumor tissue-freezing method may help more women with breast cancer in lower income countries   A new reusable device created by the Johns Hopkins University can help women with breast cancer in lower income countries by using carbon dioxide, a widely available and affordable gas, to power a cancer tissue-freezing probe instead of industry-standard argon.       Using machine learning algorithm to accurately diagnose breast cancer   Breast cancer is the leading cause of cancer-related death among women. It is also difficult to diagnose. Nearly one in 10 cancers is misdiagnosed as not cancerous, meaning that a patient can lose critical treatment time.       Combining breast and gynecologic surgery not such a good idea   A new study from the University of Colorado Cancer Center finds that it is best if women who have to have both preventive gynecologic and breast surgeries have them done separately. The same dictum applies to breast reconstructive procedures following a mastectomy.

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