Breast Cancer News & Features

Aspirin's protective effect appears particularly pronounced among people who are overweight -- those with a body mass index of 25 to 29.9, the results show.

Researchers analyzed data from nearly 47,000 U.S. women, followed for an average of more than eight years as part of the federally funded Sisters Study. All of the women had a sister who'd been diagnosed with breast cancer, but they didn't have breast cancer themselves at the start of the study.

Mammograms Every 2 Years Could Come With Risks By Amy Norton HealthDay Reporter WEDNESDAY, Nov. 27, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Women who get mammograms every two years instead of annually might face a greater risk of being diagnosed with larger, later-stage breast tumors, a new, preliminary study suggests.Researchers found that among 232 breast cancer patients at their hospital, those who'd undergone mammography screening every two years tended to have more advanced tumors: Of those 32 women, 44% were diagnosed with stage 2 or later cancer, versus 24% of patients who'd undergone annual screening.The study did not

Overall, higher levels of mindfulness were associated with less pain, fatigue, anxiety, depression and sleep disturbance, according to the study published Nov. 8 in the journal Psycho-Oncology.

Jade Devis was just a few months pregnant when she learned she had a fast-growing type of breast cancer.

One U.S. breast cancer expert was encouraged by the findings, but agreed there's still a long way to go before blood tests replace mammograms in breast cancer detection.

In 2017, the FDA warned health care providers and thermography device makers not to mislead people into believing thermal imaging could take the place of a mammogram.

Longer delays in surgery for ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) breast cancer lead to a higher risk of invasive ductal carcinoma and a slightly lower survival rate, researchers found.

It's an extremely rare form of cancer in men, and male breast cancer accounts for just 1% of all breast cancer cases, said Dr. Siddhartha Yadav, a hematology-oncology fellow with the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn.

New Cases Up, But Breast Cancer Deaths Fall Again By Amy Norton HealthDay Reporter WEDNESDAY, Oct. 2, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Deaths from breast cancer are still declining in the United States, even as more women are being diagnosed with the disease, a new report shows.Researchers from the American Cancer Society found that the national decline in breast cancer deaths, which began about 30 years ago, is still evident. Between 1989 and 2017, the overall death rate dropped 40%.The pace of that decline, however, has slowed down in recent years.Meanwhile, the rate of new breast cancer

A new study argues there's potential benefit in regular mammograms for men who are at high risk of breast cancer.

New recommendations from the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) may help clarify who can benefit most from a risk assessment test. Now, if a woman has a high risk, the task force is recommending that she see a genetic counselor and possibly be tested for the BRCA mutations.

The test is individualized using DNA from a piece of the tumor taken when the breast cancer is first diagnosed.

What the study team couldn't determine was exactly why your sleep type -- early bird or night owl -- could affect your risk of breast cancer.

MRI screening did findmore tumors, but it also more than doubled the number of biopsies women needed -- many of which turned out to be benign, the researchers said.

The drug, called Kisqali (ribociclib), is already approved for treating such patients -- based on earlier results showing it can delay the progression of their cancer.

Researchers found that eating low-fat foods reduced a woman's risk of dying from breast cancer by 21%.

Researchers found that trans women on hormone therapy had a higher breast cancer risk than the general male population but lower than the general female population.

Studies so far have suggested that computers can outperform humans when it comes to diagnosing certain tumors.

The new guidelines recommend that all women have a formal risk assessment by age 25. Women with an increased risk of breast cancer should be screened based on their specific risk factors. Women with average risk should begin annual screening at age 40.

Women whose cancers are fueled by hormones such as estrogen and progesterone might think they can choose radiation or surgery, but a combination gives the best results, one expert noted

Compared with yearly screening, biannual mammograms do not significantly boost the average woman's risk of death from breast cancer. And they greatly reduce the potential harms, the American Council of Physicians said.

Surgery was associated with a 44% increased chance of survival, assuming that most patients were also treated with chemo or targeted drug therapies, the study found.

Not only is dense breast tissue a risk factor for breast cancer, but mammograms can be difficult to interpret because dense tissue can obscure signs of breast cancer.

If doctors could better predict which patients had a high recurrence risk, those women might want to continue hormone therapy past the standard five years.