Unintentional weight loss is associated with an increase in the risk of a cancer diagnosis within the coming year, according to a study from Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.
Jan 23, 2024
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When I was a child, my grandma was diagnosed with breast cancer. She had a radical mastectomy at 55, which back then meant removing all her muscle, skin, and breast tissue—a disfiguring surgery that resulted in lingering ...
Jan 22, 2024
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The most important support person for women to succeed in their ambition to breastfeed is the new mother's partner. The partner also needs to be included through more support from health care professionals.
Jan 19, 2024
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In the United States, breast cancer screening and treatment were associated with a 58% reduction in breast cancer mortality in 2019 compared with 1975, according to a study published in the Jan. 16 issue of the Journal of ...
Jan 17, 2024
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Women who inherit and carry a faulty BRCA2 gene have a substantially increased risk of developing breast cancer—approximately 70% of carriers will develop the disease over their lifetime.
Jan 16, 2024
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Mathematicians from RUDN University have built a neural network that recognizes breast cancer on histological samples with almost 100% accuracy. This was achieved with the help of a module, which "sharpened the attention" ...
Jan 16, 2024
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There is a danger that population genetic screening programs may be introduced without the necessary scrutiny and rigor that is usually applied when screening programs are put into effect, experts have warned.
Jan 16, 2024
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For patients whose breast cancer converted from lymph node-positive to lymph node-negative disease after neoadjuvant chemotherapy, skipping adjuvant regional nodal irradiation (RNI) did not increase the risk of disease recurrence ...
Jan 15, 2024
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Extracts of a plant used in traditional medicine for centuries have shown anti-proliferative effects against breast cancer in a small early-stage clinical trial.
Jan 11, 2024
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With tens of thousands of synthetic chemicals on the market, and new ones in development all the time, knowing which ones might be harmful is a challenge both for the federal agencies that regulate them and the companies ...
Jan 10, 2024
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