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Innovative breast cancer treatment sequence yields positive results
Researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center showed that altering the sequence of breast cancer…
Pembrolizumab enhances breast cancer treatment regardless of age or menopausal status
New data from the KEYNOTE-756 phase 3 clinical trial show that adding the immunotherapy drug, pembrolizumab, to chemotherapy…
High BMI affects autologous breast reconstruction outcomes
For women undergoing autologous breast reconstruction – reconstruction using the patient’s own tissues, rather than implants – the…
MRI monitoring reduces breast cancer mortality in women with BRCA1 mutations
An international study, published in the JAMA Oncology journal, in which the Clinical Oncology group of the Sant…
Risk-reducing mastectomies lower breast cancer incidence and mortality in BRCA variant carriers
A study co-led by Professor Kelly Metcalfe of the Lawrence Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing, and researchers at the…