Researchers compared patient-reported outcome measures, expert panel assessment, and computerized outcomes tool to determine which method was the gold standard for aesthetic outcomes of surgical treatment for breast cancer.
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Women with meningioma have a 10-fold higher risk of developing breast cancer than women in the general population, a meta-analysis suggests.
Common barriers to screening adherence include race/ethnicity, low socioeconomic and education levels.
Nurse response to remote symptom monitoring (RSM) system alert may not be influenced by severity of patient’s symptoms or cancer stage.
A large observational cohort study in England showed improvements in 5-year breast cancer mortality rates for women with early breast cancer.
Clinically important differences seen in prevalence of dense breasts even after adjustment for body mass index.
Ten-year data from the Short-HER trial suggest that 1 year of adjuvant trastuzumab should remain standard care for HER2+ early breast cancer.
Sacituzumab govitecan improves outcomes vs physician’s choice of treatment in patients with endocrine-resistant, HR+, HER2- metastatic breast cancer, results from the phase 3 TROPiCS-02 study suggest.
Findings seen in patients with hormone receptor-positive advanced breast cancer with relapse, progression during aromatase inhibitor treatment.
Patients with HR+, HER2- metastatic breast cancer whose disease progressed on endocrine therapy (ET) and a CDK4/6 inhibitor have better progression-free survival if they switch ET and receive ribociclib than if they switch ET alone, a phase 2 study suggests.