Young Women Often Delay Looking Into Breast Symptoms
FRIDAY, April 12, 2025 -- Young women who find a lump or other potential signs of breast cancer often delay for weeks before finally seeing a doctor, a new study shows.On average, young women waited two weeks before seeing a doctor about troubling... (Source: Drugs.com - Daily MedNews)
Source: Drugs.com - Daily MedNews - April 12, 2024 Category: General Medicine Source Type: news
Negative axillary ultrasound can lead to breast biopsy omission
Many women with early-stage HR+HER2- breast cancer and a negative presurgical axillary ultrasound can skip sentinel lymph node biopsy, a study presented April 11 at the American Society of Breast Surgeons Annual Meeting in Orlando, FL, found.
In his talk, Andreas Giannakou, MD, from Brigham & Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston showed results suggesting that nodal disease burden and oncologic outcomes among women in a real-world setting are similar to criteria in the Sentinel Node vs. Observation After Axillary UltraSound (SOUND) trial.
“Although our follow-up is limited, oncologic outcomes are exce...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - April 12, 2024 Category: Radiology Authors: Amerigo Allegretto Tags: Ultrasound Womens Imaging Source Type: news
Many young women with breast cancer symptoms delay care
Many young women who have breast cancer symptoms delay timely screening and care, according to research presented April 11 at the American Society of Breast Surgeons Annual Meeting in Orlando, FL.
In her talk, Katherine Fleshner, MD, from the University of Calgary found that the leading reasons for delaying care include lack of concern, reassurance from another practitioner, difficulty accessing care, and competing priorities.
“Diagnostic delay was quite common among our cohort and most commonly was related to patient delay,” Fleshner said. “And many of the reasons for patient delay had to do with patients not bein...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - April 12, 2024 Category: Radiology Authors: Amerigo Allegretto Tags: Womens Imaging Source Type: news
I graduated from North Carolina 'cancer college' - at age 35 I've lost my best friend to the disease and am now battling stage three colon cancer myself
Just three weeks after her best friend was diagnosed with terminal breast cancer, Rebekah Dunston discovered she had stage three colon cancer herself. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
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ImPrint Identifies Treatment for Patients With Breast Cancer ImPrint Identifies Treatment for Patients With Breast Cancer
Data from the ongoing phase 2 trial show that clinicians can use ImPrint, an immune-related biomarker, to identify breast cancer patients who are likely to respond to neoadjuvant immunotherapy.MDedge News (Source: Medscape Hematology-Oncology Headlines)
Source: Medscape Hematology-Oncology Headlines - April 11, 2024 Category: Cancer & Oncology Tags: Hematology-Oncology News Source Type: news
Preventive Mastectomy Less Common for Black Women With Breast Cancer
THURSDAY, April 11, 2024 -- Black women with cancer in one breast are less likely than white women to have the healthy breast removed as well, a new study has found.
Women with cancer affecting one breast often elect to have the other breast... (Source: Drugs.com - Daily MedNews)
Source: Drugs.com - Daily MedNews - April 11, 2024 Category: General Medicine Source Type: news
Girls Aloud breast cancer pioneer runs to save more lives
Catherine Craven-Howe was the first woman to take part in the new breast cancer research project inspired by the late Girls Aloud singer Sarah Harding. (Source: Daily Express - Health)
Source: Daily Express - Health - April 10, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Why a New Study Dubbed India the ‘Cancer Capital of the World’
A new study has unveiled an alarming picture of declining overall health in India. The report, released by the Indian multinational healthcare group, Apollo Hospitals, found that skyrocketing cases of cancer and other non-communicable diseases across the country have now made it “the cancer capital of the world.”
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Despite reporting more than a million new cases every year, India’s cancer rate has not yet surpassed countries like Denmark, Ireland, and Belgium, which record some of the highest cancer rates in the world. It is also currently lower than the U.S....
Source: TIME: Health - April 10, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Astha Rajvanshi Tags: Uncategorized India Source Type: news
AI can be used to'rule-out' breast cancer on mammography
A deep-learning algorithm can rule out the presence of breast cancer on screening mammograms, improving specificity and yielding significant workflow and downstream savings, according to research published April 10 in Radiology.
A team of investigators led by first author Stefano Pedemonte, PhD, of AI software developer Whiterabbit.ai, and senior author Richard Wahl, MD, of the Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology, trained and tested a deep-learning algorithm using over 160,000 2D full-field digital mammography exams. They found their model could sharply reduce the number of screening mammograms requiring radiologist revie...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - April 10, 2024 Category: Radiology Authors: Erik L. Ridley Tags: Breast Breast Imaging Source Type: news
Intermediate Endpoints Predict Breast Cancer Survival Intermediate Endpoints Predict Breast Cancer Survival
Data suggest that intermediate clinical endpoints can serve as surrogate endpoints for overall survival in patients with early-stage breast cancer receiving adjuvant therapy.Medscape Medical News (Source: Medscape Hematology-Oncology Headlines)
Source: Medscape Hematology-Oncology Headlines - April 10, 2024 Category: Cancer & Oncology Tags: Hematology-Oncology Source Type: news
UltraCon: Harmonic motion imaging tracks breast tumor response to chemo
AUSTIN -- Harmonic motion imaging can track mechanical property changes of breast tumors in response to neoadjuvant chemotherapy, a study presented April 9 at UltraCon found.
In his presentation, Yangpei Liu from Columbia University in New York City discussed findings from his team’s study, which showed that harmonic motion imaging could be a predictor of early treatment response.
“Harmonic motion imaging-derives changes in tumor mechanical properties are more robust in early complete pathologic response prediction than tumor sizes,” Liu said.Yangpei Liu from Columbia University in Ney York City discussed findings ...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - April 10, 2024 Category: Radiology Authors: Amerigo Allegretto Tags: Ultrasound Womens Imaging Source Type: news
Novel PARP1 Inhibitor Shows Promise in Breast Cancer
(MedPage Today) -- SAN DIEGO -- Saruparib, an investigational selective PARP1 inhibitor, showed promising activity in patients with certain homologous recombination repair (HRR)-deficient breast cancers, while limiting toxicity, according to... (Source: MedPage Today Hematology/Oncology)
Source: MedPage Today Hematology/Oncology - April 9, 2024 Category: Hematology Source Type: news
Breastfeeding saved my life: New mother learns she has stage 3 CANCER after difficulty producing milk
Lauren da Silva, 39, of New Jersey, had just found out that she was pregnant with her second son, Ryan, when she was diagnosed with stage three HER2-positive breast cancer. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - April 9, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Some Breast Cancer Patients Can Retain Lymph Nodes, Avoiding Lymphedema
TUESDAY, April 9, 2024 -- Removal of armpit lymph nodes can leave many breast cancer patients with lingering lymphedema, a painful and unsightly swelling of the arm.Now, new Swedish research may help narrow down which patients require extensive... (Source: Drugs.com - Daily MedNews)
Source: Drugs.com - Daily MedNews - April 9, 2024 Category: General Medicine Source Type: news
AI helps select patients for supplemental breast cancer screening
In conclusion, AISmartDensity effectively identified patients who were likely to benefit from supplemental imaging after a negative screening mammogram,” they wrote.
The researchers noted that their model is currently acting as a postscreening reader in a randomized clinical trial to flag high-risk mammograms for supplemental MRI. This trial will provide further evidence of the model’s real-world performance in a clinical setting, according to the authors.
“This study highlights the potential of AI-based risk prediction in the era of personalized screening, offering precise identification of individuals who could b...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - April 9, 2024 Category: Radiology Authors: Erik L. Ridley Tags: Breast Artificial Intelligence Breast Imaging Source Type: news
