Breast Cancer News

Manuka honey may represent an alternative natural approach to reducing tumor growth in breast cancer, according to research conducted at UCLA Health Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center.

The development of more effective treatments — including personalized therapies — have dramatically improved outcomes for children and adolescents with cancer, according to American Association for Cancer Research’s Cancer Progress Report.

Mammography and digital breast tomosynthesis lead to very similar outcomes, so shared-decision making is important for breast cancer screening, according to an expert.

False-positive mammography results discouraged women to return for further screenings, results from an observational cohort study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine showed.

Use of pembrolizumab with neoadjuvant chemotherapy and as monotherapy in the adjuvant setting extended OS for patients with early-stage triple-negative breast cancer, according to results from the randomized phase 3 KEYNOTE-522 trial.

CHICAGO — Hormone therapy use among menopausal women has fallen to just 1.8% as of 2023, data show, despite evidence and clinical guidance suggesting HT is safe and effective for most women for bothersome menopausal symptoms.

A multi-institutional team of researchers developed an AI model designed to predict which patients with breast cancer are most likely to experience chronic pain.

Ann H. Partridge, MD, MPH, will receive this year’s ESMO Award.

In this video interview, Sara M. Tolaney, MD, MPH, discusses the individualized sequential therapies provided to patients based on the breast cancer subtype, genomics and other factors.