Breast Cancer News

Only 30% of women with health-related social needs underwent mammography screening for breast cancer in the previous 2 years, according to a newly released CDC Vital Signs report.

ATLANTA — Enalapril plus standard care was not superior to standard care alone for preventing cardiotoxicity in patients receiving treatment for breast cancer or lymphoma, according to new data from the PROACT trial.

Individuals with cancer reported significantly reduced pain immediately following a 10-minute virtual reality (VR) session, study results published in Cancer showed.

The FDA granted accelerated approval to fam-trastuzumab deruxtecan-nxki for the treatment of adults with unresectable or metastatic HER2-positive solid tumors who received previous systemic therapy and lack additional treatment options.

Fewer than one-third of recently approved molecular-targeted cancer therapies demonstrated “substantial patient benefits,” according to data published in JAMA Oncology.

New global cancer diagnoses could reach 35 million by the year 2050, according to a report from the American Cancer Society published in CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians.

Many young women with newly diagnosed breast cancer have concerns regarding fertility, and these concerns may impact their treatment decisions, according to study findings published in Cancer Medicine.

Socioecological factors may explain the disproportionate impact of aggressive breast tumor phenotypes for racial and ethnic minority women, according to study results published in JAMA Network Open.

Yolanda Bryce, MD, still remembers her patient’s shock.

Black, Hispanic and Asian women reported more arm swelling after axillary lymph node dissection for breast cancer compared with white women, according to findings published in JAMA Surgery.