Breast Cancer News

Primary endpoints of randomized clinical trials for cancer therapies frequently change after trial initiation, according to findings published in JAMA Network Open.

Black women with HER2-positive breast cancer and brain metastases appeared at higher risk for mortality than their white counterparts, according to study results published in Journal of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network.

Cancer survivors delayed or forwent care more often than those in the general population because their clinician was of another identity, according to a research letter published in JAMA Oncology.

When I graduated from oncology fellowship in 2015, I went straight into an academic position thinking that I would continue to pursue my goals of early drug development and phase 1 clinical trials.

Certain clinical and socioeconomic factors appeared to predict delays in time to treatment initiation among patients with various cancer types, according to study results published in JCO Oncology Practice.

During the time that nurse educator Lauren McGovern, MSN, RN, OCN, researched ways to gamify oncology infusion nursing orientation, she also happened to be looking for an escape room to entertain her kids.

Deaths with cancer as either an underlying or primary cause decreased across the United States during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic when compared with the previous year, according to data published in JCO Oncology Practice.

Cancer death rates decreased overall across congressional districts in the United States over the past 25 years, according to a study published in Cancer.

The American College of Radiology, or ACR, updated its guidance to recommend that all women receive a breast cancer risk assessment by the age of 25 years to determine if screening is needed earlier than age 40 years.

Obesity may cause DNA damage in the breast tissue of BRCA mutation carriers and may increase breast cancer risk in this already high-risk population, according to multi-institutional research led by investigators at Weill Cornell Medicine.