Breast Cancer News

Healio spoke with Ahmed Elkhanany, MD, about treatment options available in metastatic triple-negative breast cancer.

A depression diagnosis before and after a breast cancer diagnosis appeared associated with worse survival outcomes, according to study results published in Cancer.

Healio spoke with Ahmed Elkhanany, MD, about recent advancements in metastatic triple-negative breast cancer.

Whole-exome sequencing identified carriers of predisposition genes for hereditary breast and ovarian cancer or Lynch syndrome who, under current guidelines, would not have qualified for genetic testing, according to study results.

Cancer Moonshot’s goal of reducing the cancer death rate by at least 50% over the next 25 years will depend upon greater access to and utilization of cancer prevention interventions, according to a study presented at an NCI press briefing.

Sleep disorders are among the biggest issues patients with cancer and survivors face, yet research on interventions to address these disorders remains sparse, according to speakers at National Comprehensive Cancer Network Annual Conference.

Results of a large meta-analysis indicated that Black race was associated with greater odds of cardiotoxicity and HF diagnosis after chemotherapy compared with white and non-Black race, a speaker reported.

Black and Asian women with early-stage, hormone-receptor positive, HER2-negative, node-negative breast cancer appeared about twice as likely as their white counterparts to experience locoregional recurrence.

The number of individuals diagnosed with and treated for cancer in the United States decreased 14% during 2020 compared with the previous year, a study published in JAMA Surgery showed.

In the 10 years after radiotherapy for breast cancer, the rate of CV mortality remained second to cancer mortality; however, patients had increased incidence of HF and arrhythmias compared with matched controls, researchers reported.