Breast Cancer

An intervention consisting of electronic health record reminders and patient outreach improved follow-up completion of overdue abnormal cancer screening results, a study in JAMA Network Open showed.

Women with less access to mammogram screening and women with obesity had higher breast cancer mortality rates, according to a study published in JAMA Network Open.

Women who received anthracycline chemotherapy following a childhood cancer diagnosis are at an increased risk for subsequent breast cancer later in life, according to data published in Nature Medicine.

Early contralateral breast cancer development after primary breast cancer for women with certain subgroups of breast cancer was associated with survival in Korean women, researchers reported.

County-level age-adjusted breast cancer mortality rates were higher among women with less access to mammogram screening and also among women with obesity, according to study results published in JAMA Network Open.

Information AI-powered chatbots provided related to search queries on the most common cancer types generally produced accurate information with poor actionability, study results published in JAMA Oncology showed.

Women should undergo routine breast cancer screening in order to diagnose and treat breast cancer in its earliest stages for a higher likelihood of treatment success.

In the first years of use, women prescribed conjugated estrogens/bazedoxifene vs. estrogen/progestin for menopausal symptoms may have higher rates of endometrial cancer and endometrial hyperplasia but lower breast cancer rates.

A small study showed no impact from troponin-guided carvedilol and candesartan intervention to preserve cardiac function among seemingly high-risk patients undergoing chemotherapy.

Breast Cancer Awareness Month is observed every October.