Breast Cancer

First-degree relatives of individuals with pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma who harbored certain cancer-associated pathogenic germline variants had significantly higher risk for developing several cancer types, study results showed.

In this episode, host Shikha Jain, MD, speaks with Ken Bloom, MD, FCAP, about developing technologies to assist cancer analysis and pathology, the spatial component of antibody conjugates and more.

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.

The number of cancer survivors with self-reported functional limitations throughout the United States has more than doubled over the past 2 decades, according to data 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.

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.

Postmenopausal women with early-stage breast cancer adapted successfully to the disease and endocrine therapy whether it was tamoxifen or aromatase inhibitor, researchers reported in Menopause.

All women aged 40 to 74 years should be screened for breast cancer every other year, according to a draft recommendation statement from the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force.