Dec 28
New drug cuts fracture risk in breast cancer:
An experimental drug has shown promising results in lowering the risk of serious bone complications among patients with advanced breast cancer.
According to a study presented at the 2009 CTRC-AACR San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium in Texas, denosumab reduces the risk of serious bone complications including fractures, spinal cord compression and the need for radiation or surgery to bone in breast cancer sufferers by 23 percent.
Denosumab, which acts by targeting a protein that activates bone-destroying cells, significantly postpones the first incidence of such events. Continue reading »
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Dec 28
The goal of complementary medicine is to balance the whole person — physically, mentally, and emotionally — while conventional medicine does its work. For many people diagnosed with breast cancer, complementary medicine has helped to:
relieve symptoms
ease treatment side effects
improve quality of life
Researchers are working to better understand the value and benefit of complementary medicine in breast cancer
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Dec 28
Treatment of recurrent breast cancer (cancer that has come back after treatment) in the breast or chest wall may include the following:
surgery (radical or modified radical mastectomy), radiation therapy, or both.
Systemic chemotherapy or hormone therapy.
A clinical trial of trastuzumab (Herceptin) combined with systemic chemotherapy
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Dec 28
Treatment of inflammatory breast cancer may include the following:
Systemic chemotherapy.
Systemic chemotherapy followed by surgery (breast-conserving surgery or total mastectomy), with lymph node dissection followed by radiation therapy. Additional systemic therapy (chemotherapy, hormone therapy, or both) may be given.
Clinical trials testing new anticancer drugs, new drug combinations, and new ways of giving treatment
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Dec 28
Treatment of ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) may include the following:
Breast-conserving surgery and radiation therapy with or without tamoxifen.
Total mastectomy with or without tamoxifen.
Breast-conserving surgery without radiation therapy.
Clinical trials testing breast-conserving surgery and tamoxifen with or without radiation therapy. Continue reading »
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