The enhanced tactile sensitivity of blind and visually impaired women might make them especially suitable for breast examination, according to a visionary German gynaecologist. If it’s true that mammography is an effective breast cancer screening [more]
Could tailoring treatments to broad taxonomies work where targeting individual – or even multiple – genetic mutations has not? A growing number of researchers working on specific tumour types and/or across tumours believe this integrative [more]
The perspective of undergoing radiation therapy usually scares most breast cancer patients, but according to a new study most women treated with modern breast radiation therapy describe their experience as much better than they expected. [more]
An undesired effect of preventive screening for cancer is often overlooked: it’s not only the tendency to diagnose more and more cancers that would be likely to grow slowly – and to increase overdiagnosis – but [more]
Day two of ABC-Lisbon featured a pioneer in metastatic breast cancer advocacy, Musa Mayer, who gave the ABC Award lecture. Mayer told the history of how the “silent voices” of women with advanced disease came [more]
Chair: O. Pagani, CH Breast cancer in young women is a complex disease, occurring when these women are at the peak of their reproductive years, family life and careers. Being a somewhat rare disease the [more]
Training Egypt’s breast surgeons in techniques of plastic surgery is giving survivors a better quality of life and transforming women’s attitudes towards the disease. Having proved it is possible in his own country, Omar Youssef [more]
So, your friend endured any number of treatments: chemotherapy, lumpectomy or mastectomy, possibly reconstruction, radiation therapy… and then when scans were done, instead of hearing the magical words “remission” or “cured,” your friend heard, “your [more]
Hair loss can be a big concern for many cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy, and according to a recent review of the literature published on the Clinical Journal of Oncology Nursing, «scalp cooling efficacy is dependent [more]
“The first time I felt a little awkward because I had never seen a breast with mastectomy and it was not an easy case. This woman had undergone many surgeries in her effort to make [more]
A chance to work at the heart of the trailblazing MINDACT trial gave Ivana Božović-Spasojević a memorable lesson in the value of international academic trials, and the logistics of how to run them. She spoke [more]
Male breast cancer is almost always oestrogen receptor positive, and is traditionally treated in line with guidelines for treating hormone-sensitive breast cancers in postmenopausal women. Ian Fentiman questions the rationale for this approach, pointing to [more]
The first edition of the Joint “ESO-DFCI Breast Cancer in Young Women Symposium” will be held during the Breast Cancer: New Horizons, Current Controversies Course, on July 15 in Boston, United States. Breast cancer in [more]