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7 Key Cancer Trends For 2018 | Breast Cancer Research Aid

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Issues that will affect the lives of cancer patients in 2018 1. Less chemotherapy A recent report finds that among patients with the most common form of early-stage breast cancer, chemotherapy prescriptions slid, overall, from around 34.5% to 21.3%, in a recent 2-year interval (2013-2015). That’s a huge drop, from over a third of women with stage 1 or 2 disease getting chemo, to just over a fifth taking chemo. This trend is impressive and credible in context of growing discussion and awareness of overtreatment and (although authors of this particular study found no link) wider use and acceptance, among oncologists, of recurrence predictors like OncotypeDx and MammaPrint. The shift for breast cancer is clear. Whether this pattern will emerge and extend to other and less-tracked malignancies, I’m not sure. Probably it will happen variably, by tumor type, and more in the future. 2. More prescription of novel anti-cancer agents Doctors increasingly prescribe targeted drugs f...
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Breast Cancer Awareness, Signs and Symptoms

Breast cancer is cancer that forms in the cells of the breasts. After skin cancer, breast cancer is the most common cancer diagnosed in women in the United Kingdom. Breast cancer can occur in both men and women, but it’s far more common in women. Substantial support for breast cancer awareness and  Breast Cancer Research Aid  has helped created advances in the diagnosis and treatment of breast cancer. Breast cancer survival rates have increased, and the number of deaths associated with this disease is steadily declining, largely due to factors such as earlier detection, a new personalized approach to treatment and a better understanding of the disease. Knowing how your breasts normally look and feel is an important part of breast health. Finding breast cancer as early as possible gives you a better chance of successful treatment. But knowing what to look for does not take the place of having regular mammograms and other screening tests. Screening tests can help find breas...
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A Breakthrough Vaccine for Breast and Gastric Cancer is in Trial

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A VACCINE that treats one of the most common forms of breast cancer charity is being developed by an Aussie company and one day it could be used to prevent cancer. The therapy stimulates the body’s own immune system to fight the cancer and studies have showed it produced improved survival rates in mice. The vaccine will help the one in four women whose breast cancer over expresses the HER2 protein as well as HER2 gastric cancer patients. Over 1 million cases of gastric cancer are diagnosed each year, mostly in Asia, and the five year survival rate is just 30 per cent. Trials in Europe have already shown the vaccine is safe and it is now being trialled in Asia on gastric cancer patients. While researchers hope it will help breast cancer patients, they can’t trial it on these patients in Australia yet. This is because standard use of the expensive drug Herceptin treatment here would conflict with proving the vaccine works. Medical University of Vienna researcher Professor Ur...
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Top 10 Hale and hearty Tips for Breast Cancer Prevention

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It is every woman's duty to take care of their health. Here are some tips to protect your breasts from cancer. Exercise Regularly: "Keep moving every day". Exercise is your best friend when it comes to any health-related problem. The more you sweat, the more calories you burn and this helps you stay healthy. Go for regular checkups : Visit your doctor every now and then, especially if you have any doubts. This is not a condition where you can think and postpone your doctor visit to the next month or even later. The earlier you get diagnosed, the earlier you will save yourself! Know your family history : It is important to know your family history, because most cancers are hereditary. If anyone in your family suffers or has suffered from cancer, then you are prone to a high risk. Encourage breast feeding: If you are a new mom, do not stop breast feeding for any reason. Breast feeding makes you and your baby stay healthy and energized. Besides givin...
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Risk of breast cancer recurrence lasts for decades

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By Lisa Rapaport Many women who follow initial  breast cancer treatment  with five years of hormone therapy to keep tumors at bay may still experience new malignancies up to two decades after their diagnosis, a study suggests. Researchers examined data from 88 clinical trials involving 62,923 women with estrogen receptor (ER)-positive tumors. After treating ER-positive tumors with chemotherapy, radiation or surgery, women typically get five years of follow-up therapy with daily hormone-based pills – either tamoxifen or aromatase inhibitors. The goal of the adjuvant therapy is to destroy any lingering cancer cells not killed by initial treatment. All of the women were cancer-free when they completed five years of adjuvant hormone-based therapy. During the next 15 years, however, cancer returned for 41% of the highest-risk women in the study who originally had the largest tumors that had spread the most beyond the breast, the study found. Even the lowest-risk wome...
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Brave leader in breast cancer support

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The more than 500 women who over 20 years were members of the Breast Cancer Charity Support Group of the Bone Marrow Donor Institute, a support group Avis Macphee founded in 1994, will best remember her for her support, friendship, sense of humour, enjoyment of life and willingness to engage in their struggles and provide information to assist us to make treatment decisions. Avis convened meetings in which women revealed diagnoses, planned funerals, mourned the loss of relationships and their hair, exchanged notes on their treating physicians, shared black humour and then laughed afterwards over pasta and garlic bread in a Lygon Street restaurant. The partners of some of those women who died will remember Avis as the woman who offered support and caring and an invitation to dinner after the death of the partner. She was the one who stayed in touch. Researchers will recall Avis as the tireless, well-informed advocate who educated them about the perspectives and experience of w...
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