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It may come as a surprise to many people that doctors don’t always know which treatment is the most effective for a patient. They base their decision on years of medical knowledge and experience, results observed in other patients, collaboration with colleagues, and information obtained from medical conferences and journals. Clinical trials are another valuable […]

Listen to Dr Eric Brown participate on this DCIS webcast discussion. With 60,000 new pure DCIS patients diagnosed annually in the US, Drs. Rick Brown and James Pellicane offer insights as to how they use this test in their practice when counseling DCIS patients.  Currently 77% of DCIS patients have breast conserving surgery (BCS), but […]

A new study reveals that adequate sleep may improve survival time for women with advanced stages of breast cancer. According to the study, survival time for patients that received adequate sleep was 68.9 months (5.74 years), while inadequate sleepers survived an average of 33.2 months (2.76 years). Researchers also found that just a 10 percent […]

Hair loss (alopecia) is an unfortunate side effect of chemotherapy, but breast cancer researchers are experimenting with scalp hypothermia (cryotherapy or cold-cap therapy)—a technique that uses a special head-cap to protect against chemo-induced alopecia. According to the NY Daily News, a scalp-cooling device known as a DigniCap may soon be available in the U.S., and […]

A remarkable story broke last week about two, twin sisters both diagnosed with breast cancer within a few months of each other and one twin donating tissue to her sister for breast reconstruction surgery. The 34-year-old twin sisters from Crown Point, Indiana, Kristen Maurer and Kelly McCarthy, were not the first to donate tissue to […]

Breast Cancer Survivors Offered Free Nipple Tattoos Breast cancer survivors in Halifax, Nova Scotia who have undergone mastectomies are being treated to a complimentary nipple and areola tattoo. Newcombes Ink, a local tattoo parlor known for its community involvement, says the effort is to “help someone feel comfortable in their own skin.” Under normal circumstances, mastectomy […]

Roche, a Swiss global health-care company, has recently received a positive review from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) concerning their new pre-surgical breast cancer treatment drug, Perjeta. In actuality, a positive review is an understatement. FDA scientists are recommending accelerating the approval process for the drug, a measure usually reserved for pioneering drugs that […]

Women taking calcium channel blockers, a common drug to control hypertension, may more than double their risk for breast cancer if the medication is administered for more than a decade. This alarming finding was released this past Monday in the journal JAMA Internal Medicine by the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, located in Seattle, Washington. […]

Twenty years ago Nedra Lindsay agreed to take part in a medical trial that involved wearing “[…] this up-and-coming device that was going to be used to detect breast cancer,” Lindsay said. Only 25 at the time, Lindsay didn’t think much of the instrument consisting of sensors and a small data pack that monitors changes […]

We’ve all heard the alarming statistic: 1 in 8 women living in the United States will be diagnosed with breast cancer. That is pretty misleading and requires a caveat that is often neglected. “Over the course of her lifetime – 1 in 8 women…” The statistic is based on the entire population living beyond the […]