A new study published in the American Cancer Society journal Cancer reconsiders when to begin mammogram screening if a woman has a first-degree family relative diagnosed with breast cancer. Breast cancer screening guidelines recommend that women whose sister, mother, or daughter have been diagnosed with breast cancer and are otherwise at average risk get screened ten years earlier than the relative diagnosis age. However, there is little evidence to support the long-standing recommendation. ...
Disparities in Breast Cancer
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Advanced practice nurse Patricia Jakel is highlighting the distressing survival rates for Black women with breast cancer.
A study showed Asian women had the highest risk of not receiving a biopsy after a mammogram identified an abnormality.
Swiss researchers have found that circulating tumor cells are more prone to metastasize during a body's resting phase.
Ongoing research at the National Cancer Institute’s (NCI) Center for Cancer Research has revealed a method of ...
The number of patients who survived after receiving presurgical chemotherapy or surgical removal of breast cancer tissue ...
The genetic makeup of every individual consists of BRCA 1 and 2 (Breast Cancer genes) which are tumor-suppressing genes ...
Champion’s Health Belief Model Scale (CHBMS) is a scale used by social psychologists to estimate the beliefs of ...
The disparities may be masked by data showing that women of Asian descent have a low risk of adverse breast cancer effects.
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