Study: MRIs of dense breasts find more cancer, but can also result in false alarms
The results give a clearer picture of the tradeoffs involved in such testing, but they can't answer the biggest question — whether it saves lives.
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Linda Wertheimer and Nina Totenberg on friend and colleague Cokie Roberts
The career of political journalist Cokie Roberts spanned more than 40 years and helped to transform the landscape for other women in the field. Roberts, who died Tuesday at age 75, worked extensively in both public and commercial media and…
Immunotherapy scores a first win against some breast cancers
For the first time, one of the new immunotherapy drugs has shown promise against breast cancer.
New approach to breast cancer screening — tailoring guidelines for each patient — may save lives and money, study says
A new study suggests that women might benefit from individualized approaches to mammograms rather than from universal guidelines.
New findings show women with early stage breast cancer can avoid chemotherapy. Researchers now say most women with smaller tumors can safely skip the treatment and avoid side effects like fatigue and nausea. Amna Nawaz learns more from Dr. Larry…
The study is the largest ever done of breast cancer treatment, and the results are expected to spare up to 70,000 patients a year in the United States and many more elsewhere the ordeal and expense of these drugs.
It’s easy for politics to dominate our news feeds these days. But there are many important stories in the health and medical communities, too. Here’s what we’re reading now.
The new study also found overall between 20 and 30 percent of women diagnosed with breast cancer will lose their jobs.
The study raises the uncomfortable possibility that some women who believe their lives were saved by mammograms were actually harmed by cancer screenings that led to surgery, radiation and even chemotherapy that they didn’t need.
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