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Watch out for second primary tumors in breast Ca patients: gynecologic, cColon cancers.
SAN ANTONIO -- Gynecologic and colon cancers are the malignancies most often associated with breast cancer, both as preceding and second events, Dr. K. Popi Siziopikou reported at a breast cancer symposium sponsored by the Cancer Therapy and Research Center.
Of 15,107 patients enrolled during 1993-2000 at the cancer registry of Loyola University Medical Center, 1,995 had breast cancer, of whom 272 (13.6%) had breast cancer plus at least one other primary malignancy.
Thirty-eight percent of breast cancer patients with a total of two malignancies had breast cancer as both their first and second primary cancers. Another 27% had breast cancer as their first event followed by a non-breast primary tumor. ...
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...as much risk for developing a second breast cancer as women with HR-positive tumors...They found that women who have had breast cancer are at increased risk of a second primary breast cancer, compared with risk in the general...
- Studies in the area of breast cancer reported from Dalhousie University,...
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...induces regression of human breast cancer primary tumor samples xenografted in immunocompromised...induce tumor regression in breast cancer patients," wrote P. Marcato...Medical Department (see also Breast Cancer). The researchers concluded...
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...effectively stages breast cancer without the further...node-negative breast cancer who underwent SLNB...years. Average primary tumor size was 1.42...diagnosis of invasive breast cancer, a primary tumor <5 cm, a...
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...considered a minimal breast cancer. How breast cancer spreads The primary tumor begins in the breast...axilla. Classically, the primary tumor begins in the breast...organs of the body. Breast cancer follows this classic...
- Lab Study Slows Breast Cancer Spread to Bone in Mice; Experimental drug may...
- News wire article from: Consumer Health News (English) November 12, 2009 700+ words
...in the earliest stages of breast cancer reduced overall frequency...treatments to reduce the spread of breast cancer. "While the primary tumor causes significant illness...accounts for over 90 percent of breast cancer-related deaths. There...
- New breast cancer findings from Maastricht University published.
- Newspaper article from: Cancer Weekly September 8, 2009 700+ words
...underwent a sentinel-node biopsy for breast cancer before 2006 and had breast cancer with favorable primary-tumor characteristics and isolated tumor...scientists in Netherlands report (see also Breast Cancer). "with node-negative disease...
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- Newspaper article from: Blood Weekly April 16, 2009 700+ words
...expressed in primary breast cancer tumors, yet it...metastasis. "Breast cancer deaths are caused...metastasis, not by the primary tumor," explained Carraway...the release of breast cancer cells from the primary tumor and then inhibiting...
- Experimental agent reduces breast cancer metastasis to bone.
- Newspaper article from: NewsRx Health & Science November 22, 2009 700+ words
...the earliest stages of breast cancer decreased metastatic tumor...drug therapies to reduce breast cancer metastasis. "While the primary tumor causes significant illness...for over 90 percent of breast cancer-related deaths. There...
Source: HighBeam Research, Watch out for second primary tumors in breast Ca patients:...