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Risk factors vary for breast ca, aggressive disease. (Age at First Pregnancy, Disease Diagnosis).
SAN ANTONIO -- Factors that put a woman at increased risk of breast cancer are not the same as those that put breast cancer patients at risk for getting an aggressive form of the disease, Dr. Carmela C. Veneroso reported.
It's well established, for example, that early age at first pregnancy is associated with a reduced risk of breast cancer. Yet among a cohort of 215 women with breast cancer, those who had their first child before age 20 were more than threefold more likely to have an aggressive tumor, Dr. Veneroso said at the annual breast cancer symposium, which was sponsored by the San Antonio Cancer Institute.
Fifty-four percent of women in this study had aggressive breast cancer as defined by tumor grade 3 or 4.
In a multivariate analysis, the odds of having an aggressive tumor increased roughly 3% for each year younger ...
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- News wire article from: Boston Globe (Boston, MA) Henderson, Diedtra February 7, 2007 700+ words
...woman learns she has breast cancer, can predict the...aggressive or less aggressive tumor," Gutman said...be diagnosed with breast cancer, and 40,000 are...Doctors treating breast cancer now rely on Oncotype...
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...stage HER2-positive breast cancer, an aggressive tumor type with high relapse rates...approximately 20%-30% of breast cancer sufferers. According to...surgery for early-stage breast cancer, as an adjuvant therapy...
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