Breast cancer is the most common malignancy in women, accounting for about 270,000 cases a year. The average woman has about a 12% chance of developing breast cancer.
Welcome to the Medscape InDiscussion podcast series on breast cancer and HER2. Today, we're going to tackle the topic of central nervous system (CNS) involvement in human epidermal growth factor receptor (HER2)–positive breast cancer, trying to understand both the biology and managing patients ...
Breast and prostate cancer online discussion boards: a thematic analysis of gender differences and similarities. J Health Psych 2007;12: 103-14.Gooden, R. J., & Winefield, H. R. (2007). Breast and prostate cancer online discussion boards: A thematic analysis of gender differences and ...
Discussion Women are increasingly exposed to breast density information yet breast density knowledge and its influence on attitudes toward pre-operative breast cancer imaging after a breast cancer diagnosis are poorly understood. Among a population of women who recently had a breast cancer diagnosis, we...
Despite multidisciplinary tumour boards (MTBs), non-compliance with clinical practice guidelines is still observed for breast cancer patients. Computerised clinical decision support systems (CDSSs) may improve the implementation of guidelines, but cases of non-compliance persist. Methods: OncoDoc2, a gu...
Methods Study Design The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act–compliant study protocol was approved by the institutional review boards of participating institutions with a waiver of informed consent. This study compared performance of breast cancer screening before and after introduction of to...
(2005b). Self-help online: An outcome evaluation of breast cancer bulletin boards. Journal of Health Psychology, 10(6), 855–862] studied 91 ... Morton,A.,Lieberman,... - 《Computers in Human Behavior》 被引量: 25发表: 2009年 Content Analysis Of Self-Help Internet Discussion Boards: ...
Discussion Second opinions may substantially affect a breast cancer treatment plan. Recent studies30-33 have focused on second opinions provided by one clinician to another: for example, indications that discordant reads in pathology and radiology reports change treatment in 10% to 25% of cases. Tum...
The tumour immune microenvironment is shaped by the crosstalk between cancer cells, immune cells, fibroblasts, endothelial cells and other stromal components. Although the immune tumour microenvironment (TME) serves as a source of therapeutic targets, it is also considered a friend or foe to tumour-...
Inequitable access to personalized breast cancer screening and prevention may compound racial and ethnic disparities in outcomes. The Breast Cancer Personalized Risk Assessment, Education and Prevention (B-PREP) program, located within the Brigham and Wo