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Background The average age at presentation of breast cancer in Egypt appears to be a decade earlier than in western countries. Breast cancer is the leading cause of cancer-related deaths in women under 40 years and survival rates for young women with breast cancer are lower than their older ...
Mobile element insertions (MEIs) contribute to genomic diversity, but they can be responsible for human disease in some cases. Initial clinical testing (BRCA1, BRCA2 and PALB2) in a 40-year-old female with unilateral breast cancer did not detect any pathogenic variants. Subsequent reanalysis ...
In February 1999, Judy Garber, MD, discussed a 40-year-old woman whose grandmother, mother, and sister had breast cancer. Both the woman's mother and
While only one in 225 women aged <40 years develops breast cancer, the rate increases to one in 24 for women aged 40–59 years and to one in 14 for women aged 60–79 years [1]. As the population ages and chronic disease survival rates improve, it is expected that the number of ...
Letrozole was stopped in 25 patients due to progressive disease (n ¼ 19), side effects (n ¼ 5), and patient choice (n ¼ 1). Only 12 of 49 deaths were from breast cancer. CONCLUSION: Letrozole is a reasonable alternative in elderly women with early ER/PR-positive invasive breast...
Breast cancer is the second most common malignancy in women (after nonmelanoma skin cancer). In the US, the lifetime risk of a woman developing breast cancer is approximately 13%. The most importan...
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One of the leading causes of death (20.1 per 100,000 women per year), breast cancer is the most prevalent cancer in females. Statistically, 95% of breast cancer are categorized as adenocarcinomas, and 55% of all patients may go into invasive phases; however, it can be successfully treated...
Breast cancer is a disease characterized by the growth of malignant cells in the mammary glands. Breast cancer affects males and females, although women are about 100 times more likely to develop the disease than men.