Breast cancer most often begins in these ducts. Cancer develops when duct cells begin to grow uncontrollably, invading surrounding tissue or spreading to other parts of the body. Cancer that begins in skin or tissue that sur...
BMC CancerSeneviratne S, Lawrenson R, Harvey V, et al. Stage of breast cancer at diagnosis in New Zealand: impacts of socio-demographic factors, breast cancer screening and biology. BMC Cancer. 2016;16:129.Seneviratne S, Lawrenson R, Harvey V, Ramsaroop R, Elwood M, Sarfati D, et al....
After her grandfather died of cancer, along with a number of patients while she was in medical school, Hoyos Velez decided to dedicate her career to working on treatments for it. An assistant professor specializing in breast oncology at Baylor College of Medicine, her research is focused specific...
Background The Quality Audit (BQA) of Breast Surgeons of Australia and New Zealand includes a broad range of data and is the largest New Zealand (NZ) breast cancer (BC) database outside the NZ Cancer Registry. We used BQA data to compare BC survival by ethnicity, deprivation, remoteness,...
Breast pain is extremely common, and most women experience it at some time in their life. Sometimes women worry that sore breasts may be one of the early symptoms of breast cancer. MORE Breast Lumps It can be frightening finding a breast lump, but it is important to remember than nine out...
Worldwide, breast cancer is the leading cause of cancer-related deaths in women. Breast cancer is a heterogeneous disease characterized by different clinical outcomes in terms of pathological features, response to therapies, and long-term patient surviva
Distribution of breast cancer patients by body mass index and ethnicity (n=1049). Maori and Pacific distributions significantly different from NZ European (P< 0.001); see text Full size image The proportion of obese (BMI 30+) patients changed little by age or menopausal status, and did not ...
Trastuzumab provisionally approved for early breast cancer in NZInpharma Weekly -doi:10.2165/00128413-200615310-00049NoneReactions Weekly
FULL PAPER British Journal of Cancer (2014) 110, 1891–1897 | doi: 10.1038/bjc.2014.66 Keywords: male breast cancer; female breast cancer; epidemiology Breast cancer: trends in international incidence in men and women E Kreiter1, A Richardson*,2, J Potter3 and Y Yasui1 1Department of ...
Targeting erbB Pathways in Breast Cancer: Dual Kinase Inhibition for Brain Metastasis and Prevention of p185HER2/Neu Tumor Development Goel PN, Katsumata M, Qian W, Mathur S, Ji MQ, Samanta A, Grover P, Sgouros G, Chang JC, Greene MI ...