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...
Breast cancer (BC) is the most frequently diagnosed cancer among women and the third most common cancer in New Zealand (NZ), with more than 3000 registrations and 600 deaths annually. While survival from BC in NZ is better than many other cancers, Maori women-the indigenous peoples of NZ-...
Says Evangelia Henderson, chief executive, Breast Cancer Foundation NZ: “This is a significant new wellbeing tool for women in New Zealand. The information has been available before but this is a new way of putting it in people’s hands...
In this study, we assessed associations between breast cancer-specific and overall survival, and recurrence, with BMI in a large population-based cohort of women with breast cancer in New Zealand (NZ). Patients were diag- nosed between January 2000 and June 2014 and followed to last follow up...
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...
Older age (>80 years), not undergoing therapeutic surgery and higher comorbidity score were significantly (p<0.01) associated with unstaged cancer. The high proportion of unstaged cancer in the NZCR was noted to have led to an underestimation of the true incidence of metastatic breast cancer by...
Purpose It is well known that bone metastases from breast cancer usually show osteolytic changes. We retrospectively analysed the computed tomography (CT) appearance of bone metastases to quantify the distribution of lytic, mixed and sclerotic changes in a series of patients presenting with neoplastic...
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 survival. Thus, the heterogeneity found in this cancer...
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The overall incidence of male breast cancer is around 1% of all breast cancers and is on the rise. In this review we aim to present various aspects of male breast cancer with particular emphasis on incidence, risk factors, patho-physiology, treatment, prognostic factors, and outcome. ...