BackgroundIn the United States, black and Hispanic white women with breast cancer present with more advanced stages and have poorer survival rates than
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 in approximately 70–80% of cases if diagnosed in the nascent stages. The...
This article reviews staging of breast cancer and treatment protocols for the disease, then examines several different types of breast cancer. Each type is described in terms of its mammographic, sonographic and histologic appearance, along with its treatment and prognosis. The author concludes with ...
Summary Symptoms Duration Call doctor Prognosis More info What is breast cancer?Breast cancer is the uncontrolled growth of abnormal cells that can develop in one of several areas of the breast, including:the ducts that carry milk to the nipple the small sacs that produce milk (lobules) non-...
Breast-conserving surgery followed by radiotherapy is part of standard treatment for early-stage breast cancer. Hypoxia is common in cancer and may affect the benefit of radiotherapy. Cells adapt to hypoxic stress largely via the transcriptional activity
The current evidence indicates that grading has limited value in advanced or metastatic breast cancer (stages III and VI) and grading is not expected to change treatment decisions and therefore need not be considered in these cases. Grade and tumor type The prognostic value of histological grade ...
28,29 Recently, Silber et al29 compared breast cancer survival in black and white women (all stages). After matching for demographic and social factors, the HR for death was 1.54 (95% CI, 1.46-1.62; P < .001) for black women. They estimated that the 5-year survival difference of...
Prognosis of women with stage IV breast cancer depends on detection of circulating tumor cells rather than disseminated tumor cells. Ann Oncol 2008;19: 496 -500.Bidard, F.C.; Vincent-Salomon, A.; Sigal-Zafrani, B.; Dieras, V.; Mathiot, C.; Mignot, L.; Thiery, J.P.; Sastre-Garau...
Distribution of TNM stages of breast cancer per age cohorts. TNM: Tumour, node, metastasis Full size image Fig. 3 Distribution of breast cancer severity according to age cohorts. BC: breast cancer Full size image Data on both HR and HER2 status at the time of BC diagnosis were available fo...
Breast Cancer Research and Treatment (2024) Evaluation of the relationship between Ki67 expression level and neoadjuvant treatment response and prognosis in breast cancer based on the Neo-Bioscore staging system Yurdanur Sullu Leman Tomak Filiz Karagoz Discover Oncology (2023)Download...