Breast Cancer News

• Promising Combo for HER2-Positive Breast Cancer Brain Metastases In women with HER2 (ERBB2)-positive breast cancer brain metastases, combination therapy with pyrotinib and capecitabine elicited an intracranial response in a phase 2 trial.
  Reuters Health Information, February 11, 2022
• Breast Cancer Now Leading Cause of Cancer Death in Black Women Breast cancer has overtaken lung cancer as the leading cause of cancer death in Black women, although lung cancer remains the leading cause of cancer death in Black men.
  Medscape Medical News, February 10, 2022
• Trastuzumab Deruxtecan Use in Trials Likely Guided by Inaccurate Assays Standard assays for ERBB2 like the one being used in trials of trastuzumab deruxtecan for breast cancer could lead to misassignment of patients with few or no copies of the protein, researchers say.
  Reuters Health Information, February 09, 2022
• CECR2 Protein Pinpointed as Driver of Breast Cancer Metastases CECR2 is an epigenetic driver of breast cancer metastasis, and inhibiting the protein prevented metastases in mouse models, researchers say.
  Reuters Health Information, February 08, 2022
• Millions in Tax Dollars Flow to Anti-Abortion Centers in US What is clear is that taxpayer funding for the centers has spiked in recent years as more Republican-led states have passed legislation severely limiting access to abortion.
  Associated Press, February 07, 2022
• 'Closing the Care Gap' Campaign Launched on World Cancer Day The new 3-year campaign focuses on "addressing the barriers that prevent people around the world from accessing the cancer care they need."
  Medscape Medical News, February 04, 2022
• Earlier Diagnosis Could Prevent More Than 20% of Cancer Deaths Diagnosing solid cancers before they metastasize could stave off 21% to 28% of cancer deaths over a decade, a population-based study from Australia suggests.
  Medscape Medical News, February 03, 2022
• Biden's 'Cancer Moonshot' About to Be Relaunched In a White House speech, President Joe Biden announced that the cancer moonshot program, which he spearheaded during the Obama administration, is getting ready for another takeoff.
  Medscape Medical News, February 03, 2022
• Home-Based Physical Activity Helps Reduce Cancer Fatigue Offering home-based physical activity interventions alongside frequent counseling could help to reduce fatigue in cancer survivors, concludes a meta-analysis.
  Medscape Medical News, February 02, 2022
• Some US Women Not Getting ET for Curable Breast Cancer A novel study shows large geospatial variations across the United States in endocrine therapy (ET) for early breast cancer, showing that many women are being undertreated.
  Medscape Medical News, January 28, 2022
• Tofacitinib's Cancer, CV Risks Outlined in Older RA Patients Using tofacitinib to treat rheumatoid arthritis increases the risk of developing cancer by 48% vs a TNF inhibitor, according to a safety analysis published in The New England Journal of Medicine.
  Reuters Health Information, January 26, 2022
• Cancer Deaths Continue to Fall in EU, UK, Led by Ovarian Cancer Mortality rates from most major cancers are predicted to continue falling in Europe and the UK in 2022, with a particularly striking reduction in deaths from ovarian cancer.
  Medscape Medical News, January 26, 2022
• Abraxane Still in Short Supply for Cancer Patients Abraxane, an albumin-bound form of paclitaxel used in the treatment of several cancers, is in short supply because of manufacturing delays.
  Medscape Medical News, January 25, 2022
• Depression Screening Aids Referrals for Patients With Breast Cancer Patients with breast cancer who receive depression screening as part of medical oncology checkups are more likely to receive behavioral health referrals than those who don't get screened, a clinical trial finds.
  Reuters Health Information, January 21, 2022
• Siblings of People With Bipolar Disorder Have Higher Cancer Risk Findings from Taiwan suggest an increased cancer risk not only for people with bipolar disorder but for their unaffected siblings too.
  Medscape Medical News, January 19, 2022
• Could Probiotics Reduce 'Chemo Brain' in Breast Cancer Patients? Patients with breast cancer reported fewer symptoms of cognitive impairment associated with chemotherapy when they took a probiotics supplements, reports the first study of its kind.
  Medscape Medical News, January 18, 2022
• New Combo Therapy for Breast Implant–Associated Lymphoma Women who develop breast implant–associated anaplastic large-cell lymphoma can achieve good outcomes with chemotherapy plus brentuximab vedotin.
  Medscape Medical News, January 18, 2022
• Pathological Complete Response Likely Not a Reliable Survival Surrogate in Early Breast Cancer A new meta-analysis suggests that pathological complete response should not be used as a surrogate endpoint in randomized trials of neoadjuvant therapies for early breast cancer.
  Reuters Health Information, January 17, 2022
• BRCA Testing Underused in Women With Ovarian Cancer More than a decade after calls for universal screening for germline BRCA mutations in women with ovarian cancer, it remains underused.
  Medscape Medical News, January 14, 2022
• US Cancer Deaths Continue to Fall, Especially Lung Cancer Latest statistics show that the risk of death from cancer continues to decline from levels seen in the 1990s, leading to millions of cancer deaths having been averted.
  Medscape Medical News, January 12, 2022