This content is machine translated Breast Cancer News from the world of prevention, diagnosis and therapy Every year in December, around 7500 breast cancer experts from all over the world meet at the San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium. The highlights of current breast cancer research on…
View Post 3 min This content is machine translated Breast Cancer BRCA mutations and their consequences Breast carcinoma is the most common malignant tumor of the mammary gland. In particular, mutations of the BRCA genes significantly increase the risk of disease, which is why genetic testing…
View Post 2 min This content is machine translated From symptom to diagnosis An interdisciplinary challenge Diagnoses cannot always be made with certainty after taking a medical history and performing clinical and laboratory examinations. Sometimes, further imaging clarification is required.
View Post 4 min This content is machine translated 11th European Breast Cancer Conference in Barcelona Screening interval and lymphonodectomy in breast carcinoma. Does the presence of symptoms at the regular breast cancer screening appointment affect the likelihood of detecting breast cancer between two screening appointments? Is lymphonodectomy always necessary in women with…
View Post 10 min This content is machine translated From high-dose chemotherapy to gene expression. Developments in adjuvant chemotherapy of breast carcinoma. The use of multigene testing is currently limited to the adjuvant setting in HER2-negative luminal breast carcinoma and allows reproducible predictions of recurrence risk. The tests will lead to fewer…
View Post 4 min This content is machine translated Breast Cancer How should action be taken without accurate study results? What is the evidence for primary tumor and metastasis in breast carcinoma? Are there treatment options that will not harm the child if a pregnant woman is found to have…
View Post 2 min This content is machine translated Mamma Screening Between statistics and casuistry Once again, a health policy bombshell has burst in the Sunday press. The Swiss Medical Board questions systematic breast screening. As was to be expected, the tsunami of outrage arrived…
