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Mammography exam

to three years before it can be felt. Image credit: shutterstock.com You will stand in front of a special X-ray...

Breast cancer

cancer screening programme, enabling women aged 45–69 to undergo regular preventive examination, and paving the way for...

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European Society of Breast Imaging (EUSOBI)

in the widest sense of the word. Image credit: European Society of Breast Imaging (EUSOBI) The society’s task is t...

Breast cancer epidemiology

(Fig. 1b) or standardized on a certain age standard; the most common ones include the age-standardized world rate (ASR-W,...

Association of Czech Breast Radiologists (AMA-CZ)

the Association: participates in the management and control of Breast Screening Programme, supports the promotion of...


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New recommendations published: screening intervals and more

age credit: shutterstock.com The published recommendations address: how...

Researchers develop comprehensive new way to predict breast cancer risk

age credit: Pixabay (pexels.com) They have a developed a way of calculating the...

Cancer incidence continues to rise: 1 in 5 men, 1 in 6 women

to the latest report from the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC)... age: GLOBOCAN 2018 One in 5 men and one in 6 women worldwide will develop... incidence, International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), GLOBOCAN 2018, lung cancer, breast cancer,...

Breast screening linked to 60 per cent lower risk of breast cancer death in first 10 years

age credit: shutterstock.com The research, using data from Sweden, finds that...

Weight loss linked to lower breast cancer risk for postmenopausal women

age credit: rawpixel.com (pexels.com) Although obesity has been strongly...

Eating foods with low nutritional quality ratings linked to cancer risk in large European cohort

with higher scores on the British Food Standards Agency nutrient profiling system (FSAm-NPS), reflecting a lower nutritional... age credit: Pixabay (pexels.com) Helping consumers make healthier food choices...

Screening mammography is linked to a reduction in breast cancer mortality, a study shows

age credit: shutterstock.com A team of researchers from the School of Public...

CancerSEEK: Generalised screening for multiple cancer types

age credit: Amornthep Srina (pexels.com) In more than 1,000 patients, their... cancer, stomach cancer, pancreatic cancer, oesophageal cancer, colorectal cancer, lung cancer, breast...

Where body fat is carried can predict cancer risk

age credit: Sharon McCutcheon (pexels.com) It shows that adding about 11cm to...

Excess weight linked to 8 more cancer types

reason to maintain a healthy weight as we age. An international team of researchers has identified eight additional types of... age credit: rawpixel.com (pexels.com) Limiting weight gain over the decades... cancer, multiple myeloma, colon cancer, oesophageal cancer, kidney cancer, breast cancer, uterine...

New research confirms obesity link to 11 cancers

age credit: shutterstock.com The study consisted of an umbrella review of 204... cancer risk, oesophageal adenocarcinoma, multiple myeloma, cancers of the gastric cardia, colon,...

Public health in the EU: encouraging developments in the area of national cancer screening programmes

age: ec.europa.eu Vytenis Andriukaitis, Commissioner for Health and Food...

World Cancer Day: highlighting physical activity in the global fight against cancer

the banner “We can. I can.” the day will encourage people to be more active – in every sense – in the fight against a disease tha... age credit: Pixabay (pexels.com) To help spread this message, World Cancer Day...

Increasing breastfeeding worldwide could prevent over 800,000 child deaths and 20,000 deaths from breast cancer every year

age credit: shutterstock.com Just 1 in 5 children in high-income countries are...

New review concludes evidence for alcohol causing cancer is strong

age credit: shutterstock.com This is a stronger statement than the...

Physical activity associated with lower risk of many cancers

age credit: Nathan Cowley (pexels.com) An international team led by Dr....

For breast cancer patients, never too late to quit smoking

age credit: shutterstock.com The study involved more than 20,600 women with...

Breast screening programme effective in preventing some invasive cancers

researchers analysed data on 5,243,658 women aged 50-64 who were screened over a four year period across 84 screening units in...

False-positive mammograms may indicate increased risk of breast cancer later

the United States, about 67 percent of women ages 40 and older undergo screening mammography every one to two years, Henderson...

Prospective study supports use of 21-gene assay to spare chemotherapy in breast cancer

age credit: Martin Lopez (pexels.com) Previous studies have shown the 21-gene...

New method to predict increased risk of non-familial breast cancer

detecting cancer at an early stage, or even predicting who has an increased risk of being affected, the... age credit: Pixabay (pexels.com) In the Western world, approximately one out of...

Mediterranean diet supplemented with olive oil appears to protect against breast cancer

age credit: Pixabay (pexels.com) Breast cancer is the second most common cancer...

Common hormone could help treat breast cancer

molecule. (By Jynto - Own work. This image was created with Discovery Studio Visualizer, CC0, Link) Tumours fuelled by...

Benefits of mammography screening outweigh adverse effects for women aged 50–69 years

screening outweigh adverse effects for women aged 50–69 y... from 16 countries, convened by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), has assessed the cancer-preventive and... age credit: rawpixel.com (pexels.com) A summary of the results, published today...

Family history of breast cancer doesn't mean a poor prognosis for women who develop the disease

Journal of Surgery) [1], offers a positive message for women who may worry about their future in light of a family history of... age credit: Alexander Dummer (pexels.com) About one quarter of breast cancer...

A blood test for early detection of breast cancer metastasis

age credit: Tannim101 - Photograph, iPhone. CC BY 3.0, Link The discovery was...

Men with high oestrogen levels could be at greater risk of breast cancer

age credit: Nathan Cowley (pexels.com) This is the first time a link between...

Genetic screening could improve breast cancer prevention

age credit: Pixabay (pexels.com) Improving the accuracy of risk analysis using...

Breast cancer risk may be increased in women who have first-degree relatives with a history of prostate cancer

age credit: Magda Ehlers (pexels.com) The study’s results indicate that c...

Poor metabolic health increases risk for postmenopausal breast cancer irrespective of BMI

age credit: cowbridgeguide.co.uk. CC BY 3.0, Link “Obesity is a significant r...

Most types of cancer not due to “bad luck”, says IARC

International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), the World Health Organization’s specialised c... age: GLOBOCAN 2012 The study [1], which has received widespread media coverage,... Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), World Health Organization (WHO), cancer...

Vaccine targeting breast cancers produced robust immune response

age credit: Pixabay (pexels.com) “This study builds on extensive studies of m...

Launch of new European Code Against Cancer

International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), the specialized cancer agency of the World... age: European Code Against Cancer Based on the best available scientific... Code Against Cancer, International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), World Health Organization (WHO), European...

Postmenopausal breast cancer risk decreases rapidly after starting regular physical activity

age credit: rawpixel.com (pexels.com) “Twelve MET-h [metabolic equivalent t...

Smoking linked with increased risk of most common type of breast cancer

age credit: Dominika Roseclay (pexels.com) The majority of recent studies...

IARC warns 'cancer burden growing at an alarming pace'

International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), the specialised cancer agency of the World... age: World Cancer Report 2014 Based on the latest statistics on trends in... Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), World Cancer Report 2014, cancer prevention,...

Breast cancer screening

early, thus enabling earlier intervention and management in the hope to reduce morbidity and mortality from a... age credit: shutterstock.com However, not all cancer types are suitable for...

Cancer prevention

age credit: Trang Doan (pexels.com) If you want to lower your risk of...

Number of risky lifestyle factors is associated with an increased risk of some types of breast cancer

age credit: JESHOOTS.com (pexels.com) Previous studies have shown that alcohol,... factors, body mass index, alcoholic beverages, smoking, physical inactivity, menopausal hormone therapy, breast cancer,...

Personalised invitations of Czech citizens to cancer screening programmes

age credit: Lum3n.com (pexels.com) The project of personalised invitations is...

Breast tomosynthesis is not significantly different from standard digital mammography

Norway offers all women aged 50–69 years mammographic screening every 2 years. The researchers asked...

Invitation to cancer screening is an investment which will pay off in the future

Knorová, MUDr. Hana Šustková, Bohumil Seifert (Image credit: IBA MU) Guarantors of Czech cancer screening programmes,...

EUROCARE-5: Survival times of Czech cancer patients are now significantly longer than before

age credit: rawpixel.com (pexels.com) “There has been a major increase in s...

Global cancer burden rises to 14.1 million new cases in 2012: Marked increase in breast cancers must be addressed

International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), the specialized cancer agency of the World... age credit: shutterstock.com The new version of IARC’s online database, G... Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), GLOBOCAN 2012, cancer incidence, cancer...

Scientists find sex hormones and breast cancer link in women under 50

age credit: Artem Beliaikin (pexels.com) The researchers from the University of...

New anti-cancer compound shows promise for breast cancer

age: Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research The researchers, from...

Long term shift work a risk factor for breast cancer

age credit: Caio Queiroz (pexels.com) A number of studies have suggested that...

Early mammograms in young women at increased breast cancer risk may save lives

Familial Cancer [1] show that women under the age of 40 at higher risk of breast cancer who went for mammographic screening had... age credit: Calbert Warner (pexels.com) Leading breast cancer research charity...

Genetic ‘fine tuners’ control body’s own attack against cancer

age credit: CSIRO, CC BY 3.0, Link Looking at 1,300 breast cancer samples,...

Tamoxifen class drugs reduce breast cancer rates by more than a third in women at high risk

model of the tamoxifen molecule. (Image credit: Ben Mills, Own work, Public domain, Link) In the most comprehensive...

Mammograms reveal response to common cancer drug

team looked into mammograms, which are X-ray images of the breast, for an answer. Breast tissue on a mammogram can be broadly...

Scientists find promising new target for aggressive breast cancer

age credit: Johannes Jansson/norden.org, CC BY 2.5 dk, Link Scientists from...

Study examines outcomes of screening mammography for age, breast density, hormone therapy

examines outcomes of screening mammography for age, breast density, hormone... of the frequency of screening mammography to age, breast density and postmenopausal use of hormone therapy (HT) suggests that... age credit: Victor L. (pexels.com) In 2009, the U.S. Preventive Services Task... mammography, screening interval, age, breast density, hormone...

Heart disease risk after breast cancer radiotherapy smaller than previously thought

age credit: Pixabay (pexels.com) The research, by scientists at the University...

Blood test reveals women’s response to breast cancer treatment

age credit: Racheljunewon - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, Link Researchers at the...

Study links cigarette smoking, breast cancer risk

age credit: Marco Lima (pexels.com) The relationship between active cigarette...

Lab research suggests more women could benefit from Herceptin

age credit: Fvasconcellos 02:36, 28 May 2007 (UTC) - From PDB entry 1N8Z. More...

APOBEC3B is an enzymatic source of mutation in breast cancer

age credit: CSIRO, CC BY 3.0, Link The finding could lead to new ways to...

Study finds no evidence to link work stress to cancer risk

age credit: shutterstock.com A total of 12 studies were analysed by experts...

1.5 million premature cancer deaths could be prevented per year if targets set to reduce NCDs are met by 2025

Cancer Control (UICC) and the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) today announced that 1.5 million lives which... age credit: depositphotos.com Currently, 7.6 million people die from cancer... Cancer Control (UICC), International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), World Health Organization (WHO), World...

Better survival rates seen with lumpectomy compared with mastectomy for early breast cancer

age credit: shutterstock.com Lumpectomy combined with radiation is a good...

The Lancet publishes largest ever study on global burden of disease

age credit: shutterstock.com The results show that infectious diseases,...

Inherited gene fault influences breast cancer survival

age credit: shutterstock.com The scientists, funded by Cancer Research UK,...

A simple blood test could be used to detect breast cancer

age credit: shutterstock.com They also hope the blood test could improve...

Post-menopausal women with diabetes at greater risk of breast cancer

age credit: shutterstock.com The study, by researchers at the International...

Breast cancer screening programmes: benefits outweigh harm

age credit: shutterstock.com The results, which are published in a special...

Study highlights potential drug target for one in ten breast cancers

age credit: shutterstock.com This raises the prospect that treatments currently...

Exposure to X-rays raises risk of breast cancer in young women with BRCA faults

age credit: shutterstock.com The international study, part-funded by Cancer...

An active lifestyle helps lower breast cancer risk

age credit: shutterstock.com The research – the largest ever looking at p...

More heart problems with 2 chemo drugs for breast cancer

age credit: shutterstock.com The study is significant because more and more...

World’s largest cancer and lifestyle database revealed

age credit: shutterstock.com World Cancer Research Fund and the American...

Obese and overweight women face increased risk of recurrence of most common type of breast cancer

age credit: shutterstock.com The study’s results suggest that extra body fat c...

Breast cancer patients with high density mammograms do not have increased risk of death

age credit: shutterstock.com In the study of over 9,000 women with a confirmed...

Chemotherapy during pregnancy does not appear to increase complications for newborn infants

age credit: shutterstock.com The study examined a group of more than 400 women...

Plant-based compound slows breast cancer in a mouse model

plants are gaining ground as chemopreventative agents. PEITC has shown to be effective as a chemopreventative agent in mice for...

‘Post-it note’ on breast cancer gene signals risk of disease spreading

age credit: shutterstock.com Cancer Research UK scientists at Imperial College...

‘Master switch’ experimental drug could treat different cancers

age credit: shutterstock.com Cancer Research UK-funded work at The Institute of...

Exercise, even mild physical activity, may reduce breast cancer risk

age credit: shutterstock.com Published early online in CANCER, a peer-reviewed...

Physical activity linked to reduced mortality in breast and colon cancer patients

age credit: shutterstock.com Improvements in cancer treatment and screening...

Scientists re-write rule book on breast cancer in landmark global study

age credit: shutterstock.com Doctors should one day be able to predict survival...

Long-term use of estrogen hormone therapy linked to higher risk for breast cancer

age credit: shutterstock.com “It’s already been confirmed that patients sho...

Metastatic breast cancer uses immune system to spread

age credit: shutterstock.com Fibronectin is a cell-adhesion molecule which is...

Breast cancer and heart disease may have common roots

age credit: shutterstock.com The majority of women with hereditary breast and...

Triple drug combination effective in HER2-positive breast cancer

age credit: shutterstock.com Experts at the San Raffaele Cancer Centre in Milan...

Adolescent alcohol consumption and breast cancer

age credit: shutterstock.com Breast cancer patients often wonder what their... benign breast disease, breast cancer, teenagers, adolescent...

Low levels of alcohol consumption associated with small increased risk of breast cancer

age credit: shutterstock.com "In many studies, higher consumption of alcohol...

Role of fat in assessing breast cancer risk

age credit: shutterstock.com The mammograms of postmenopausal women with breast...

Breast cancer survival rates boost

and the drug Herceptin to treat early-stage breast cancer for women with an aggressive form of the disease could help... age credit: istockphoto.com The research also found that the survival rate for...

First global analysis of breast and cervical cancer estimates 2 million new cases worldwide

age credit: shutterstock.com The report shows that, in 2010, most (51%) of the...

Antibiotic molecule found in bacteria stops breast cancer

age credit: shutterstock.com Scientists at Cancer Research UK's Cambridge...

Drug prolongs lives of patients with hormone-sensitive breast cancer

age credit: shutterstock.com Hormone-blocking drugs such as tamoxifen are often...

Breast screening in the Czech Republic: achievements of the first seven years of the organized programme

age: IBA MU In compliance with the recommendation of the Council of the... screening, coverage, Czech Republic, breast...

Weight has strongest influence on breast cancer hormones in post menopausal women

menopausal women from 13 different studies. Age, type of menopause (natural or caused by surgery to remove ovaries), body mass...

Worse outcome for breast cancer patients with other health problems

age credit: shutterstock.com The other health problems, or 'comorbidities',...

Poorer women less likely to survive breast cancer

breast cancer as they are diagnosed at a later stage which means the best available treatments won’t be as effective... age credit: shutterstock.com ‘The Second All Breast Cancer Report’ is the first ...

Breast cancers found between mammograms more likely to be aggressive

age credit: shutterstock.com Other studies have shown that cancers diagnosed...

New digital method for breast cancer prognosis

age credit: shutterstock.com Currently, a useful factor for deciding the best...

Reasons for poor breast cancer management in developing countries

for poor breast cancer management in developing... age credit: shutterstock.com In low-income countries there is little awareness... cancer management, low-income countries, middle-income...

The future of breast cancer prevention

age credit: shutterstock.com In a review published in the journal Lancet...

Trial results confirm five years of tamoxifen boosts breast cancer survival

age credit: shutterstock.com Of the nearly 3,500 patients took part in the...

Tamoxifen's preventative role

age credit: shutterstock.com The study's results suggest that the benefits of...

Population-based breast cancer screening not necessarily best for poorer countries

solution might be to raise awareness and encourage more women with breast symptoms to seek and receive timely treatment... age credit: shutterstock.com Globally, breast cancer is the most common female...

World Cancer Day 2011: New physical activity guidance can help prevent breast, colon cancers

age credit: shutterstock.com On World Cancer Day 2011, the world's cancer... World Health Organization, International Agency for Research on Cancer, Union for International Cancer...

Hormone therapy at menopause may pose breast cancer risk

age credit: shutterstock.com In this large, prospectively followed cohort of...

Scientists identify avoidable breast cancer risk factors

age credit: shutterstock.com Many risk factors for breast cancer are well...

Yearly mammogram screening for women with a family history of breast cancer could save lives

age credit: istockphoto.com Women with several relatives with breast cancer or...

Radiation fears should not deter women from mammography screening

age credit: shutterstock.com "Recently, there have been reports in the press...

Healthy lifestyle can reduce breast cancer risk even in women with family history

age credit: freestocks.org (pexels.com) According to Dr Robert E Gramling, lead...

Relatives of young breast cancer patients could face increased risks of other cancers

of women diagnosed with breast cancer before the age of 35 are at an increased risk of other cancers even if they do not carry... age credit: shutterstock.com The study, published in the British Journal of...

Calcium deposits could improve breast cancer diagnosis

age credit: shutterstock.com The study, published in the British Journal of...

High-fat diet during puberty linked to breast cancer risk later in life

age credit: shutterstock.com The implications - that a high-fat diet may have...

Drinking alcohol ‘may increase risk of some types of breast cancer’

age credit: shutterstock.com Scientists at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research...

Protein made by breast cancer gene purified

age credit: shutterstock.com The results published online Aug. 22 in the...

Genes associated with aggressive breast cancer

age credit: shutterstock.com The results, published in the journal Clinical...

Breath test could help to detect cancer

age credit: shutterstock.com While these results are only preliminary, the...

Gene target may block breast cancer recurrence and boost survival

age credit: shutterstock.com Scientists based at the Cancer Research UK/MRC...

Women in their forties have lower mammographic tumour detectability

age credit: shutterstock.com Mammography screening outcomes, measured in terms...

New molecular marker could predict if breast cancer patients need chemotherapy

age credit: istockphoto.com The study, part-funded by Cancer Research UK and...

Study does not prove link between household cleaning products and breast cancer

age credit: Nordelch - Own work, CC BY 3.0, Link But Cancer Research UK said...

Men with faulty gene may carry breast cancer risk

age credit: shutterstock.com Carriage of a faulty BRCA2 gene in women...

Fish oil may reduce risk of breast cancer

age credit: Pixabay (pexels.com) Researchers at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer...

New drug for inherited breast and ovarian cancers shows promise in early trials

age credit: shutterstock.com The drug specifically targets cancers caused by...

Cell test could predict DCIS breast cancer recurrence

lives of around 1,400 women and we’d encourage women go when invited.” Reference Pinder SE1, Duggan C, et al. A...

Sea sponge drug may extend advanced breast cancer survival

age credit: shutterstock.com A research team at the University of Leeds and St...

Researchers develop prototype vaccine to prevent breast cancer

age credit: shutterstock.com The researchers found that a single vaccination...

Twice as many lives saved than overdiagnosed by breast screening

age by marijana1 from Pixabay Following controversial debates in recent months...

Osteoporosis drugs may help prevent breast cancer

age by Benjamin Balazs from Pixabay Researchers found that the women who used the...

‘Junk DNA’ could spotlight breast and bowel cancer

age by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay The researchers, led by Dr Cristina Tufarelli...

Study finds isolation and stress may increase breast cancer risk in rats

age by sipa from Pixabay The researchers found that isolation and stress result...

Breast density linked to cancer recurrence

age by Pete Linforth from Pixabay Research due to appear in the journal Cancer...

Study confirms impact of lifestyle on breast cancer risk

age by Mabel Amber, still incognito... from Pixabay Around 45,000 women in the...

Study confirms risks and benefits of long-term tamoxifen treatment

age credit: shutterstock.com However, Cancer Research UK said that the benefits...

Breast screening saves lives, say experts

age by Michelle Maria from Pixabay Researchers at the Nordic Cochrane Centre...

New drug may help women with hereditary breast cancer

age credit: shutterstock.com The scientists recruited 54 women from the UK,...

US scientists identify genes involved in spread of breast cancer to brain

age credit: shutterstock.com The most deadly aspect of cancer is metastasis:...

Walnuts lower tumour rates in cancer-prone mice

age by Pera Detlic from Pixabay The results suggest that chemicals found in...

Test-tube model of breast cancer to replace animal experiments

age by Philippe Delavie from Pixabay Animals play a vital role during research...

‘Gene hunters’ find two new breast cancer genes

age credit: shutterstock.com One genetic region they identified increases...

Red and white wine have ‘no benefit’ for breast cancer risk

age by Photo Mix from Pixabay Researchers at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer...

One or two drinks a day increase the risk of cancer in women

age by Concord90 from Pixabay The researchers found that each daily alcoholic...

Breast cancer rates fall as women abandon HRT

age credit: shutterstock.com In 2000 more than 40 per cent of women aged 50-54...

Breast cancer four times more likely in women with strong family history

age credit: shutterstock.com This is the first time the risk for women who do not...

Coronavirus: verified information and recommendations

age credit: shutterstock.com Coronavirus disease 2019, also called “COVID-19”, i...


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