cancer is the most common cancers affecting women. Every year in the Czech Republic, almost 8,000 new cases of breast cancer and...
a mammogram is uncomfortable for some women. Some women find it painful. A mammogram takes only a few moments, though, and...
to more than 144 cancers per 100,000 women in the Czech population (Figure 1, incidence curve).
Each year, there are...
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how often women of different age ranges, with no... Cancer (ECIBC), breast cancer screening, recommen...
with other factors such as weight, age at menopause, alcohol consumption and use of hormone replacement therapy.
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incidence continues to rise: 1 in 5 men, 1 in 6... GLOBOCAN 2018
One in 5 men and one in 6 women worldwide will develop cancer during their lifetime, and...
men who take part in breast screening have a significantly greater benefit from... research, using data from Sweden, finds that women who chose to participate in an organised breast cancer screening programme had...
loss linked to lower breast cancer risk for postmenopausal... a study of postmenopausal women, participants who lost weight had a lower risk of developing... examining whether weight loss might reduce postmenopausal women’s risk have provided mixed results. To examine the issue, Rowan C... cancer risk, weight loss, postmenopausal...
European authorities are considering implementing a unique nutrition label as a system to reflect the nutritional quality of...
in breast cancer mortality in New Zealand women in order to either corroborate or negate a causal association with service...
is the first study comparing adult body measurements in such a standardised way for obesity-related cancers. Using a novel...
stomach, liver, gall bladder, pancreas, ovary, meningioma (a type of brain tumour), thyroid cancer and the blood cancer multiple... associated with excess weight were similar for men and women and, when data were available, were consistent across geographic... cancer, pancreatic cancer, ovarian cancer, meningioma, thyroid cancer, multiple myeloma, colon cancer, oesophageal cancer,...
49 publications that analysed the obesity measurements (such as body mass index, weight gain, and waist circumference) and 36...
health in the EU: encouraging developments in the area of national cancer screening... implementation report on the 2003 Council Recommendation on cancer screening, published... focusing our efforts. The Council’s recommendation and the Commission’s quality assurance guidelines have led to most EU c...
to their wellbeing either during or after treatment. The ‘We can. I can.’ campaign is in its second year and we hope to build on t...
is also a strong economic case for investment in promoting breastfeeding.
Modelling conducted for the Series estimates...
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This is a stronger statement than the long-recognised association between alcohol and cancer. An...
level of physical activity that experts recommend.
Participants were followed for a median of 11 years. During this time,...
menting that it’s never too late to quit smoking, a large study of breast... study involved more than 20,600 women with breast cancer, and is one of the largest studies of survival outcomes...
for and treatment of an early form of breast cancer has been found to prevent subsequent... in the UK each year and the main form of treatment is surgery followed by radiotherapy.
Ongoing public debate about the harm...
men with a history of a false-positive mammogram result may be at increased risk... the United States, about 67 percent of women ages 40 and older undergo screening mammography every one to two years,...
evidence yet that a 21 gene assay can identify women with breast cancer who can be spared chemotherapy, reports the New England... Trial Assigning Individualised Options for Treatment (TAILORx) study.
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Western world, approximately one out of ten women will develop breast cancer at some point in life. In most cases the disease is...
diet supplemented with olive oil appears to protect against breast... beneficial effect of a Mediterranean diet supplemented with extra-virgin olive oil in the primary prevention of breast cancer.... and this has been linked to several elements of the ‘Western’ lifestyle although the only clear epidemiological evidence i...
female hormone progesterone added to their treatment, according to Cancer Research UK-funded research published in Nature today... which cause cancer cells to grow.
Women whose tumours have progesterone receptors as well are known to have a better...
screening outweigh adverse effects for women aged 50–69 y... Cancer Screening [2] in light of recent improvements in treatment outcomes for late-stage breast cancer and new data on screening...
cancer doesn't mean a poor prognosis for women who develop the... new large study finds that women who are diagnosed with breast cancer and have a family history of the disease... cancer (POSH) study, which included 2850 women under age 41 years who were diagnosed with breast cancer and treated in the...
known as cell-free circulating DNA – small fragments of genetic material from different cells which circulate in the blood. It is...
Men with high oestrogen levels could be at greater risk of breast... Men with naturally high levels of the female hormone oestrogen may have a greater... to breast, womb and ovarian cancers in women.
Men with the highest levels of oestrogen were two and a half times more...
improve doctors’ ability to work out which women are at increased risk of developing breast cancer, a major study of more than... ways – for instance by offering high-risk women increased monitoring, personalised advice and preventative therapies.
The...
cancer risk may be increased in women who have first-degree relatives with a history of prostate... School of Medicine in Detroit, studied 78,171 women who enrolled in the Women’s Health Initiative Observational Study between 1993 ...
metabolic health increases risk for postmenopausal breast cancer irrespective of... menopausal women who were metabolically unhealthy, as assessed by insulin... for a number of types of cancer including postmenopausal breast cancer,” said Marc J. Gunter, PhD, associate professor of cancer ... menopausal breast cancer, insulin resistance, breast cancer...
than either hereditary or external environmental factors.”
For many cancers, the authors argue for a greater focus on the ...
to effectively elicit immune responses in women with metastatic breast cancer, according to a study published in Clinical... in patients who have completed standard treatment regimens, such as chemotherapy, surgery, irradiation, to minimise the risk of...
weight and being physically active. It also recommends participation in organized programmes for bowel, breast, and cervical cancer...
menopausal breast cancer risk decreases rapidly after starting regular physical... menopausal women who in the past four years had undertaken regular physical... with the World Cancer Research Fund recommendations of walking at least 30 minutes daily,” said Agnès Fournier, PhD, a re... menopausal women, breast cancer risk, physical...
women who smoke and have been smoking a pack a day for a decade or more have a... smoking and breast cancer risk among young women have found that smoking is linked with an increased risk; however, few studies...
pace and emphasises the need for urgent implementation of efficient prevention strategies to curb the...
thus enabling earlier intervention and management in the hope to reduce morbidity and mortality from a... type is relatively high,
an effective treatment for early stages of this cancer type is available,
an affordable test...
a demonstrable and direct impact on the development of malignant... consumed at all, limit alcoholic drinks to 2 for men and 1 for women a day.
Since the 1997 report, the evidence that...
men with risky lifestyle factors have an increased risk of breast cancer overall.... studies have shown that alcohol, postmenopausal body mass index (BMI), and menopausal hormone therapy are risk factors... beverages, smoking, physical inactivity, menopausal hormone therapy, breast cancer, molecular...
to participate in colorectal cancer screening (men and women), as well as breast cancer screening and cervical cancer screening... rather specific when it comes to making appointments with medical specialists:
Clinical examination of breasts
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breast tomosynthesis is an advancement of mammography, and has the potential to overcome limitations of standard...
to cancer screening is an investment which will pay off in the... and the Office of Member of the European Parliament Dr. Pavel Poc. The workshop was held under the auspices of Martin Holcát, MD, ... in Prague two days after the official announcement by the Czech Ministry of Health that a project of personalised invitation to...
between European countries despite major improvements in cancer diagnosis and treatment during the first decade of the 21st... cancer (women...
2012 reveals striking patterns of cancer in women and highlights that priority should be given to cancer prevention and control...
find sex hormones and breast cancer link in women under... and an increased risk of breast cancer in premenopausal women, according to a study published in The Lancet Oncology... on hormone levels in the blood of around 760 premenopausal women with breast cancer, and around 1700 without – from seven earlier s... menopausal women, risk of breast cancer, oestradiol, oestrone, androstenedione,...
help them to survive chemotherapy and other treatments.
“Drs Vaillant and Merino looked at the effect of adding BH3-mimetics to t...
published in the journal Occupational and Environmental Medicine... and some meta-analyses have suggested that women who work night shifts may be at as much as 40-50% higher risk of developing...
mammograms in young women at increased breast cancer risk may save... in the journal Familial Cancer [1] show that women under the age of 40 at higher risk of breast cancer who went for mammographic... ever study into mammographic screening in women under 40 with an increased risk of breast cancer compared to the general...
this response.
MicroRNAs are short fragments of RNA – a molecule related to DNA – that act as tiny switches inside cells, ...
breast cancer rates by more than a third in women at high... breast cancer incidence by 38 per cent in women at an increased risk of the disease according to a Cancer Research UK study... breast cancer would be prevented for every 42 women who took the drug for five years and followed for a further...
which appears white on a mammogram, during treatment. Women who show a pronounced reduction in breast density during tamoxifen... a course of five years to prevent relapse in women who have completed their primary breast cancer treatment. However, no method...
men with triple-negative breast cancer are more likely to have high levels of the... disease.
They found that over half of these women had high levels of the MET biomarker. The MET protein plays an important role...
mammography to age, breast density and postmenopausal use of hormone therapy (HT) suggests that woman aged 50 to 74 years who... mammography, rather than the previously recommended mammography every one to two years, be performed for women ages 50 to 74,...
and in Scandinavia, looked at over 2,000 women treated with radiotherapy in Denmark and Sweden. They found that the risk of...
test reveals women’s response to breast cancer t... how well a woman’s cancer is responding to treatment, according to a new Cancer Research UK study published in the New England... Cambridge took regular blood samples from 30 women with advanced breast cancer that had spread.
They used three biomarkers...
with increased breast cancer risk for women who initiate smoking before first birth. The study, which appears online in... epidemiology, analyzed data from 73,388 women in the American Cancer Society’s Cancer Prevention Study II (CPS-II) Nutrition ...
research suggests more women could benefit from... also known as trastuzumab, is often given to women with breast cancers that test positive for high levels of a protein known as...
5700 incident cancer events in 116 000 European men and women BMJ DOI:...
must serve to galvanise our efforts in implementing the World Health Organization’s (WHO) ‘25 by 25’ target,” said Dr Christo...
in the efficacy of breast-conserving treatments even among patients with aggressive, early disease... combined with radiation is a good treatment choice for women with early breast cancer; however, over the past 10 years, a...
death and disability worldwide.
Since 1970, men and women worldwide have gained slightly more than ten years of life...
gene fault influences the chances of some women surviving breast cancer. It also increases the risk of women developing a... funded by Cancer Research UK, found that women with the fault, and who had the oestrogen-receptor-positive form of breast...
also hope the blood test could improve treatment by detecting whether breast cancer patients are likely to relapse and what...
menopausal women with diabetes at greater risk of breast... men with type II diabetes are nearly 30 per cent more likely to get breast cancer,... across four continents and found that post-menopausal women with type II diabetes had a 27 per cent increased risk of breast... II diabetes, breast cancer, post-menopausal...
results, which are published in a special supplement of The Journal of Medical Screening today (Thursday), show that for every...
raises the prospect that treatments currently being developed to inhibit this key protein – called Transforming G...
X-rays raises risk of breast cancer in young women with BRCA... men with faults in BRCA genes are more likely to develop breast cancer if they are... by Cancer Research UK, looked at almost 2,000 women with BRCA faults in the Netherlands, France and the UK between 2006 and 2009...
looked at over 8,000 breast cancer cases in women. They found that the group who were the most physically active were 13 per...
men who have breast cancer and are treated with two chemotherapy drugs may... study is significant because more and more women are surviving longer with breast cancer, so it's becoming a chronic disease,...
that lead to potentially life-saving recommendations to reduce people’s cancer risk. It is hugely important to our u...
and overweight women face increased risk of recurrence of most common type of breast... of breast cancer despite optimal cancer treatment, according to a new study published early online in Cancer [1], a... breast cancer to spread and recur despite treatment.
Women who are obese when they are diagnosed with breast cancer have an...
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In the study of over 9,000 women with a confirmed diagnosis of breast cancer, high mammographic density was not...
study examined a group of more than 400 women from across Europe who were diagnosed with early-stage breast cancer while...
isothiocyanate (PEITC) hinders the development of mammary tumors in a mouse model with similarities to human breast cancer... on two diets: a control diet, and a diet supplemented with PEITC for 29 weeks. The researchers performed histopathological...
stops it from protecting against cancer development.
The gene is known to be faulty or missing in a range of cancers including...
switch’ experimental drug could treat different... unique multi-target experimental drug could treat a range of cancer types, according to research published... is exciting research showing that this experimental drug does the job of several drugs all at once, by targeting numerous weak... various cancer types, multi-target experimental...
– either mild or intense and before or after menopause – may reduce breast cancer risk, but substantial weight gain may negate t... Cancer Society, the findings indicate that women can reduce their breast cancer risk by exercising and maintaining their...
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Improvements in cancer treatment and screening have allowed cancer survivors to live...
UK scientists could revolutionise the way women with breast cancer will be diagnosed and treated in the future, by... be able to predict survival more accurately in women with breast cancer based on these new subtypes, and better tailor treatment to... cancer, genetic fingerprint, personalised treatmen...
M.P.H., associate physician at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and assistant professor in medicine at the Breast Cancer Oncology C...
of inflammatory breast cancer cells in three-dimensional culture: A mechanism mediated by IL-8 signaling pathway Cell...
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The majority of women with hereditary breast and ovarian cancer have a mutated form of the BRCA1 or...
have shown that the effect of treating women before surgery with trastuzumab (Herceptin) and docetaxel for HER2-positive... found that adding pertuzumab to a woman's treatment improved the rate at which her cancer completely disappeared by more than...
Berkey, a biostatistician at Brigham & Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston, led a team that investigated...
Y. Chen, M.D., M.P.H., of Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, and colleagues examined the...
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The mammograms of postmenopausal women with breast cancer were compared to controls without cancer. The...
to treat early-stage breast cancer for women with an aggressive form of the disease could help boost survival rates, a...
but the disease still killed 200 000 women in 2010, according to the first global estimates published in The Lancet... most surprising findings was the sharp rise in women of reproductive age in developing countries who are being diagnosed with and...
men with hormone-sensitive breast cancer who take the drug tamoxifen for five... prescribed the drug.
Researchers found that women with hormone-sensitive breast cancer, also known as oestrogen-receptor (ER)...
screening in the Czech Republic: achievements of the first seven years of the organized... the BMC Public Health [1], summarizes the achievements of this preventive... IBA MU
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comorbidities on overall survival among older women diagnosed with breast cancer Journal of the National Cancer Institute DOI:...
women less likely to survive breast... women from deprived areas are less likely to survive breast cancer as they are... in the UK to look at how the impact of treatment and route of diagnosis – either through screening or symptoms presented to a G...
will help give patients a more accurate assessment of how abnormal and aggressive their cancer is and help doctors recommend the... a useful factor for deciding the best treatment strategy for early-stage breast cancer is tumour grade, a score assigned by a...
for poor breast cancer management in developing... for diagnosis and staging, and poor treatment availability, especially for radiotherapy and drug treatments that are... cancer management, low-income countries, middle-income...
could be used to prevent breast cancer in women at high risk of the disease in the same way that statins are used for heart... UK’s Professor Jack Cuzick - agreed that all women with a greater than four per cent above average risk of getting breast cancer...
the cancer was less likely to come back in women who took the drug for five years, compared to two years... cancer came back in around 40 per cent of the women who took tamoxifen for five years, compared to 46 per cent among those who...
taken by certain women as a preventive measure against breast cancer, saves lives and reduces medical... compensate for its side effects in post-menopausal women under age 55 years who have an increased risk of developing...
and middle-income countries (LMICs) to implement population-based mammography screening. But according to an article in The... screening programmes in LMICs is less clear. Women in LMICs have a lower risk of breast cancer but tend to be diagnosed at a...
better services for early detection and treatment of cancer... The World Health Organization's new Global Recommendations on Physical Activity for Health [2] advise that people of all ages can...
therapy at menopause may pose breast cancer... hormone therapy at around the time of menopause is associated with a greater risk of breast cancer compared to starting... this large, prospectively followed cohort of women, those who started hormone therapy five years or more after menopause had... replacement therapy, menopause, breast...
30 percent of postmenopausal breast cancers could be avoided by more exercise and refraining from... for breast cancer are well studied and documented. Thus, scientists are sure by now that early first menstrual period, late...
mammogram screening for women with a family history of breast cancer could save... women younger than 50 years who have a family history of breast cancer a mammogram... credit: istockphoto.com
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fears should not deter women from mammography... Sciences Centre, and professor in the departments of medical biophysics and medical imaging at the University of Toronto. "Our...
can reduce breast cancer risk even in women with family... a healthy lifestyle can help women reduce their risk of breast cancer even if they have a family history of the... by the journal Breast Cancer Research, many women who have a close relative with breast cancer fear their risk for the disease...
male and female relatives of women diagnosed with breast cancer before the age of 35 are at an increased risk of... and other cancers for the relatives of young women diagnosed with the disease.
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- that a high-fat diet may have detrimental effects independent of its effect to cause obesity - could drive new cancer... diet, environmental risk factors, breast...
types of breast cancer are more common among women who regularly drink alcohol... Cancer Research Centre followed 2,944 postmenopausal women, all of whom took part in the wider Women's Health Initiative...
and may also directly promote the development of breast cancer, according to a study published online August 23 in the...
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