In a nutshell The study investigated the suitability of using over-the-phone counselling as a method of educating women about BRCA1/2 testing. Some background In recent years many risk factors associated with developing hereditary (inherited) breast and ovarian cancers (HBOC) have been identified, for example the BRCA 1/2 genes. Identifying women...
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In a nutshell In this study chemotherapy and Tamoxifen were compared to Tamoxifen alone as complementary treatments after surgery for breast cancer. The main finding was that better results are obtained by adding chemotherapy. Some background Tamoxifen is a drug used for tumors which require the female hormone estrogen to grow. It...
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The aim of this paper was to identify if a longer course of chemotherapy was better than a short course. The authors look at how long patients survived with metastatic breast cancer or with no further cancer progression. Breast cancer is called metastatic when it has spread from the breast to other parts of the body such as the lymph nodes, lungs,...
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