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To Remove or Not to Remove, Scientists Report on Signs That May Guide Lymph Node Decisions
By Laura Beil

A tumor's size, degree of vascular infiltration, and other distinctions may help predict whether lymph nodes need to be removed and tested, which can provide a roadmap for surgery, scientists reported at SABCS... [MORE]

What is the I-SPY trial and what are the early results telling us about how to individualize therapy for breast cancer patients? [PLAY VIDEO]

Laura Esserman, MD director of the Carol Franc Buck Breast Care Center; co-leader, Breast Oncology Program, Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California, San Francisco

• Targeting EGFR in Triple-Negative Breast Cancer: As the pathobiology of breast cancer has been studied, the relevance of specific molecules to the development and progression of the disease has grown clearer... [MORE]

• Ten Years of Tamoxifen May Be Better than Five, but Questions Remain: Early results indicate that breast cancer survivors who take tamoxifen for longer than five years appear to have a lower rate of recurrence... [MORE]

SURVIVOR STORY

Lillie Shockney
Surviving and Thriving
Lillie Shockney, RN, is proud of her bilateral breast reconstruction. "I told my husband that if I died during the surgery to have them go ahead and finish it, and then have an open casket with me topless," she says, laughing... [MORE]

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OTHER RELATED COVERAGE

Stem Cells Used to Fix Breast Defects
(Associated Press)

Under Breast Cancer Radar; Study: Men's Genetic Risk Often Ignored

(The Chicago Tribune)

	>> Debu Tripathy, MD EDITOR-IN-CHIEF, CURE & HEAL MAGAZINES Several insights into the origins of breast cancer were provided at Friday's session. The relationship of diet and weight in the development of cancer remains obscure... [MORE]
	>> Kathy LaTour EDITOR-AT-LARGE, CURE & HEAL MAGAZINES This morning I went to hear Charles Loprinzi, MD, from the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. Dr. Loprinzi focuses his research on the side effects of treatment, things like... [MORE]
	>> Karen Patterson MANAGING EDITOR, HEAL MAGAZINE Amid all the talk of receptors and ligands, numbers and nodes, and treatments and toxicities, one of the most charming events of the meeting came at Thursday night's Brinker Award for Scientific Distinction dinner... [MORE]

What improvements have been made in selecting who we give chemotherapy to for early-stage breast cancer? [PLAY VIDEO]

Barbara Haley, MD medical oncologist and breast cancer specialist, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center

COMING TOMORROW

Do bisphosphonates have a role in preventing metastases?

Advances in breast cancer imaging

Advocates share their knowledge with others

CURE and Heal would like to give a special thanks to the following non-profit partners
for making this information available to their constituents:
American Cancer Society • People Living with Cancer
HER2 Support • Inflammatory Breast Cancer Research Fund • Men Against Breast Cancer
National Breast Cancer Coalition • Pink-Link