1. Study finds breast cancer decline linked to decreased hormone use
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... a similar 14.7 per cent annual decline in ER-positive breast cancer nationally from 2001 to 2004 among women age 50 to 69, as shown by a recent analysis from the National Cancer Institute's Surveillance, ...

2. ASCO issues updated recommendations for breast cancer tumor marker testing
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... nodes. The Oncotype DX tumor marker test is recommended for patients with node-negative breast cancer that is ER-positive and/or PR-positive, which is the case for 50 per cent of breast cancer patients. ...

3. Recent declines in breast cancer mortality greatest in women under 70
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... online April 2 in the Journal of Clinical Oncology (JCO). Approximately 75 per cent of breast cancers are ER-positive. The average age of breast cancer diagnosis is 62. Between 1990 and 2003, breast ...

4. Simplified model predicts estrogen receptor-positive breast cancer risk
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... cancers diagnosed within five years by about 20 per cent, the authors report. For women with ER-positive tumors, the simplified model showed only small and insignificant differences with the Gail model ...

5. Chemotherapy has safely improved long-term survival in women with hormone-resistant breast cancer
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... breast cancer is the less common of the two main types of breast cancer. Unlike ER-positive breast cancer, it cannot respond to the normal hormonal treatments. In addition, about two-thirds of the cases ...

6. Variants on chromosome five linked to estrogen receptor-positive breast cancer risk
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... 2q35 and 16q12 are associated with ER-positive tumors, leading them to speculate that "ER-positive and ER-negative tumors have different genetic components to their risks." The two SNPs may influence ...

7. Anti-estrogen drug therapy reduces risk of invasive breast cancer in older women
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... (ER-positive) breast cancers by at least 50 per cent for at least eight years. Most postmenopausal women with breast cancer have this kind of breast cancer. Non-invasive cancers confine themselves to ...

8. Invasive strategy favored for men and high-risk women with ACS
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... with NSTE ACS," lead author Dr. Michelle O'Donoghue, from Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, told Reuters Health. In high-risk (biomarker-positive) women, the invasive strategy was associated with ...

9. Study finds breast cancer decline linked to decreased hormone use
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10. Recent declines in breast cancer mortality greatest in women under 70
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11. Anti-estrogen drug therapy reduces risk of invasive breast cancer in older women
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Tags: [estrogen-receptor(ER),Raloxifene,selective estrogen receptor modulator (SERM),ER-positive,coronary heart disease]  ...