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April 9, 2018     Breast Cancer     The latest breast cancer news from News Medical

Breast cancer survival linked to muscle mass finds study   Researchers have found that women with breast cancer who have a low muscle mass are less likely to survive stage 2 and 3 cancers. The study titled, “Association of Muscle and Adiposity Measured by Computed Tomography with Survival in Patients with Nonmetastatic Breast Cancer,” appears in the latest issue of the journal JAMA Oncology.       New guidelines from ACR and SBI call for major changes to breast cancer screening process   New American College of Radiology and Society of Breast Imaging breast cancer screening guidelines are the first to recognize that African-American women are at high-risk for the disease and should be screened as such.

Cancers may be detected at smaller size in breasts with implants, study reveals   Breast augmentation with implants does not interfere with the ability to detect later breast cancers--in fact, cancers may be detected at a smaller size in breasts with implants, according to a study in the April issue of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, the official medical journal of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons.         Research finds breast lesions in transmen undergoing mastectomy   The number of transmen seeking gender-confirming surgery has risen in the past decade. In a paper published in the British Journal of Surgery analyzing breast tissue from 344 transmen undergoing mastectomy, breast lesions--either benign or malignant--were present in 166 individuals (48.3%).         Web-based resource helps women with breast reconstruction decisions after mastectomy   A new Psycho-Oncology study indicates that a free web-based decision aid that helps women with breast cancer make decisions regarding reconstruction surgery after mastectomy is likely cost-effective.

New insights into 100-year-old mystery open novel possibilities for breast cancer treatment   New insights into how cancer cells fuel their growth are opening novel possibilities for cancer treatment. A team of researchers at Baylor College of Medicine and Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center has identified a long sought after connection between how cancer cells use the sugar glucose to generate energy - the Warburg pathway - and cancer growth.       Atlanta struggles to meet MLK’s legacy on health care   While public safety commissioner Bull Connor's police dogs in 1963 attacked civil rights protesters in Birmingham, Ala., leaders in Martin Luther King Jr.'s hometown of Atlanta were burnishing its reputation as "the city too busy to hate."       Prostate cancer on the rise and detected late in the UK finds report   As many as 37 percent of all prostate cancers are detected late or in advanced stages in the UK, finds a new report from the charity Orchid. The report suggests that most of these cancers are detected at stages 3 and 4. Statistics show that nearly 47,000 men are diagnosed with prostate cancer annually and 11,000 succumb to the disease each year.       Applications of FISH   Fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) is a genetic technique used to diagnose congenital diseases, infectious disease and cancer.       New insights into breast implant-associated anaplastic large-cell lymphoma   For the past seven years, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has reported on cases of a type of lymphoma associated with breast implants.

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