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Should Women Stop HT Temporarily Before Undergoing Screening Mammography?Free

Suspending HT for 1 or 2 months did not lower mammography recall rates, but did increase likelihood of experiencing vasomotor symptoms.

SUMMARY AND COMMENT

Still Looking for Effective Nonhormonal Hot Flash Therapies

Acupuncture, Chinese herbs, and other nonestrogenic therapies resulted in modest improvements in hot flash frequency; head-to-head comparisons with estrogen are lacking.

ASCO 2009 Report: Breast CancerFree

New trials in triple-negative and HER2-negative disease

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Are Anthracyclines Justified for Breast Cancer?

Most patients are not likely to benefit from anthracycline-based adjuvant chemotherapy.

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Stiff-Person Syndrome with Anti-Amphiphysin Antibodies

  • Neurology

A large study of patients with stiff-person syndrome refines the clinical features of patients with anti-amphiphysin antibodies, highlighting the very high frequency of breast cancer.

SUMMARY AND COMMENT

Biopsies of New Metastatic Lesions in Breast Cancer

Knowledge of discordance in molecular markers between primary tumors and metastatic lesions altered disease management in 20% of patients.

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Brain Metastases in Triple-Negative Breast Cancer

Cumulative incidence at 5 years was nearly 10%.

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Vitamin D and HealthFree

Do we have enough? How do we get more? What systems are affected?

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Adjuvant Chemotherapy in Older Patients with Breast CancerFree

Capecitabine was inferior to standard chemotherapy.

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Is Prophylactic Bilateral Oophorectomy Associated with All-Cause Mortality?

Bilateral oophorectomy was associated with elevated hazard ratios for all-cause mortality, fatal plus nonfatal coronary heart disease, and stroke.

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