September 21, 2020

Mother and Son Draw Hope, Healing From Shared Cancer Treatment

THURSDAY, Sept. 17, 2020 -- Families bond over lots of shared experiences -- but one Leslie Seigel and her adult son, Josh, never expected to share was battling cancer.

Soon after Leslie finished chemotherapy for an aggressive form of breast cancer, however, Josh found himself waging his own battle with testicular cancer.

September 2, 2020

Delayed Surgery for Early Breast Cancer Won't Harm Survival: Study

MONDAY, Aug. 17, 2020 -- Women with early-stage breast cancer whose surgery has been postponed during the coronavirus pandemic need not worry about the delay, new study findings suggest.

A longer time from diagnosis to surgery doesn't affect overall survival of women with early-stage tumors, the researchers found. They also said a delay didn't lower survival among women with estrogen-sensitive, early-stage breast cancer who received neoadjuvant endocrine therapy before their surgery.

August 21, 2020

Can Women With Early Breast Cancer Skip Post-Op Radiation?

THURSDAY, Aug. 20, 2020 -- Instead of weeks of radiation following a lumpectomy, a new study shows that many women with early breast cancer do just as well with only a single dose of targeted radiation that is given during their surgery.

"Breast cancer outcomes, in terms of cancer coming back, breast cancer survival, dying from breast cancer, being mastectomy-free, being free of disease elsewhere in the body, all are exactly the same as the usual six weeks of radiation," Dr. Jayant Vaidya, a professor of surgery and oncology at University College London (UCL), said of the single-dose therapy.

August 17, 2020

Mammograms in 40s Can Save Women's Lives, Study Finds

WEDNESDAY, Aug. 12, 2020 -- Adding to an ongoing debate over the timing of mammography, a new British study finds that screening women aged 40 to 49 for breast cancer saves lives, with only small increases in overdiagnosis.

"This is a very long-term follow-up of a study which confirms that screening in women under 50 can save lives," researcher Stephen Duffy, from Queen Mary University of London, said in a university news release.

August 9, 2020

Cancer Diagnoses Plunge as Americans Avoid Screening During Pandemic

TUESDAY, Aug. 4, 2020 -- As COVID-19 continues to impact nearly all aspects of American health care, researchers warn that the United States has seen a troubling drop in cancer diagnoses since the pandemic began.

The drop is not being attributed to a downturn in cancer incidence, but rather a COVID-driven reluctance to get screened.