by Mashuk Khan | Jul 23, 2023 | Uncategorized
A recent article “Aging a Decade in a Day: Age cutoff bias in adjuvant therapy allocation for early-stage breast cancer” explores the issue of age bias in the allocation of adjuvant therapy for early-stage breast cancer patients. Adjuvant therapy is a type...
by Mashuk Khan | Mar 11, 2023 | News
Oncotype DX is a genetic test that helps to predict the likelihood of breast cancer recurrence in women with early-stage, hormone-receptor-positive, HER2-negative breast cancer. The test analyses the activity of 21 genes in a patient’s tumour tissue sample to...
by Mashuk Khan | Oct 20, 2022 | News
Breast screening using mammograms can detect breast cancer at a very early stage and is offered to women aged 50-70 every 3 years on the NHS. In some countries, such as the USA, breast screening starts at age 40 and is recommended yearly. Breast screening reduces the...
