by Mashuk Khan | Jul 23, 2023 | News
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...
by admin | Dec 23, 2021 | News
Sentinel lymph node biopsy is routinely performed during breast cancer surgery. This is the analysis of the first lymph node in the underarm to check if cancer has spread or not. In some breast cancer units, it may take up to 4 weeks to process the sentinel node in...
