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  1. Case 22-2020: A 62-Year-Old Woman with Early Breast Cancer during the

    Iwata H, Masuda N, Yamamoto Y, et al. Validation of the 21-gene test as a predictor of clinical response to neoadjuvant hormonal therapy for ER+, HER2-negative breast cancer: the TransNEOS study ...

  2. Pam's breast cancer story

    Pam was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2021 at the age of 67. Pam shared her story with us in March 2021. ... Search our clinical trials database for all cancer trials and studies recruiting in the UK. Cancer Chat forum. Talk to other people affected by cancer. Nurse helpline 0808 800 4040.

  3. Case Study: Breast cancer patient

    Hepin* had been diagnosed with triple negative breast cancer late in 2014, before going on to have surgery. Her treatment was initially successful, and for a number of years she led an active lifestyle. But in May 2018 she started to notice a change. 'I was feeling more tired than usual - yawning and flagging easily,' she explains.

  4. The Generations Study

    The Breast Cancer Now Generations Study, launched in 2004, tracks 100,000 UK women for 40 years to uncover causes of breast cancer, offering prevention insights. ... The study involves 100,000 women of different ages and backgrounds in the UK. Some of them will develop breast cancer, but others won't. And researchers will try to understand ...

  5. Breast cancer stories

    Read about people's experiences of being diagnosed with breast cancer, ... Search our clinical trials database for all cancer trials and studies recruiting in the UK. Cancer Chat forum. ... Cancer Research UK is a registered charity in England and Wales (1089464), Scotland (SC041666), the Isle of Man (1103) and Jersey (247). ...

  6. Breast cancer patient stories

    Patients' stories. Taking tamoxifen. Laura was first diagnosed with breast cancer at the age of 34, when her daughter Megan was 3½ and her son Jack was just 5 months old. "Being diagnosed with breast cancer twice by the age of 37 was challenging, but life took on a different meaning when I was diagnosed for a third time in December 2007 aged ...

  7. New evidence for shorter early breast cancer treatment

    Breast cancer is the most common type of cancer in the UK, with around 55,000 people being diagnosed every year. ... the NIHR funded several awards investigating how well trastuzumab works as a treatment for early HER2 breast cancer. One such study is the £1.6 million HER2-RADiCAL, ... Latest case studies. Furthering your career as a Clinical ...

  8. PDF Factors affecting access to treatment of early breast cancer: Case

    Roche on the topic of early breast cancer. This qualitative study uses desk research and key informant ... breast cancer. To make the case for investment in new technologies that will improve diagnosis and ... estimated that the overall cost of breast cancer care to the UK health system was £542 million in hospital

  9. Trends in incidence, prevalence, and survival of breast cancer in the

    This study describes United Kingdom (UK) secular trends in breast cancer from 2000 to 2021 for both sexes. We describe a population-based cohort study using UK primary care Clinical Practice ...

  10. A case-control study to evaluate the impact of the breast screening

    Sample size calculations for the pilot study showed that, assuming an OR for breast cancer mortality of 0.7 and a number of discordant pairs of 33%, two controls per case with 800 breast cancer deaths and 1600 controls would confer more than 90% power to detect such an effect size at the 5% significance level using a two-sided test. 10 As the ...

  11. A case-control study to evaluate the impact of the breast screening

    1 INTRODUCTION. In the UK, breast cancer accounts for 31% of all new female cancers diagnosed each year, with breast cancer incidence increasing by 4% in the last decade in the UK, and prior to that increasing dramatically worldwide in the latter half of the twentieth century. 1, 2 Despite the continued rise in breast cancer incidence, Mortality from breast cancer is declining. 3 This decline ...

  12. Use of hormone replacement therapy and risk of breast cancer: nested

    Objective: To assess the risks of breast cancer associated with different types and durations of hormone replacement therapy (HRT). Design: Two nested case-control studies. Setting: UK general practices contributing to QResearch or Clinical Practice Research Datalink (CPRD), linked to hospital, mortality, social deprivation, and cancer registry (QResearch only) data.

  13. The Human and Financial Cost of Breast Cancer

    Take a read of The Human and Financial Cost of Breast Cancer case study. Toggle navigation. Home; About Us . Meet the Team; Our Work with NICE ... The Human and Financial Cost of Breast Cancer Download Now. Subscribe to Our Mailing List. Subscribe. ... University of York, Heslington York, YO10 5NQ . Phone : +44 (0)1904 323620. Email : yhec@york ...

  14. Factors affecting access to treatment of early breast cancer: Case

    RAND Europe conducted a study on the societal impact of early breast cancer, divided into three interconnected phases. The third phase was a qualitative study assessing the factors affecting access to and delivery of treatment for early breast cancer in a selection of countries, as well as a supra-national overview.

  15. Risk of dying from early invasive breast cancer

    That wouldn't be the case without research; or the people who make research possible. ... That's not the only area where we need to keep up the pressure on breast cancer. This study shows that 6 in 10 women diagnosed today have a risk of dying from breast cancer within 5 years of 3% or less, but there are still groups of women who face much ...

  16. Research and clinical trials for breast cancer

    Search our clinical trials database for all cancer trials and studies recruiting in the UK. Talk to other people affected by cancer. Questions about cancer? Call freephone 9 to 5 Monday to Friday or email us. Research is looking into all aspects of breast cancer. Find out about the latest UK breast cancer research and clinical trials, and how ...

  17. Use of hormone replacement therapy and risk of breast cancer: nested

    Objective To assess the risks of breast cancer associated with different types and durations of hormone replacement therapy (HRT). Design Two nested case-control studies. Setting UK general practices contributing to QResearch or Clinical Practice Research Datalink (CPRD), linked to hospital, mortality, social deprivation, and cancer registry (QResearch only) data. Participants 98 611 women ...

  18. PDF The Human and Financial Cost of Breast Cancer

    Case Study Providing Consultancy and Research in Health Economics Contact Us [email protected] Telephone: +44 (0) 1904 323620 The Human and Financial Cost of Breast Cancer Breast Cancer Now commissioned YHEC to research the human and financial cost of breast cancer in the UK to inform materials the charity uses to engage stakeholders such

  19. Breast cancer patient experiences through a journey map: A qualitative

    Breast cancer is the most common cancer and the one that associates the highest mortality rates among Spanish women, with 32,953 new cases estimated to be diagnosed in Spain in 2020 [ 1 ]. Thanks to early diagnosis and therapeutic advances, survival has increased in recent years [ 2 ]. The 5-year survival rate is currently around 85% [ 3, 4 ].

  20. Combined and progestagen-only hormonal contraceptives and breast cancer

    Methods and findings. Hormonal contraceptive prescriptions recorded prospectively in a UK primary care database (Clinical Practice Research Datalink [CPRD]) were compared in a nested case-control study for 9,498 women aged <50 years with incident invasive breast cancer diagnosed in 1996 to 2017, and for 18,171 closely matched controls.

  21. Case 1: 48-Year-Old Patient With HER2+ Metastatic Breast Cancer

    Adam M. Brufsky, MD, PhD: Let's talk about this case. This is a 48-year-old woman who presented to her primary care physician a number of years ago with a lump in her breast. She had a 4.4-cm left breast mass and 3 palpable axillary lymph nodes. Her ultrasound and mammogram confirmed these physical findings.

  22. Combined and progestagen-only hormonal contraceptives and breast cancer

    Methods and findings: Hormonal contraceptive prescriptions recorded prospectively in a UK primary care database (Clinical Practice Research Datalink [CPRD]) were compared in a nested case-control study for 9,498 women aged <50 years with incident invasive breast cancer diagnosed in 1996 to 2017, and for 18,171 closely matched controls. On ...

  23. Current research into breast cancer

    Saving lives through our research. From studying the biology of breast cancer cells in the lab to leading clinical trials testing cutting-edge treatments, our researchers are working hard to ensure more women survive breast cancer. Below are some examples of what our researchers are doing right now. Read more about our researchers.

  24. Postoperative radiotherapy in women with early operable breast cancer

    This report of the long-term follow-up from the Scottish Breast Conservation study shows that, although radiotherapy does initially significantly reduce the overall rates of local recurrence in women with early operable breast cancer (HR 0·39 [95% CI 0·27-0·55]), the curves for local recurrence only differed significantly in years 1-10 ...

  25. Researchers reveal impact of genetic ancestry on breast cancer

    In a recent study published in Nature Medicine, researchers map the diverse cell types present in healthy breast tissue to elucidate the role of genetic ancestry in breast cancer risk. Study ...

  26. New study highlights extent of financial discrimination against cancer

    A new study published today highlights that many of the current 20 million cancer survivors across Europe are being discriminated against in accessing financial services, including loans, mortgages, health and travel insurance. The study has been published today in The Lancet Oncology. Currently, in ...