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Story 05/17/23

Beyond the headlines: USPSTF screening guidelines, disparities, and mental health

Our May column focuses on the new USPSTF mammography screening guidelines, breast density, pregnancy, effective radiation therapy, and mental health.

Story 05/04/23

How fly fishing helped me heal after breast cancer

After treatment for early-stage breast cancer, Gail R. Campbell found healing through Casting for Recovery, an organization that provides fly fishing retreats for women impacted by breast cancer.

Story 03/30/23

Beyond the headlines: March 2023

In March, we cover news on screening for breast density, the DIEP flap controversy, updates to the TEXT and SOFT trials, disparities in treating LGBTQ+ people, and more. 

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Elacestrant

Elacestrant (Orserdu) is a hormonal therapy used to treat metastatic breast cancer.

Story 12/09/22

Elacestrant on course to gain FDA approval

Elacestrant is poised to move forward as a new option for metastatic hormone receptor-positive, HER2-negative  breast cancer in 2023. New results point to a relationship between the drug’s ...

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Fulvestrant

Fulvestrant (Faslodex) is an estrogen receptor antagonist, or ERA, a class of medicine that stops the activity of estrogen on cancer cells to keep them from growing.

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What is hormonal therapy?

Hormonal therapy for breast cancer interferes with the signals that hormone receptors send to cells and may block estrogen receptors, reduce the amount of estrogen made, or lessen the number of ...

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Toremifene citrate

Toremifene citrate is a hormonal therapy that is FDA approved to treat hormone receptor-positive metastatic breast cancer. It is a SERM, or selective estrogen receptor modulator, a medicine that ...

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Tamoxifen

Tamoxifen is a type of hormonal therapy called a SERM, or selective estrogen receptor modulator, a medicine that prevents estrogen signals from getting to breast cancer cells.

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Ovarian suppression

Ovarian suppression is surgery, radiation therapy or medicine that is used in premenopausal women to stop the ovaries from working.