Artemis - Breast Cancer Newsletter



	Moderate Alcohol Use Linked to Increase in Breast Cancer Risk Poor Understanding of Coverage Deters Breast Cancer Screening Breast Tumor's Biological Traits Guide Hormone Therapy High Risk of Second Cancers in Survivors of Childhood Soft Tissue Sarcomas Herbal Medicine May Alter Cell Response to Cancer Therapeutic Agents Breast CT May Improve Upon Mammography Untreated Low-Grade DCIS Poses Long-Term Risk Contraceptive Hormone Decreases Ability of Breast Cancer to Spread Genetic Testing Divides Families Japanese Women Found to Have Lower Recurrence of Breast Cancer Access to Mammography May Worsen Method Hold Promise for Identifying Markers of Non-Metastatic vs. Metastatic Breast Cancer Molecular Change Occurring During Brain Tumor Progression Also Evident in Breast Cancer New Breast Shield Reduces Radiation To Female Breast During Chest CT By Up To 73% Soy-Rich Diet Tamoxifen-Like Drug Suggests New Ways to Selectively Block Estrogen Tamoxifen Shows No Benefit, Risk for Breast Cancer Survivors' Heart Health Test Predicts Risk of Blood Clots in Women Taking Tamoxifen Breast Cancer Detector That Uses Electricity Instead of X-Rays Under Study

Herceptin Found to Significantly Reduce Breast Cancer Recurrence for Some Women

Results from two clinical trials show that patients with early-stage breast cancer who received trastuzumab (Herceptin®) in combination with chemotherapy had a 52 percent decrease in risk for breast cancer recurrence, compared with patients who received the same chemotherapy without the drug. The difference is statistically highly significant.

Dr. Edward Romond, associate professor of medicine at the University of Kentucky College of Medicine and UK Markey Cancer Center, acts as principal investigator on the study and the National Surgical Adjuvant Breast and Bowel Project (NSABP) study chair.

"For women with this type of aggressive breast cancer, the addition of trastuzumab to chemotherapy appears to virtually reverse prognosis from unfavorable to good. We owe a huge debt of gratitude to the women whose participation in these trials has made it possible to show the substantial benefit of combining trastuzumab with chemotherapy for adjuvant treatment of women with HER-2 positive breast cancer," said Romond.

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