Breast Cancer

Breast cancer is the most common cancer among New Mexico Hispanic women, and Hispanic women are less likely to be diagnosed with early-stage cancer compared with Anglo women.

Early locoregional therapy (with surgery and radiation) does not improve overall survival in women with newly diagnosed stage IV breast cancer and an intact primary tumor compared with systemic therapy alone, according to results of the ECOG-ACRIN E2108 randomized phase 3 trial presented at the Plenary Session of the ASCO20 Virtual Scientific Program.

A review of the use of scalp cooling in breast cancer treatment, the variables impacting success, and how the navigators can promote informed decision-making.

Ongoing research and new treatments are giving renewed hope to patients with a triple-negative breast cancer diagnosis.

The combination of the checkpoint inhibitor durvalumab, the PARP inhibitor olaparib, and the taxane paclitaxel as neoadjuvant therapy improved pathological complete response (pCR) compared with physician’s choice of chemotherapy in high-risk HER2-negative stage II or III breast cancer.

Distress comes in many forms. Click here for strategies to identify and manage distress for your patients.

Nurse Navigator Debra Kelly describes her team’s experience in determining content and designing a guide to educate patients and improve their experience.

When Harold P. Freeman, MD, first coined the phrase “navigation” for breast cancer patients in New York City in the 1990s, I am not sure anyone realized the impact that this nursing specialty would have on other populations of women in the future. Through his medical practice, Dr Freeman noted that patients who were poor and/or of minority status presented with advanced stages of breast cancer and were more likely to die of their disease.

New cases of male breast cancer are up by 22% and the mortality rate has increased by 19%. Here’s what The Male Breast Cancer Coalition is doing about it.

Navigators constantly hear the phase “standard of care,” but what does it essentially mean? Click here to find out.