November 2015

Some advanced breast cancer patients can survive longer with better treatments: experts call for clinical trial

Lisbon, Portugal: International experts have called for a clinical trial to investigate the best ways for identifying and treating a small but important group of patients with advanced breast cancer who can survive for long periods without their disease progressing. Although advanced breast cancer [1] is incurable, there are some patients who have just a […]

Medicines for breast cancer: the affordability controversy

Lisbon, Portugal: New and better drugs to treat diseases such as advanced breast cancer will have little effect on improving patient outcomes if a country does not have good healthcare structures in place, Professor Richard Sullivan told the Advanced Breast Cancer Third International Consensus Conference on Friday. Without good systems, Prof Sullivan, of the Institute […]

Higher insulin is an independent prognostic factor in advanced breast cancer: patients may be helped by simple lifestyle changes

Lisbon, Portugal: Patients with breast cancer that has spread to other parts of the body (metastasised) and who have higher insulin levels than normal, but are not diabetic, have a significantly worse prognosis compared with those with normal insulin levels, a researcher will tell the Advanced Breast Cancer Third International Consensus Conference [1] on Friday. […]

Stop the damaging messages about advanced breast cancer and include us in your discussions say patients

Lisbon, Portugal: Organisations that issue “damaging messages” about advanced breast cancer [1] need to be identified and educated to change the way they talk about the disease, a patient told the Advanced Breast Cancer Third International Consensus Conference. In another presentation, a second leader from the community of USA patients with metastatic breast cancer told […]