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She was living the American dream. She was young, had a loving husband, two healthy sons, and a successful career as a doctor. But her dreams were shattered by breast cancer. And within weeks of her diagnosis an unbelievable chain of events happened. Her three sisters and mother were also all diagnosed with the disease.
There is a type of breast cancer that often doesn't show up on mammograms. It's called inflammatory breast cancer. IBC can be stopped if you know the signs and symptoms.
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Thanks to modern imaging technology doctors are finding breast cancer earlier, while it's still curable. But most of the time, tumors are so small doctors can't feel them. They can't tell exactly where they are. But now, doctors at Mayo Clinic are using a new technique that allows them to pinpoint tumors more precisely, giving them a better chance at removing all of the cancer.
It could be your mother, sister, aunt or best friend. One out of every seven women you know will be diagnosed with breast cancer. Thankfully, advances in early detection and treatment are helping many women beat breast cancer. But there's always the fear that the cancer could come back. Now for the first time, doctors at Mayo Clinic, working with doctors in Canada and in seven other countries, have proven that a new drug can cut a woman's risk of getting a recurrence of breast cancer almost in half.
Mayo Clinic doctors offer new breast reconstruction for patients needing surgery. Standard reconstructions involve removing part of an abdominal muscle and surrounding fat. Now, doctors can transfer only fat and vessels to construct the new breast. Patients recover more quickly and struggle less with problems relating to loss of stomach muscle.
Maybe it's your mom, wife, sister or best friend. Chances are you know someone with breast cancer, because one out of eight women is diagnosed with the disease. It used to be your had no choice but to have your breast removed along with all the lymph nodes. Removal of those nodes is what causes most of the pain and complications. But now, a new, minimally invasive procedure allows doctors to find out whether or not your cancer has spread to the nodes, and shows them exactly which ones, if any, need to be removed. It makes what used to be a big operation much, much smaller.
Mayo Clinic is a site involved in the STAR trial for breast cancer. The main goal of this study is to find out which of two drugs (tamoxifen and raloxifene) is better for prevention and treatment of breast cancer. The 5-year trial is the largest breast cancer study to date, and researchers hope to recruit 19,000 women.
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