“About 40 percent of breast tumors change when they spread, which means that many patients with metastatic breast cancer may require treatment alterations, say Scottish researchers.

They examined 211 breast tumors that had traveled to the lymph nodes in the armpit. This is the location breast cancer usually spreads to first, BBC News reported. The researchers were surprised to find that the breast cancer had changed in so many patients and in so many ways.”

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Great article –

“A dozen years ago, the Desert Cancer Foundation of Arizona began with four women who wanted to raise money to provide breast cancer screening for the uninsured or underinsured.”

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A great article from Reuters –

“Dr. Sweeten, a board-certified gynecologist and Fellow of the American College
of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, recently incorporated the Provista Life
Science BT Test®, a blood test for the detection of breast cancer, into her
patient care practice. Sweeten noted a case where a 44-year-old patient called
to schedule her annual mammogram, and in advance of the mammogram Sweeten
ordered the BT Test. When her patient’s BT Score® came back high, indicating
an increased likelihood of the presence of breast cancer, she changed the
order for her patient’s routine screening mammogram to a diagnostic bilateral
mammogram.”

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