Other Patient & Consumer Resources

• Surgery Choices for Women With DCIS or Breast Cancer

Clinicians & Providers

• Cancer Screening and Treatment in Women: Recent Findings (continued)
• Impact of Gene Expression Profiling Tests on Breast Cancer Outcomes

Fact Sheets

September 1 2012 20120901

Cancer Screening and Treatment in Women: Recent Findings (continued)

Other Research & Data

• Impact of Gene Expression Profiling Tests on Breast Cancer Outcomes
• Women's Health Highlights: Recent Findings
• Women's lack of knowledge and mistrust play a role in underuse of breast cancer adjuvant therapy

Other News & Events

• AHRQ publishes evidence report on the relationship of alcohol consumption to breast and colorectal cancer
• Breast cancer is associated with higher health care use and costs for women covered by fee-for-service Medicaid
• Chemotherapy that contains anthracyclines is associated with later cardiac illness in breast cancer patients
• Instrument that measures quality of life for breast cancer survivors can be used for other cancers
• No link found between chemotherapy in older women with breast cancer and later cognitive impairment
• Nonsurgical method for diagnosing breast cancer is safe and nearly as effective as surgical biopsy
• Older black women with breast cancer do not receive beneficial chemotherapy as often as white women
• Older women with breast cancer experience more complications with brachytherapy than whole breast irradiation
• Women on Medicare with poor chances of living 4 more years often forego screening mammograms
• Women's lack of knowledge and mistrust play a role in underuse of breast cancer adjuvant therapy