Socio-economic Factors Likely to Impact Breast Cancer Diagnosis, Treatment and Outcome Disparities for Certain Ethnic/Racial Groups Women from certain racial and ethnic sub-groups within the United States show significant differences when it comes to diagnosis, treatment and outcome of breast cance

San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium, December 2002, Abstract #16 Fisher B, et al. Until the late 1980s, women with invasive breast cancer that was node-negative—meaning no cancer cells were found in the lymph nodes—were often given only local treatment (targeted to a specific area of the body). Th

In the past, when breast cancer patients learned that their disease had metastasized, it seemed to be little more than a death sentence. Today, however, new therapies are causing a great deal of excitement among oncologists and patients alike. "Many treatments today can give patients a better and

Registration for the Reves International Breast Cancer Symposium, February 8, 2003 at the Wyndham Arlington Hotel is full. On-site registration will not be available. Please contact the Komen Foundation at 1-866-566-3648 (toll-free) if you have additional questions. The Wendy and Emery Reves Intern

Buseman S, et al. Cancer, January 15, 2003 Background and importance of the study: The ongoing debate over whether mammograms save lives is very difficult to resolve. So many different studies have been done on the subject, each with a different design and different results. Yet this is such an i

Holmes DH, et al. International Journal of Cancer, January 9, 2003 Background and importance of the study: The risk of developing breast cancer is very different from country to country. So are people's diets. This is one reason researchers have long suspected that diet may affect breast cancer ri