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Breast Cancer Evidence Update

10th January 2017

Cochrane Systematic Reviews

Axillary treatment for operable primary breast cancer
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Fulvestrant for hormone-sensitive metastatic breast cancer
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Yoga for improving health-related quality of life, mental health and cancer-related symptoms in women diagnosed with breast cancer
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Nipple- and areola-sparing mastectomy for the treatment of breast cancer
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Topic: Breast cancer in women
Acupoint stimulation might reduce fatigue and pain minimally in women with breast cancer (Complement Ther Med 2016 Aug)

Suboptimal health-related quality of life after diagnosis reported in young, black female breast cancer survivors (Breast Cancer Res Treat 2016 Nov) 

Topic: Chemotherapy for early and locally advanced breast cancer
Dose-dense adjuvant chemotherapy may not increase 5-year survival compared to standard chemotherapy in women with nonmetastatic node-positive or high-risk node-negative breast cancer (JAMA 2016 Nov 8) 

Topic: Endocrine therapy for breast cancer

Fulvestrant 500 mg increases progression-free survival compared to anastrozole 1 mg in postmenopausal women with estrogen receptor- and/or progesterone receptor-positive nonvisceral locally advanced or metastatic breast cancer (Lancet 2016 Dec 17) 

ASCO clinical practice guideline on ovarian suppression as adjuvant endocrine therapy for women with hormone receptor-positive breast cancer (National Guideline Clearinghouse 2016 Oct 31) 
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Other Systematic Reviews and Reports 

Do celebrity endorsements matter? Observational study of BRCA gene testing and mastectomy rates after Angelina Jolie’s New York Times editorial
BMJ 2016; 355 doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmj.i6357 (Published 14 December 2016) 

Intrinsic Subtype Switching and Acquired ERBB2/HER2 Amplifications and Mutations in Breast Cancer Brain Metastases  
Nolan Priedigkeit, BS; Ryan J. Hartmaier, PhD; Yijing Chen, BS; et al
JAMA Oncol. Published online Decemb
er 07, 2016. doi:10.1001/jamaoncol.2016.5630

Radiation therapy targets and the risk of breast cancer-related lymphedema: a systematic review and network meta-analysis.
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