BRCA1和BRCA2基因的发现,为乳腺癌的预防、诊断和治疗带来新的技术方法,还降低了乳腺癌治疗的风险。
Identifying BRCA1 and BRCA2 has led to new techniques for lowering, detecting, and treating breast cancer, and lowering the risk for the disease.
更年期后的激素治疗已经被大家熟知会增加乳腺癌的风险。一项研究也发现激素有可能使乳腺癌恶化而致命。
Hormone treatment after menopause, already known to increase the risk of breast cancer, also makes it more likely that the cancer will be advanced and deadly, a study finds.
但霍姆斯团队强调,鉴于产生副作用的风险,乳腺癌患者不应在接受放射治疗或化疗期间服用阿司匹林。另外,阿司匹林可引发胃出血,患者应在医生指导下服用。
Holmes' team stressed that patients should not take aspirin while undergoing radiation or chemotherapy because of the risk of side effects.
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