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Researchers discover how early-stage breast cancer can become a silent killer in some patients
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Researchers discover how early-stage breast cancer can become a silent killer in some patients

by The Mount Sinai Hospital Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Mount Sinai researchers have discovered a previously unknown mechanism in which not-yet-malignant cells from early breast cancer tumors travel to other organs and, eventually, “turn on” and become metastatic breast cancer. The researchers, who reported in Cancer Research in April, also showed the ability of the...

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Ovarian cancer is not a silent killer

The myth that ovarian cancer is a “silent killer” is just that, a myth, says a UW Medicine expert on the subject. The more clinicians and primary-care providers recognize the early signs, instead of “blowing them off” as just gastrointestinal problems or nerves, the more lives will be saved, said Dr. Barbara Goff, professor and chair of obstetrics and...