Current Research

Research for breast cancer is ongoing. The following advances may still be under investigation in clinical trials and may not be approved or available at this time. Always discuss all diagnostic and treatment options with your doctor.

• Developing ways to best evaluate the genes and proteins at work in each patent and each breast cancer, to better determine therapeutic approaches (personalized cancer medicine)
  
  
• Testing shorter radiation schedules and more targeted radiation approaches
  
  
• Testing new drug therapies and combinations of therapies
  
  
• Determining who doesn’t need chemotherapy
  
  
• Determining the best ways to give hormone therapies
  
  
• Finding new reconstructive surgery approaches

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