RESUMO
Breast cancer is the leading cause of neoplastic death in women around the world. In the era of personalized medicine, legitimately awaited by our patients, the future of breast cancer screening will depend on an individual-based risk assessment, making it possible to better adapt the age of onset, frequency and the type of examinations useful for this screening. This article reviews the three broad categories of highest risk factors available to establish a risk score appropriate for each patient.
Le cancer du sein est la première cause de mortalité par néoplasie chez la femme de par le monde. À l'ère d'une médecine personnalisée, légitimement attendue par nos patientes, l'avenir du dépistage du cancer du sein passera par une évaluation du risque sur base individuelle, permettant d'adapter, au mieux, l'âge de début ainsi que la fréquence et le type des examens utiles pour ce dépistage. Cet article passe en revue les trois grandes catégories de facteurs de plus haut risque disponibles pour établir un score de risque adapté à chaque patiente.
Assuntos
Neoplasias da Mama , Neoplasias da Mama/diagnóstico , Neoplasias da Mama/epidemiologia , Detecção Precoce de Câncer , Feminino , Humanos , Medicina de Precisão , Medição de Risco , Fatores de RiscoRESUMO
Many factors determine a woman's risk of breast cancer; some genetic are related to family history, others are based on personal factors such reproductive and medical history. A high-risk woman must benefit of a specific screening regimen including breast examination, mammography, ultrasonography and contrast material-enhanced magnetic resonance. But she can also benefit of chemo prevention or/and risk-reducing surgery such bilateral prophylactic salpingo-oophorectomy and bilateral prophylactic mastectomy.
Assuntos
Neoplasias da Mama/prevenção & controle , Prevenção Primária , Prevenção Secundária , Neoplasias da Mama/genética , Feminino , Predisposição Genética para Doença , Humanos , Comportamento de Redução do RiscoRESUMO
The aim of adjuvant hormone therapy for breast cancer is to reach, in daily practice, an efficacy similar to that obtained in clinical trials. In spite of the demonstrated efficacy of hormone therapy, compliance represents a major challenge and a multidimensional problem. A better understanding of the reasons underlying non-compliance would help identify the patients at higher risk and would permit the implementation of strategies to improve compliance to adjuvant hormone therapy. With this in mind, we undertook a review of the recent literature on the topic (Pub Med 2003-2009).
