Lisa Schulmeister, RN, MN, APRN-BC, FAAN

While palliative care interventions improve patients' quality of life, there is no survival benefit.

With the numbre of deaths from heart disease decreasing and the number of deaths increasing, the CDC predicts that cancer will become the leading cause of death in the US around 2016.

Non-lump and non-breast symptoms of breast cancer occur for 1 in 6 women with breast cancer. For those women, patient intervals to a diagnosis of breast cancer were 1.5 times and 2 times longer.

For women with breast cancer receiving adjuvant endocrine therapy (AET), adherence may depend on socioeconomic status and out-of-pocket costs.

Despite previous thought, working night shifts does not increase the risk of breast cancer.

A recent study found that many patients do not read prescription drug information, leading to limited recall of risk information.