Cancer Network Covers the Hottest Stories from this year's ASCO Breast Cancer Symposium

NORWALK, Conn., Sept. 27, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- UBM Medica US announces that Cancer Network, home of the journal ONCOLOGY and the long-trusted reference Cancer Management: A Multidisciplinary Approach, as well as news, blogs, podcasts, videos, and slideshows by and for medical professionals working in oncology, hosts coverage of the ASCO Breast Cancer Symposium that took place Saturday, September 7 – Monday, September 9 in San Francisco.

Cancer Network reported on meeting highlights, including:

• Post-Treatment Biomarker Changes Improved Breast Cancer Survival
• Perceived Cognitive Decline in Breast Cancer Patients
• Nine of Ten Women Cannot Quantify Lifetime Breast Cancer Risk
• Batch MRI Breast Cancer Screening Possibility With Accelerated Protocol
• After Radiation for DCIS, No Increase in Cardiovascular Mortality, Morbidity

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