XRAY Quarterly Digest Winter 2019/2020

Are you, or someone you know, living with metastatic cancer? Read our XRAY review about a young woman living with metastatic breast cancer and how supportive care improved her ability to cope with treatment.

Genetic testing is recommended for most women who are diagnosed with breast cancer at age 50 or younger. XRAY looks at a New York City study that showed that the types of inherited mutations associated with breast cancer vary among racial and ethnic groups, even though genetic testing rates did not differ.

Many women with recurrent ovarian cancer have a second surgery. Research suggests that for women with platinum-sensitive cancers going back to the operating room may shorten life. Read behind the ovarian cancer headlines in our XRAY review.