2024
Helping ourselves, helping others: the Young Women’s Breast Cancer Study (YWS) – a multisite prospective cohort study to advance the understanding of breast cancer diagnosed in women aged 40 years and younger
Rosenberg S, Zheng Y, Ruddy K, Poorvu P, Snow C, Kirkner G, Meyer M, Tamimi R, Schapira L, Peppercorn J, Come S, Borges V, Warner E, Gelber S, Collins L, Winer E, Partridge A. Helping ourselves, helping others: the Young Women’s Breast Cancer Study (YWS) – a multisite prospective cohort study to advance the understanding of breast cancer diagnosed in women aged 40 years and younger. BMJ Open 2024, 14: e081157. PMID: 38951008, PMCID: PMC11218027, DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2023-081157.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsYoung Women's Breast Cancer StudyMultisite prospective cohort studyBreast Cancer StudyProspective cohort studyStage 0-IV breast cancerBreast cancerCohort studyOlder womenDied of breast cancerFear of recurrencePatient-reported outcome dataYoung womenCancer studiesClinical data abstractionPost-traumatic stressQuality of lifeImprove careFollow-upPsychosocial outcomesYoung survivorsCommunity sitesBiospecimen collectionUnderstudied populationData abstractionOutcome data
2009
Pathologic Features and Biomarker Expression among Young Women with Breast Cancer: Results from the Young Women's Breast Cancer Study.
Collins L, Collins L, Gelber S, Gelber S, Ruddy K, Ruddy K, Tamimi R, Tamimi R, Come S, Come S, Marotti J, Marotti J, Schapira L, Schapira L, Kereakoglow S, Brachtel E, Brachtel E, Winer E, Winer E, Partridge A, Partridge A. Pathologic Features and Biomarker Expression among Young Women with Breast Cancer: Results from the Young Women's Breast Cancer Study. Cancer Research 2009, 69: 6007-6007. DOI: 10.1158/0008-5472.sabcs-09-6007.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchYoung Women's Breast Cancer StudyBreast Cancer StudyPoor prognostic featuresBasal-like carcinomasPathologic featuresBreast cancerYoung womenHER2 positivityPrognostic featuresTumor stageTumor necrosisER/PR negativityMulti-center prospective cohortInvasive breast cancerClinico-pathologic featuresHER2-positive tumorsCancer studiesHigh tumor gradeHigher tumor stageHigh-grade tumorsBasal-like phenotypeBiomarker expression patternsLogistic regression modelsPR negativityClinical characteristics