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WEDNESDAY, Feb. 4, 2015 (HealthDay News) — Lung cancer has overtaken breast cancer as the leading cancer killer of women in developed countries, reflecting changing ...
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Race, Ethnicity Affect Breast Cancer Survival
By Kathleen Doheny HealthDay Reporter TUESDAY, Jan. 13, 2015 (HealthDay News) — Your chances of being diagnosed with early breast cancer, as well as surviving it, ...
Read More »Herceptin May Benefit Some Women With Early Breast Cancer
By Amy Norton HealthDay Reporter (HealthDay News) — For some women with early breast tumors, lower-dose chemotherapy and the drug Herceptin may help ward off a ...
Read More »Falling Cancer Death Rate Means 1.5 Million Lives Saved Over 20 Years
By Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter WEDNESDAY, Dec. 31, 2014 (HealthDay News) — Progress in the war against cancer has triggered a 22 percent drop in U.S. ...
Read More »Breast Cancer Chemo Tied to Small But Significant Leukemia Risk
(HealthDay News) — Among early stage breast cancer patients who undergo chemotherapy and/or radiation treatment, less than half of one percent will eventually develop leukemia ...
Read More »New Treatment Shows Promise in Younger Breast Cancer Patients
THURSDAY, Dec. 11, 2014 (HealthDay News) — A treatment known as ovarian suppression used along with an anti-estrogen drug normally given to older women appears ...
Read More »Many Breast Cancer Patients Get Too Much Radiation Therapy
WEDNESDAY, Dec. 10, 2014 (HealthDay News) — Many studies have affirmed that a newer, shorter course of radiation therapy for early-stage breast cancer works just ...
Read More »Male Breast Cancer Is Different
TUESDAY, Dec. 9, 2014 (HealthDay News) — Men’s breast cancer differs in some ways from women’s, new research finds. One important difference is in the ...
Read More »New Device May Make Mammograms More Comfortable
By Kathleen Doheny HealthDay Reporter TUESDAY, Nov. 25, 2014 (HealthDay News) — Dutch researchers have developed a device that may reduce the discomfort many women feel ...
Read More »Many People Who Drink a Lot Aren’t Alcoholics: CDC
By Steven Reinberg HealthDay Reporter THURSDAY, Nov. 20, 2014 (HealthDay News) — Most people who drink to excess or binge drink are not alcoholics, a new ...
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