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Researchers say they’re zeroing in on factors that may increase the risk of leukemia after breast cancer treatment. The findings are a step forward in ...
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To Boost Patient Health, Rehab Sometimes Starts Before Cancer Treatment
Cancer patients who do rehabilitation before they begin treatment may recover more quickly from surgery, chemotherapy or radiation, some cancer specialists say. But insurance coverage for cancer ...
Read More »Added Radiation May Help Some With Early Breast Cancer
Some women who have surgery for early stage breast cancer may benefit from additional radiation to nearby lymph nodes, two new clinical trials suggest. Researchers ...
Read More »‘Watchful Waiting’ Becoming More Common for Prostate Cancer Patients
By Randy Dotinga, HealthDay More U.S. physicians are sparing their low-risk prostate cancer patients from surgery, radiation and hormone therapy in favor of monitoring their patients over ...
Read More »Prostate Cancer Patients Who Smoke Double Risk of Death
By Alan Mozes HealthDay Reporter TUESDAY, Jan. 27, 2015 (HealthDay News) — Smoking doubles the chances that a prostate cancer patient will see his disease spread ...
Read More »Doctors Suggest That We Are Scanning Ourselves To Death
By Alan Lyndon “We are giving ourselves cancer.” That’s according to an article in today’s New York Times written by a radiologist and a cardiologist from ...
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