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Quick Radiation Works for Breast Cancer
Nov. 4, 2009 (Chicago) -- A shorter, cheaper and more convenient three-week course of radiation appears to work just as well as the traditional six-week schedule for some women with early-stage breast cancer, a new study suggests. "We cut the duration of radiation treatment in half," says study rese
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Too Many Mastectomies? Maybe Not
Oct. 13, 2009 -- Are surgeons too quick to perform mastectomy instead of breast-conserving surgery? No, a new study suggests. When it's medically appropriate, breast-conserving surgery (lumpectomy) cures as many cancers as removal of the entire breast (mastectomy). Yet there's a sense that surgeons
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Gene Predicts Tamoxifen Success in Breast Cancer
Oct. 8, 2009 -- A single gene variant predicts breast cancer survival after tamoxifen treatment, a new study finds. In the 46% of women with the "good" gene, tamoxifen works as well as newer drugs. For women with the gene variant linked to poor response to tamoxifen treatment, other treatment strate
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Breast Cancer Deaths Drop Again
Sept. 30, 2009 -- Breast cancer death rates dropped 2%, continuing a decade-long decline, the American Cancer Society reports. That means about 15,000 deaths were avoided in 2009 alone, the ACS estimates. Breast cancer deaths declined among African-American women. But African-Americans are still 40%
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Man's Guide to Breast Cancer
John W. Anderson has stood by his mother, wife, sister, and his mom’s closest friend as they battled breast cancer. His new book, Stand by Her: A Breast Cancer Guide for Men, published in time for National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, details these experience, and all that he learned by being on t
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More Women Choose to Remove Noncancerous Breasts
Sept. 28, 2009 -- In the first study to define how many American women are undergoing prophylactic mastectomy, researchers have found that the number of women choosing to have the protective procedure is on the rise. Prophylactic mastectomy is the removal of a healthy breast in order to reduce risk
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Nexavar May Treat Advanced Breast Cancer
Sept. 24, 2009 (Berlin) -- Adding the cancer drug Nexavar to standard chemotherapy significantly extends the time until advanced breast cancer progresses, researchers report. In a study of more than 200 patients, those given Nexavar plus the chemotherapy drug Xeloda lived 2.3 months longer before th
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Surgery Improves Late-Stage Breast Cancer
Sept. 22, 2009 (Berlin) -- Women whose breast cancer is diagnosed late, when it has already spread to other parts of the body, live about a year and a half longer if their breast tumor is surgically removed, researchers report. The main treatment for most breast cancers is surgery to remove either t
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Breast Lumps: 7 Myths and Facts
About 40% of women will discover a breast lump at some point in their lives. Although a lump doesn't necessarily mean cancer, what women do immediately after that discovery can mean the difference between survival or not. So what do you need to know if you find a breast lump? Four experts interviewe
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Expert Q&A: Getting the Best Breast Cancer Treatment
Each year in the United States, close to 250,000 women learn they have breast cancer. As they deal with their diagnosis, they are also asked to make daunting decisions about how to best fight their disease. New patients facing treatment need to understand their options, and that means learning all t
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October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, and a new study reveals why a high number of women with the disease still prefer to have the entire breast surgically removed instead of just the tumor. It's not always because doctors recommend it.
