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News and Features Related to Cancer

221. New Device Spots Melanoma
     

     Nov. 2, 2011 -- MelaFind, a device that helps dermatologists decide whether to order a biopsy of suspected melanomas, has been approved by the FDA. Melanoma is a fast-growing skin cancer. It's often curable if detected early. If not, it's one of the most deadly kinds of cancer. MelaFind, from Mela S

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222. Light Drinking Over Time May Raise Breast Cancer Risk
     

     Nov. 1, 2011 -- Some studies have linked drinking alcohol to an increased risk for breast cancer, and now new research suggests that even moderate to light alcohol intake may raise a woman’s risk. Consistently drinking as little as three alcoholic beverages a week was associated with a small -- 15%

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223. More Women With Breast Cancer Get Nipple-Sparing Surgery
     

     Oct. 27, 2011 -- More women facing mastectomies are opting for surgeries that remove the breast tissue but not the skin, nipple, and areola. Concerns that a procedure called nipple-sparing mastectomy could raise the risk of a return of cancer have kept the surgery from being widely adopted in the pa

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224. Routine Chest X-Rays May Not Cut Lung Cancer Deaths
     

     Oct. 26, 2011 (Honolulu) -- Getting a routine chest X-ray is not likely to reduce your chance of dying from lung cancer. That's the result of a study published in The Journal of the American Medical Association and presented at the annual meeting of the American College of Chest Physicians. It came

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225. Coffee Fights Common Skin Cancer
     

     Oct. 24, 2011 -- Drinking coffee may help prevent the most common type of skin cancer. A new study shows that women who drank more than three cups of coffee per day had a 20% lower risk of developing basal cell carcinoma (BCC) than women who drank less than one cup a month. Men who drank more than t

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226. Vaccine May Help Slow Spread of Lung Cancer
     

     Oct. 21, 2011 -- A cancer vaccine shows potential to slow the spread of cancer among lung cancer patients, a study shows. The experimental vaccine targets a protein linked to more than half of all cases of non-small-cell lung cancer, the most common form of lung cancer. The study is published in The

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227. Breast Cancer Survival: Femara Better Than Tamoxifen
     

     Oct. 21, 2011 -- Older women with early breast cancers are more likely to live longer and less likely to have the cancer come back when they take the drug Femara (letrozole) instead of tamoxifen, a long-term follow-up study shows. At an average follow-up of more than eight years, postmenopausal wome

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228. Radiation Plus Surgery Cuts Risk of Breast Cancer Return
     

     Oct. 20, 2011 -- Women with early breast cancer often consider breast-conserving surgery in which a doctor removes the tumor but spares the rest of the breast. But they may worry that their cancer is more likely to come back if they don't remove the entire breast. New research shows that adding radi

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229. Study: No Link Between Cell Phone Use and Cancer
     

     Oct. 20, 2011 -- In recent years, people have been whipsawed by conflicting studies about the risks posed by low levels of radiation given off by cell phones. Now, one of the largest and longest-running studies ever to look for a link between mobile phone use and brain tumors shows that cell phone u

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230. Guidelines Suggest Less Frequent Screening for Cervical Cancer
     

     Oct. 19, 2011 -- New federal guidelines are urging doctors to back off annual cervical cancer screening for most women. Instead the recommendations say most women between 21 and 65 years old should only be screened every three years, and that more frequent screening may do more harm than good. The d

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