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07/24/15 Radiation From Mammograms May Be Lower Than Thought

WEDNESDAY, July 15, 2015 (HealthDay News) -- The low risks from radiation exposure during mammography screening may be even lower than experts have assumed, a new study contends. The new research estimates that the radiation...

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07/24/15 Breast Cancer Survivors Tend to Gain Weight: Study

WEDNESDAY, July 15, 2015 (HealthDay News) -- Among women with a family history of breast cancer, breast cancer survivors tend to gain more weight than women who are free of the disease, new research suggests....

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07/24/15 Despite Benefits, Few U.S. States Mandate Cervical Cancer Vaccine

TUESDAY, July 14, 2015 (HealthDay News) -- Almost a decade after the HPV vaccine was first recommended for girls, only two U.S. states and Washington, D.C., require the immunization, a new study finds. What's more,...

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07/14/15 Testicular Cancer & Cycling: Is There a Link?

by Rachael Rettner, Senior Writer | July 13, 2015 05:42pm ET Cyclist Ivan Basso's announcement today that he has testicular cancer comes decades after Lance Armstrong famously battled the disease. Could two cases of testicular...

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07/14/15 Hope and Resilience: How Parents Cope with a Child’s Cancer

By Cari Nierenberg, Contributing Writer | July 13, 2015 07:49am ET Around the time she was celebrating her first Mother's Day, in May 2009, Merri Hackett and her husband received the news no parents want...

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07/14/15 Cancer Survivors May Face More Challenges When Adopting

MONDAY, July 13, 2015 (HealthDay News) -- Cancer survivors may face roadblocks when trying to adopt children, a new study finds. Cancer and cancer treatments can leave some patients infertile, so many young cancer survivors...

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07/13/15 No Change in Number of ‘Living Wills’ by U.S. Cancer Patients: Study

THURSDAY, July 9, 2015 (HealthDay News) -- End-of-life care can be fraught with difficult decisions, but a new study finds that since 2000 there has been no increase in the number of Americans with cancer...

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07/13/15 Colon Cancer Deaths Falling, Except in 3 U.S. Regions

WEDNESDAY, July 8, 2015 (HealthDay News) -- There's reason to celebrate declines in deaths from colon cancer in the United States -- unless you live in three areas that are still waiting for those declines,...

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07/13/15 ‘Watchful Waiting’ Becoming More Common for Prostate Cancer Patients

TUESDAY, July 7, 2015 (HealthDay News) -- 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 time -- a strategy called...

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07/13/15 Regular Mammograms Might Lead to ‘Overdiagnosis’ of Breast Cancer

MONDAY, July 6, 2015 (HealthDay News) -- Regular mammogram screening for breast cancer might be causing "widespread overdiagnosis," with some women treated for tumors that would not have caused sickness or death, a new study...

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07/13/15 Americans’ Risk of Dying From Cancer Is Falling, CDC Finds

THURSDAY, July 2, 2015 (HealthDay News) -- The risk that any one American will die from cancer -- the cancer death rate -- is going down, regardless of sex or race, a new government study...

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07/13/15 Indoor Tanning Rates Decline As Cancer Warnings Mount

WEDNESDAY, July 1, 2015 (HealthDay News) -- Heeding warnings about increased cancer risks, a growing number of American adults are saying no to indoor tanning, a new government analysis suggests. The percentage of adults who...

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06/30/15 Why Lung Cancer is the Deadliest Cancer, and Why it Doesn’t Have to Be

By Nathan Pennell, M.D., Ph.D. June 30, 2015 US News and World Report Have you ever wondered why, in 2015, lung cancer is still such a deadly disease? If you're like most people, you might...

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06/29/15 Blood, Saliva Tests May Help ID Head and Neck Cancers Early Study shows potential for noninvasive tumor detection

FRIDAY, June 26, 2015 (HealthDay News) -- Scientists report they've detected DNA from head and neck cancer tumors in patients' blood and saliva samples, a development that potentially could lead to early diagnosis of these...

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06/29/15 In Wake of High Court Ruling, What’s Next for Obamacare

THURSDAY, June 25, 2015 (HealthDay News) -- The Affordable Care Act will grow stronger in the next few years, now that the U.S. Supreme Court has upheld the controversial health reform law for a second...

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06/29/15 As U.S. Smoking Rate Drops, Smokers More Likely to Quit: Study

THURSDAY, June 25, 2015 (HealthDay News) -- As the number of smokers in the United States dwindles, those who still light up are becoming less attached to the habit and more likely to try quitting,...

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06/24/15 Combination of ‘Safe’ Chemicals May Be Causing Some Cancers

TUESDAY, June 23, 2015 (HealthDay News) -- Fifty everyday chemicals considered safe on their own can trigger cancer through combined exposure, says an international team of scientists. The 174 scientists from 28 countries examined 85...

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06/24/15 HPV Vaccination Tied to Drop in Precancerous Cervical Lesions in U.S.

MONDAY, June 22, 2015 (HealthDay News) -- A new study offers more evidence that the advent of vaccines to fight human papillomavirus (HPV) could reduce cervical cancer in American women. While it's still too early...

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06/24/15 The Doctor Who Does Your Colonoscopy Matters

TUESDAY, June 16, 2015 (HealthDay News) -- The doctor performing your colonoscopy makes a difference in whether you'll develop colon cancer or die from it, a new study finds. Colonoscopy saves lives, and "high quality"...

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06/17/15 Study links pesticide DDT to higher breast cancer risk

Miami (AFP) - A five-decade study of US women has found that those exposed to high levels of the pesticide DDT in the womb were four times as likely to get breast cancer. The study...

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