FRIDAY, Dec. 13, 2013 (HealthDay News) -- Exercise can provide older breast cancer survivors with lasting benefits that keep their bones strong and help prevent fractures, a new study suggests. Breast cancer treatment is associated...
ReadDec 12, 2013 | By Crystal Phend, Senior Staff Writer, MedPage Today Anastrozole, an aromatase inhibitor, reduces the incidence of breast cancer in high-risk postmenopausal women. Side effects associated with estrogen deprivation, were only slightly...
ReadBy Laura Landro Wall Street Journal December 9, 2013 For cancer patients, getting through the rigors of treatment is the first hurdle. Then, life as a cancer survivor poses its own daunting physical and emotional...
ReadBy Lisa Collier Cool Dec 10, 2013 Many of us don’t know the warning signs of the most common—and deadly—forms of cancer. An alarming new survey reports that 26 percent of Americans can’t name even...
ReadSUNDAY, Dec. 8, 2013 (HealthDay News) -- Money problems can prevent women from getting recommended breast cancer treatments, a new study suggests. Researchers analyzed data from more than 1,300 women in the Seattle-Puget Sound area...
ReadFRIDAY, Dec. 6, 2013 (HealthDay News) -- Obesity and smoking increase the risk of implant failure in women who undergo breast reconstruction soon after breast removal, according to a new study. Researchers analyzed data from...
ReadTHURSDAY, Dec. 5 (HealthDay News) -- By counting the number of cancer-fighting immune cells inside tumors, scientists say they may have found a way to predict survival from ovarian cancer. The researchers developed an experimental...
ReadWEDNESDAY, Dec. 4, 2013 (HealthDay News) -- Women with pollen allergies may be at increased risk for blood cancers such as leukemia and lymphoma, a new study suggests. Researchers did not uncover the same link...
ReadWEDNESDAY, Dec. 4, 2013 (HealthDay News) -- Breast cancer patients who have mammograms every 12 to 18 months have less chance of lymph node involvement than those who wait longer, therefore improving their outlook, according...
ReadBy JANE E. BRODY, NY Times Dec. 3, 2013 Anyone faced with a life-threatening or chronic illness should be so lucky as Catherine, a 27-year-old waitress in New York. Dr. Diane E. Meier, a palliative...
ReadMONDAY, Nov. 18 (HealthDay News) -- Use of breast MRIs has nearly tripled in recent years, but the women who could benefit the most are not always getting the expensive imaging test, a new study...
ReadSUNDAY, Nov. 17, 2013 (HealthDay News) -- Children who survive cancer often have treatment-related changes to their arteries that may put them at risk for heart disease while still in childhood, a new study says....
ReadFRIDAY, Nov. 15 , 2013 (HealthDay News) -- Death rates from pancreatic cancer in the United States are increasing among whites and decreasing among blacks, but rates among blacks remain much higher than among whites,...
ReadFRIDAY, Nov. 15, 2013 (HealthDay News) -- Reducing your consumption of certain types of fried foods can help lower the amount of a possible cancer-causing chemical in your diet, according to U.S. health officials. Acrylamide...
ReadFRIDAY, Nov. 15, 2013 (HealthDay News) -- Breast cancer in men occurs only rarely. But among men who have breast cancer, mastectomy rather than breast-conserving surgery is by far the more common choice, new research...
ReadMONDAY, Nov. 11 (HealthDay News) -- Some women with early breast cancer might benefit from a "one-and-done" treatment, in which they receive a single dose of targeted radiation therapy during the surgery that removes their...
ReadFRIDAY, Nov. 8 (HealthDay News) -- People with diets that promote inflammation -- such as those high in sugar and saturated fats -- are at increased risk for early death from all causes, including gastrointestinal...
ReadTHURSDAY, Nov. 7 (HealthDay News) -- Recent decades have seen huge strides in treating childhood cancer, but certain types of tumors remain difficult to treat and are often deadly. That's the frustrating fact at the...
ReadTUESDAY, Nov. 5 (HealthDay News) -- Men with prostate cancer may face an increased risk for developing melanoma skin cancer down the road, new research suggests. The finding stems from a fresh analysis of data...
ReadMONDAY, Nov. 4 (HealthDay News) -- Just one dose of a human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine may be enough to provide long-term protection against cervical cancer in women, a new study suggests. The HPV vaccine is...
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