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12/15/13 Bones Benefit From Exercise After Breast Cancer, Study Finds

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...

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12/12/13 Arimidex Prevents First Breast Cancers

Dec 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...

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12/11/13 The Next Front in Cancer Care As More Patients Survive, Cancer Centers Handle Disease’s Knock-On Effects

By 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...

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12/11/13 Early Warning Signs of Cancer: Are You at Risk?

By 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...

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12/9/13 Money Problems Can Compromise Breast Cancer Care

SUNDAY, 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...

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12/9/13 Obesity, Smoking Might Threaten Implants After Mastectomy

FRIDAY, 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...

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12/5/13 New Test May Help Predict Survival From Ovarian Cancer

THURSDAY, 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...

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12/5/13 Study: Pollen Allergies May Raise Risk for Blood Cancers in Women

WEDNESDAY, 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...

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12/5/13 Frequent Mammograms Tied to Lower Risk of Breast Cancer Spread

WEDNESDAY, 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...

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12/3/13 Palliative Care, the Treatment That Respects Pain

By 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...

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11/19/13 Use of Breast MRIs Way Up, Studies Find

MONDAY, 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...

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11/19/13 Kids’ Cancer Treatments May Cause Heart Trouble, Study Says

SUNDAY, 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....

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11/19/13 Racial Differences Seen in Pancreatic Cancer Death Rates

FRIDAY, 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,...

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11/19/13 Acrylamide: An Unwelcome Part of Your Diet

FRIDAY, 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...

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11/19/13 Most Men With Breast Cancer Undergo Mastectomy, Study Finds

FRIDAY, 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...

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11/12/13 ‘One-Stop’ Radiation Treatment Might Offer Breast Cancer Care Alternative

MONDAY, 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...

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11/12/13 Poor Diet May Spur Inflammation-Related Health Problems

FRIDAY, 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...

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11/12/13 Despite Major Progress, Some Childhood Cancers Are Still Killers

THURSDAY, 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...

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11/12/13 History of Prostate Cancer Tied to Higher Odds for Melanoma

TUESDAY, 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...

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11/5/13 Single Dose of HPV Vaccine May Be Enough to Guard Against Cervical Cancer

MONDAY, 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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