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Breast cancer may be diagnosed without biopsies
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Heart drugs show promise for fighting colon cancer (PR)
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Bone Drug/Cancer News Highlights Women's Risky Therapy Choices
Martha Rosenberg
Ladies, Pick Your Cancer
Many women receiving menopausal treatments today are too young to remember the old American folk tune, There Was An Old ...
Some basics about radiation and cancer
Editor’s note: Two studies in the Dec 14-28, 2009 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine have found that CT scans each year may cause tens of thousands of future cancer cases. Amy Berrington de González, D. Phil., of the National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Md., and colleagues found CT scans performed in 2007 could lead to development of about 29,000 future cancers including 14,000 cases from scans of the abdomen and pelvis which require higher dosages of radiation; 4100 from chest scans; 4,000 from head scans; and 2,700 from CT angiography. The following are some basics for those who know a thing about radiation and cancer.
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CT scans cause cancer - studies
Editor's note: Get to know the risk. Often times radiation-based diagnostic tools like CT scans are labeled as non-invasive. They are not actually!...
Chemo plus herceptin boost breast cancer survival
By David Liu
A new study led by researchers at the Mayo Clinic campus in Jacksonville, Fla suggests that patients with HER2 positive breast cancer would ...
H1N1 vaccine available to all Illinoisans Dec 15
By David Liu
While the H1n1 flu activity nationwide is on the decline, the State of Illinois announced on Thursday Dec 10 that H1N1 flu availability ...
New drug shrinks breast cancer
By Jimmy Downs
A new study presented at the 32nd annual CTRC-AACR San Antonio Breast cancer Symposium shows that a new antibody drug helped shrink or ...
Combo treatment better for patients with HER2-positive breast cancer
By Jimmy downs
Lapatinib plus trastuzumab are better than lapatinib alone at extending the lives of patients with HER2-positive breast cancer, according to a new study ...
Osteoporosis drugs may reduce breast cancer risk, and other breast cancer news
By Sheilah DowneyBone building drugs used to treat osteoporosis, women may recall veteran actress Sally Fields touting Boniva in recent television ads, may now help ...
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