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Early Stage Breast Cancer Treatment May Increase Survival Rate Among Patients
By Jenn Loro | Dec 11, 2015 09:11 AM ESTNew study presented at San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium yielded data which suggest that early breast cancer treatment by way of breast conserving surgery with radiation leads to higher survival rate among patients than mastectomy does.
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Cancer Organizations Issue Guidelines for Breast Cancer Survivors
By Cheri Cheng | Dec 08, 2015 09:40 AM ESTThe American Cancer Society and the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) have issued joint guidelines for breast cancer survivors
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False-Positive Mammograms could be a Sign of Increased Breast Cancer Risk, Study Finds
By Cheri Cheng | Dec 03, 2015 11:45 AM ESTGetting false-positive mammograms can be a sign of increased breast cancer risk, a new study found.
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Terminally Ill Wife Pursues Wedding In Hospital Bed In Her Last Few Days To Live
By Jenn Loro | Nov 27, 2015 01:24 PM ESTThere's no stopping Maggie and Mark Batt-Rawden from finally getting married even on the brink of death.
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Silicone Breast Implants Not Linked To Health Problems But Not Guaranteed Safe
By Jenn Loro | Nov 12, 2015 12:01 PM ESTResearchers cannot yet establish a strong link between having silicone implants and health problems. However, this is not also an assurance that it is completely safe.
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African American Women Report Higher Cases of Breast Cancer
By Kanika Gupta | Oct 31, 2015 01:17 PM EDTAccording to a recent report by American Cancer Society called “CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians” Breast Cancer in black women has been rising at a staggering 0.4% each year between 2008 and 2012
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Former ‘Good Morning America’ Co-Host Joan Lunden Survives Breast Cancer, wants to be a ‘Beacon of Hope’
By Cheri Cheng | Oct 30, 2015 09:37 AM EDTJoan Lunden, a former co-host of ABC's "Good Morning America," wants to become an advocate for breast cancer awareness.
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Breast Cancer Rates in Black and White Women are now Equal, Study Finds
By Cheri Cheng | Oct 29, 2015 12:48 PM EDTThe number of breast cancer diagnoses in black and white women has leveled off, a new study found.
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Stella McCartney Reveals Photos of Survivors Showing their Scars of Mastectomy Raising Awareness for Breast Cancer
By Kanika Gupta | Oct 29, 2015 12:07 PM EDTStella McCartney has lent her fashion website to the survivors of breast cancer by publishing photographs of 12 women with their mastectomy scars and a hashtag NoLessWoman
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Breast Cancer Treatment More Effective Now Than In The Past: Study
By Kamal Nayan | Nov 28, 2014 12:20 PM ESTCurrent treatments for breast cancer are more effective than previous therapies, according to a new research involving comparison of recurrence and outcome patterns.
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Recurrence Risk for Breast Cancer is Down, Study Reports
By Cheri Cheng | Nov 27, 2014 12:52 PM ESTBreast cancer patients' risk of recurrence have fallen from the 1980s to the early 2000s, a new study reported.
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Prosocial Internet Support Group May Not Be Of Any Good For Breast Cancer
By Kamal Nayan | Nov 23, 2014 10:27 PM ESTA prosocial Internet support group (ISG) that encourages breast cancer survivors with elevated anxiety or depression to help others may not be beneficial, suggests a new study.
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Gene 'Switches' Could Predict When Breast Cancers Will Spread To The Brain: Study
By Kamal Nayan | Nov 05, 2014 02:46 PM ESTResearchers have found a pattern of genetic 'switches' - chemical marks that turn genes on or off - that are linked to breast cancer's spread to the brain, according to a new research.
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Sea Sponge Drug Could Improve Advanced Breast Cancer Survival Rate By Five Extra Months
By Kamal Nayan | Nov 03, 2014 01:19 PM ESTThe cancer drug eribulin, made from sea sponges could give women with advanced triple negative breast cancer an average of five extra months of life, according to a new study.
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'Invisible Tattoos' Could Improve Body Confidence After Breast Cancer Radiotherapy: Study
By Kamal Nayan | Nov 02, 2014 06:56 PM ESTInvisible tattoos could replace the permanent dark ink tattoos used to ensure that breast cancer patients having radiotherapy are treated in the same sport during each session, according to a new pilot study.
