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_ Breast Cancer Early Stage Breast-Cancer Patients May Be Getting Too Many Tests By Jane Farrell article Asymptomatic women who have been treated for early-stage breast cancer often undergo advanced imaging and other tests that provide little … Read More→
_ Breast Cancer A New Technique Aims to Ensure That Surgeons Completely Remove Cancer By Jane Farrell article Researchers have developed a technique to allow breast-cancer surgeons to determine during an operation whether all cancerous tissue has been … Read More→
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_ Breast Cancer Breast Cancer Screening Recommendations Amid Changing Guidelines By Sondra Forsyth article Disagreement persists between professional societies and organizations over the best time to start and to discontinue mammography for breast cancer … Read More→
_ Breast Cancer More Patients with Early-Stage Breast Cancer May Not Need Chemo By Sondra Forsyth article Women with early-stage breast cancer who had an intermediate risk recurrence score (RS) from a 21-gene expression assay had similar … Read More→