A woman’s memories of a loved one’s experience with cancer may play a significant role in how she approaches breast cancer prevention in her own life, a new study has found. Women whose family members or friends died of cancer were far likelier to approach prevention aggressively than were those whose loved ones survived the… Continue reading A Loved One’s Death May Spur Women to Take Aggressive Measures against Breast Cancer
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Early Stage Breast-Cancer Patients May Be Getting Too Many Tests
Asymptomatic women who have been treated for early-stage breast cancer often undergo advanced imaging and other tests that provide little if any medical benefit, could have harmful effects and may increase their financial burden, according to a study from Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. The research was presented at the annual meeting of the American… Continue reading Early Stage Breast-Cancer Patients May Be Getting Too Many Tests
A New Technique Aims to Ensure That Surgeons Completely Remove Cancer
Researchers have developed a technique to allow breast-cancer surgeons to determine during an operation whether all cancerous tissue has been removed. Of the quarter-million women diagnosed with breast cancer every year in the United States, about 180,000 undergo surgery to remove the cancerous tissue while preserving as much healthy breast tissue as possible. However, there’s… Continue reading A New Technique Aims to Ensure That Surgeons Completely Remove Cancer