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Breast Cancer Risks...Do they increase over time? New study reports on a second risk of breast cancerReuters reports that with gene mutations a second breast cancer risk rises over time. Are women who are genetically susceptible to breast cancer and have it in
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Double Mastectomy Following Cancer Diagnosis...Hold That Scalpel or Go For It? New Study reveals some may be jumping the gun.Reuters reports on research that shows removal rates for early cancers are increasing across the U.S. Women fear that the cancer will progress
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New study reveals use of aspirin to prevent heart attacks may not be as effective as once thoughtMany doctors prescribe aspirin to heart patients to prevent them from having (sometimes another) a heart attack. But does this aspirin regimen really help?
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Kidney Problems? New study suggests that older kidney patients don't know why they're getting dialysis treatmentThe researchers interviewed over 40 patients from nine kidney departments in English hospitals that provide dialysis. People in the study had advanced kidney
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Knee Replacement Surgery...Beneficial or Not?But there is mounting evidence that knee-replacement surgery may be too appealing. The research also shows that many people thinking about having surgery would
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New Study; Almost 25% of breast cancer patients who had breast conservation surgery needed a second surgery.Study revealed that 25% of women who had breast conservation surgery for breast cancer needed a second operation. The study consisted of 240,000 women who had
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Is gene therapy the future for managing cancer treatment?Chemotherapy and radiation kill cancer cells, unfortunately, they also kill healthy cells. Scientists are now focusing on Gene Therapy.
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Experimental therapy...Using HIV to Treat CancerExperimental treatment of fighting a deadly form of leukemia with HIV virus is giving a Utah family hope or the future. In 2012 Marshall Jensen was diagnosed
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Good news for Medicare & Medicaid recipients...Now they'll pay for low-dose CT scans to look for lung tumors for patients at high riskOn Monday, the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services made a proposal to pay for low-dose CT scans to look for lung tumors for people with a high risk.
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Diagnosed with thyroid cancer. Treated for it. Yet, never had it. Over-diagnosis is a problem according to new study.Many patients are being diagnosed with thyroid cancer and treated for it. In reality they didn't have thyroid cancer or it was not malignant.