Physiotherapy helpful after breast cancer surgery
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NEW YORK  - Women may benefit from physiotherapy if they experience shoulder pain and reduced arm function after they undergo surgery for breast cancer, doctors from the Netherlands report.
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Radiation treatments routinely given after surgery to remove small breast tumors may not be necessary for women over 70 if they are taking the cancer drug tamoxifen, according to researchers.
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Many older women with early breast cancer can safely skip radiation after having a lump removed, two studies suggest.    Most women should still undergo radiation, because it helps prevent relapses within the same breast, the researchers say...
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Dec. 22, 2004 -- Having breast reconstruction after a mastectomy isn&#39;t likely to hurt a woman&#39;s chances of surviving breast cancer, a new study suggests.
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Strenuous exercise -- such as lap swimming, aerobics and running -- appears to cut the risk of some breast cancers in women, a study said on Monday.
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Hypnosis can relieve suffering and improve the quality of life of cancer patients, researchers said on Thursday.
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A daily walk around the block, a few laps in the pool, a vigorous game of soccer: studies suggest exercise is extending the lives of women who've survived breast cancer, even as it lifts their spirits.
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EXETER, England  - Hypnosis can relieve suffering  and improve the quality of life of cancer patients, researchers  said on Thursday.
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WEDNESDAY, Oct. 4 (HealthDay News) -- Doctors have known for years that radiation treatment following a lumpectomy for breast cancer reduces the risk of disease recurrence.
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TORONTO (CP) - Canadian doctors have devised a way to give some women with breast cancer a kind of &quot;take-out&quot; radiation that takes only a few hours to prepare and appears to have none of the nasty side-effects of traditional radiation therapy.
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NEW YORK  - Women who undergo mastectomy  for breast cancer can have their breast rebuilt at the time of  surgery without delaying chemotherapy, if this treatment is  also needed, new research shows.
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More women with breast cancer are choosing to have their healthy breast surgically removed along with their affected breast.
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British women who have had breast cancer can now have a new treatment which has been found to prevent the disease returning and to prolong survival.
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Aug. 31, 2004 -- For cancer survivors, physical and emotional problems continue long after treatment ends. In fact, even long-term cancer survivors fare worse -- in terms of quality of life -- than people
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Here are two more reasons to exercise: It may help prevent breast cancer and can be a safer way to lose weight than dieting, doctors said on Monday.
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Research has shown that women  who undergo chemotherapy after surgery for early-stage breast  cancer have an improved chance of survival. Now, investigators  have evidence that therapy can be safely delayed for up to 12  weeks - but waiting longer may adversely affect the outcome.
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NEW YORK  - Getting plenty of recreational activity may reduce women's risk of developing breast cancer after menopause, and exercise appears to have the most powerful preventive effect on the most aggressive type of tumor.