Fewer breast cancers linked to less hormone therapy
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A sharp decline in new breast cancer cases in 2003 in the United States have come because millions of older women ceased hormone replacement therapy the previous year, researchers said on Thursday.
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Does less fat equal less breast cancer? That&#39;s a question many Canadian women are asking as Dr. Norman Boyd&#39;s unique diet and breast cancer study goes into its final year.
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Tiny differences in genes linked to the hormone estrogen can strongly influence a woman's risk of developing breast cancer, U.S. researchers reported on Wednesday.
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About a quarter of US women who stopped taking hormone replacement therapy after it was found to raise the risk of heart disease and some cancers have gone back on it, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists said
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Some women with breast cancer are less likely to have their tumours picked up by scans, say experts.
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Radiation therapy after surgery greatly reduces the chances a woman&#39;s breast cancer will recur, a new study confirms. But follow-up radiation treatment was of the least benefit to women aged 60 or older with
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Hormone replacement therapy, breast surgery and a low body weight all make it harder to detect breast cancer, scientists have discovered.
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Postmenopausal women with early breast cancer who take tamoxifen for five years appear to have a 30 percent lower risk of dying from coronary heart disease than
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Women whose breast cancer is detected  by mammography have a lower risk of the cancer recurring after  treatment compared to those who discover a tumor by other  means, a Finnish study said on Tuesday.
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Mammography may be less effective in detecting breast cancer in women with certain characteristics, including use of hormone replacement therapy, previous breast surgery and normal or
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WASHINGTON Oct. 1, 2004 - Despite its clear risks and bad press, hormone therapy remains the best treatment for some women suffering miserable menopause symptoms and it is inappropriate for doctors to withhold
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Overweight and obese women have a  lower risk of breast cancer prior to menopause, researchers  said on Monday in a finding they said both puzzles them and  contradicts conventional wisdom.
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Hormone replacement therapy can raise the risk of an uncommon type of breast cancer fourfold after just three years, U.S. researchers reported on Monday.
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Breast cancer screening has nearly halved the number of deaths from the disease, according to a study of women seen on the NHS published today
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NEW YORK  - A new study indicates that  women with abnormally low thyroid function -- a condition known  as hypothyroidism -- seem to be protected to some degree  against breast cancer.
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Rates of the most common form of breast cancer dropped from August 2002 to December 2003, researchers reported.
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SAN ANTONIO -- The first experiment ever to show that low-fat diets could help prevent a return of breast cancer now reveals, with longer follow-up, that the benefit was almost exclusively to women whose tumor growth was not driven by hormones.