Confusion over breast cancer signs
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Many women are confused about what are the danger signs of breast cancer, a survey suggests.
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Even among relatively young  women with early-stage breast cancer, the side effects of  therapy can vary by age, according to a new study.
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NEW YORK  - Women in their 40s, who tend to  have relatively dense breast tissue, are more likely to have a  breast tumor missed on a screening mammogram than are older  women, new study findings suggest.
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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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In women with breast cancer, the probability of dying from that malignancy, as opposed to some other cause, can range from 3 percent to 85 percent, depending on factors such as disease stage and patient age at diagnosis, new research shows.
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Hair from women with breast  cancer can be distinguished from hair obtained from women  without the disease, researchers in Australia report.
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Mammograms are not as effective at detecting potentially life-threatening breast cancers in thin women, those taking hormone replacement therapy (HRT) and those who have had previous breast surgery as they are in other women, scientists reveal today.
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Women are being urged to check their breasts for cancer after research today revealed widespread complacency. One in five women surveyed admitted they never check their breasts for
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A new study finds that, for some women, a mammogram may not be the best way to detect early breast cancer. Researchers say women who have the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genetic mutations run a better chance of having
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October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. For more information about breast cancer, call toll free 1 (800) ACS-2345 or visit www.cancer.
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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, breast surgery and a low body weight all make it harder to detect breast cancer, scientists have discovered.
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Mammograms have become a rite of passage for 40-year-old American women, and a compulsory exercise for those over 40. But as rote as those annual screenings might seem, there's nothing routine about a diagnosis of breast cancer.
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Cancers were harder to detect in the breasts of lower-weight women who were also more likely to develop cancers between screenings, according to a study.
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True or false: Breast cancer is less likely to strike a woman who has no family history of the disease. Believe it or not, the answer is &quot;false.
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Women who are obese when they are diagnosed with early-stage breast cancer are at a greater risk of dying of their disease than women of normal weight.
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Removing only one to three key lymph nodes instead of the usual dozen or more can spare women lifelong arm problems and reliably indicate whether breast cancer has spread