Fewer breast patients may need chemo
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Thousands of breast cancer patients each year could be spared chemotherapy or get gentler versions of it without harming their odds of beating the disease, new research suggests.
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Some women claim they don&#39;t have time to get a mammogram. Others believe that with no history of breast cancer in their families, they don&#39;t need one.
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About half of the patients in the US with aggressive non-Hodgkin&#39;s lymphoma, (NHL), cancer of the lymph glands, are not receiving the full dose of chemotherapy that
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A new genetic test can tell doctors which breast cancer patients need to undergo the discomfort of chemotherapy -- and suggests many women don&#39;t need to, researchers said on Friday.
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A genetic test for patients with  early breast cancer can identify that only some of them will be  helped by chemotherapy, but for those women the benefits far  outweigh the drawbacks, researchers said on Friday.
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Survey shows many doctors are not proactively discussing breast cancer awareness with patients
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Study of aromatase inhibitors indicate they could reduce the chances that many breast cancer patients will develop a new cancer in the other breast or have the cancer spread elsewhere.
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NEW YORK  - Women with breast cancer who  take tamoxifen are less likely to have a heart attack than  women with other types of cancer who are not taking the drug,  according to a new report.
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Women over the age of 70 who have small breast cancer tumours removed in surgery need not bother with follow-up radiation treatment if they take the cancer drug tamoxifen, according to two new studies.
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At a time when more people are cured of cancer than ever before, fewer doctors seem willing to say so.
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Proportion of breast cancer patients who undergo unnecessary double mastectomies increases.
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A genetic test for patients with early breast cancer can identify that only some of them will be helped by chemotherapy, but for those women the benefits far outweigh the drawbacks, researchers said on Friday.
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The number of women being screened for breast cancer is worryingly low in many areas, campaigners say.
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Older, less educated and lower-income women are less likely to get a mammogram even when their insurance pays for it, and those who go without mammograms are more likely not to be diagnosed with breast cancer until the disease has advanced, according to a
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NEW YORK  - Some types of chemotherapy are  known to be potentially damaging to the heart, but for most  women with breast cancer the benefits appear to outweigh the  risks, French researchers report.
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Among women who have been  treated for breast cancer, those who stick to a healthy diet  and are moderately active seem to live longer, results of a new  study indicate. A good diet alone or exercise alone doesn&#39;t  have the same benefit.
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WEDNESDAY, Jan. 5 (HealthDayNews) -- Women whose breast cancer is detected by physical examination are about three times more likely to receive chemotherapy than women whose breast cancer is detected by mammography, a Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center study finds.