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Cognitive Effects of Breast Cancer Treatment Related to Age (en inglés)
Many women treated with chemotherapy for breast cancer say they have a hard time remembering things, thinking, and concentrating. Doctors call these skills cognitive function.
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Tumor Hemoglobin May Aid Breast Imaging (en inglés)
A study suggests that an experimental, non-invasive way to assess suspicious areas in the breast -- called optical tomography -- may be able to help determine if an area is cancer or not. The suspiciou...
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ASE: Early Echo Predicts Heart Damage in Breast CA Therapy (en inglés)
A study suggests that a new way to measure heart damage caused by certain breast cancer treatments may find damage earlier than traditional tests.
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ASCO: Survival No Better After Axillary Node Surgery (en inglés)
Three studies suggest that routinely removing the underarm (axillary) lymph nodes during early-stage breast cancer surgery may not make sense for most women. These results were presented at the 2010 Am...
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ASCO: Sea Sponge Drug Saves Lives in Metastatic Breast CA (en inglés)
A study suggests that an experimental chemotherapy medicine called eribulin may be a good treatment option for metastatic breast cancer that has stopped responding or failed to respond to other treatme...
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Longer Chemo for Breast Cancer More Effective (en inglés)
A study suggests that treating early-stage breast cancer with two common chemotherapy medicines followed by a third (doctors call this a sequential approach) has some advantages compared to giving two ...
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ASCO: Cancer Survivors Get Benefit from Yoga (en inglés)
A study suggests that gentle yoga may ease sleep and fatigue problems and improve sleep quality in cancer survivors. The research results will be presented at the 2010 American Society of Clinical Onco...
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ARRS: Twice Yearly Mammograms Best After Lumpectomy (en inglés)
A study suggests that having mammograms twice per year after lumpectomy finds a cancer recurrence (or a new cancer) earlier than only one mammogram per year after surgery.
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IMPAKT: Simpler Gene Test Accurately Sorts Breast Cancers (en inglés)
Evaluating the characteristics of a breast cancer -- hormone-receptor status and HER2 status, for example -- helps doctors figure out which breast cancer treatments make the most sense for a specific p...
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IMPAKT: More Circulating Breast CA Cells, Worse Survival (en inglés)
Circulating tumor cells are cells that break off from a cancer tumor and move into the blood stream. Doctors sometimes test for circulating tumor cells to see if breast cancer cells are active in areas...
