Research News for 2006
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Group Therapy Helps Ease Breast Cancer Stress
A breast cancer diagnosis can bring out so many difficult emotions—fear, anger, resentment, hopelessness, and more. It is a big challenge to learn how to cope with these feelings along with the stress ...
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High Vitamin D Levels May Help Slow Growth of Advanced-Stage Breast Cancer
A very small study found that some women with advanced-stage breast cancer had lower vitamin D levels than women with early-stage breast cancer. But this study is very small and it's difficult to know ...
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Estrogen Levels May Explain Why Breast Cancer Diagnosed More Often in Certain Ethnic Groups
Research has shown that breast cancer is diagnosed more or less frequently in different ethnic groups in the United States. But scientists aren't sure why these differences happen. Differences in genet...
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Breast Cancer Risk Not Affected by Abortion
Research has shown that women who have had at least one full-term pregnancy have a lower risk of breast cancer. In other words, having at least one baby after being pregnant for nine months lowers your...
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Obese Women More Likely to Have Reconstruction Complications
The results of a study are important for significantly obese women who are considering breast reconstruction after mastectomy.
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Doctors Recommend Less Treatment for Older Women
Earlier research has shown that older women (70 and older) get as much benefit from chemotherapy as younger women do. Yet a new study adds to growing evidence that doctors tend to recommend less treatm...
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Breast Cancer Risk Lower in Women with History of Ovarian Cysts
Benign (not cancerous) ovarian cysts are fairly common. Some women with ovarian cysts also have problems with infertility and irregular menstrual cycles, which suggests that ovarian cysts may be associ...
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Exercise Can Help Women Avoid Some Radiation Side Effects
Anemia is one of several side effects that radiation can cause. While small, a study found that exercise helped women avoid anemia. This is another reason for women diagnosed with breast cancer to incl...
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Herceptin Plus Arimidex Can Help Treat Advanced-Stage Breast Cancer
Advanced breast cancers that are hormone-receptor-positive are commonly treated with hormonal therapy medicines such as Arimidex (chemical name: anastrazole). Advanced HER2-positive breast cancers are ...
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Femara Reduces Recurrence Risk
Hormonal therapy has been shown to be very effective in reducing the risk of hormone-receptor-positive, early-stage breast cancer coming back (recurring) in postmenopausal women. To reduce the risk of ...
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