Research News for 2008
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Lab Study Suggests Second-Hand Smoke Ups Risk
Exposure to nicotine from cigarettes you smoke as well from second-hand smoke from other people's cigarettes seems to make breast cancer cells grow and spread.
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Changes in Heart Rate May Cause Sleeping Problems During Treatment
Changes in heart rate patterns and cortisol levels seem to be linked to sleeping problems in women being treated for advanced (metastatic) breast cancer.
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Doctors Not Recommending Mammograms for Medicaid Patients
A new study shows that women in the North Carolina Medicaid program aren't getting regular mammograms because the screening isn't recommended by their doctors.
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No Link Between Coffee and Risk
A new study provides more evidence that there seems to be no link between caffeine and breast cancer risk.
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Zoladex May Help Reduce Risk of Recurrence
After surgery and other treatments for hormone-receptor-positive early-stage breast cancer in premenopausal women, treatment with the hormonal therapy medicine Zoladex (chemical name: goserelin) can lower the risk of the cancer coming back and improve overall prognosis.
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Protective Tamoxifen May Lead to Earlier Diagnosis of Hormone-Receptor-Negative Cancer
Women at high risk who took tamoxifen and developed hormone-receptor-NEGATIVE breast cancer had the cancer diagnosed earlier compared to women who didn't take tamoxifen. (Tamoxifen doesn't reduce the risk of hormone-receptor-negative breast cancer.)
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If Cancer Comes Back After Lumpectomy, Mastectomy May be Best Choice
Women who had lumpectomy to treat an initial breast cancer and then had lumpectomy again to treat breast cancer that came back in the same breast had lower survival rates in the 10 years after the second surgery compared to women who had lumpectomy as the first surgery and then mastectomy as the second surgery.
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Genetic Test Results Can Offer Peace of Mind
Women at high risk for breast cancer who had genetic testing benefited psychologically from knowing the results of the test.
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Computer-Aided Detection Offers Same Accuracy as Double Reading Mammograms
A large study found that two ways to read mammograms -- computer-aided detection and double reading -- were both about 87% accurate in finding breast cancer.
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Bigger Babies May Have Higher Breast Cancer Risk
Researchers have found an association between birth size and the risk of breast cancer later in life.
