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Anxiety, Not Depression, Seems to Be Problem for Long-Term Cancer Survivors and Spouses
A study suggests that anxiety is likely to be the biggest mental health issue for long-term cancer survivors and their spouses.
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Expanding Medicaid Coverage Offers Mixed Health Results Study Suggests
A study suggests that Medicaid doesn’t really improve the health of people covered, but does increase the use of preventive services and the rate of diabetes diagnoses, while lowering depression rates and reducing the financial stress of paying for healthcare.
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Exercise May Lower Risk by Changing Estrogen Metabolism
A new study helps explain how exercise seems to lower breast cancer risk.
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Few Women Exercise Regularly 10 Years After Diagnosis
A study suggests that very few women who’ve been diagnosed with breast cancer meet U.S. national exercise recommendations during the 10 years after diagnosis.
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Study Suggests Full-Fat Dairy Products May Be Linked to Worse Survival
A study suggests that women diagnosed with early-stage breast cancer who eat full-fat dairy products after diagnosis are more likely to die from breast cancer than women who eat low-fat dairy products after diagnosis.
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Many Women Newly Diagnosed with Breast Cancer Have PTSD Symptoms
A study has found that about 23% of women newly diagnosed with breast cancer had PTSD symptoms.
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Pregnancy After Diagnosis Doesn’t Seem to Affect Recurrence Risk
A study suggests that women who get pregnant after being diagnosed with breast cancer have the same recurrence risk as women who don’t get pregnant after being diagnosed.
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Aerobic Exercise Helps Ease Cancer-Related Fatigue
A new review of studies on exercise and cancer-related fatigue adds more and stronger evidence that aerobic exercise can help relieve fatigue associated with cancer and cancer treatment.
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Paxil May Ease Hot Flashes
Two studies suggest that a low dose of the antidepressant medicine Paxil can lower the number and severity of hot flashes in some women.
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Exercise, Counseling Can Help Ease Menopausal Symptoms Caused by Breast Cancer Treatment
A Dutch study has found that exercise and a type of counseling called cognitive behavioral therapy can help ease menopausal symptoms that often come during and after breast cancer treatment.
