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• Angelina Jolie's Double Mastectomy: Q&A

  

  Posted 8:45 PM 5/14/2013

  May 14, 2013 -- Actress and activist Angelina Jolie's recent decision to have a preventive double mastectomy highlights the difficult choices facing women who find out they have a high risk for breast cancer because of their genes.

  Although relatively rare, mutations in the BRCA1 and (More)
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• Night Shifts May Raise Risk of Ovarian Cancer

  

  Posted 9:13 PM 3/15/2013

  March 15, 2013 -- Another study has shown a link between night-shift work and cancer, this time an increase in the risk of ovarian cancer.

  Much of the previous work on the link between cancer and night work has focused on (More)
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• Q&A: Valerie Harper's Cancer

  

  Posted 9:49 PM 3/6/2013

  March 6, 2013 -- Actress Valerie Harper, best known for her role as Rhoda Morgenstern on The Mary Tyler Moore Show and Rhoda in the 1970s, has learned she has leptomeningeal carcinomatosis.

  The condition happens when cancer spreads to the brain and spinal cord.

  Now 73, Harper told People magazine she received the diagnosis in January.

  The American (More)
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• Q&A: Breast Cancer in Young Women

  

  Posted 9:22 PM 2/28/2013

  Feb. 28, 2013 -- Young women found the news surprising and more than a little scary: Cases of advanced breast cancer have been rising in women 25 to 39 over the past three decades, researchers reported this week.

  From 1976 to 2009, the number of cases of advanced breast (More)
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• Supercomputer Watson Takes on Cancer

  

  Posted 5:29 PM 2/15/2013

  Feb. 15, 2013 -- IBM's Watson, the supercomputer that grabbed headlines after beating the best contestants on Jeopardy!, now is setting its sights on cancer.

  Two years after Watson's victory on the game show, IBM is offering up the pizza-box-sized computer for health care. Its developers have chosen to debut it prominently in cancer care.

  Watson's first application is (More)
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• Cancer as a Death Sentence & Other Myths Dispelled

  

  Posted 8:52 PM 2/4/2013

  Feb. 4, 2013 -- Today, on World Cancer Day, the organization behind this annual event is aiming to dispel several myths about cancer.

  The Union for International Cancer Control (UICC) is trying to counteract the myths that cancer is a death sentence and a disease of the wealthy, the elderly, and developed countries.

  In fact, more than half of the deaths from cancer (55%) happen (More)
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• Which Cancer Tests Do You Really Need?

  

  Posted 10:21 PM 2/1/2013

  Feb. 1, 2013 -- Not all cancer screening tests are helpful, and some are potentially harmful, according to a new Consumer Reports rating.

  In the new report, Consumer Reports recommends only three of 11 common cancer screening tests, and then only for certain age groups.

  Screenings for cervical, (More)
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• Cancer Death Rates Drop 20% Over 2 Decades

  

  Posted 9:43 PM 1/17/2013

  Jan. 17, 2013 -- Cancer death rates have fallen by 20% from their peak about 20 years ago, according to the latest statistics from the American Cancer Society.

  This means that from 1991 to 2009, 1.2 million lives were spared, including 152,900 lives in 2009 alone.

  "The big picture is that progress is steady, and for the four major cancer sites, progress is even more rapid," (More)
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• Pap Test to Detect Ovarian, Endometrial Cancers?

  

  Posted 8:26 PM 1/9/2013

  Jan. 9, 2013 -- A new test for ovarian and endometrial cancers looks at cervical fluid obtained during a routine Pap test to detect genetic mutations linked with the cancers.

  Although the research is in early stages, the test did well in detecting these cancers, says researcher Yuxuan Wang, a graduate student at the Ludwig Center for Cancer Genetics and Therapeutics at the Johns (More)
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• Most Cancer Deaths Continue to Drop

  

  Posted 9:17 PM 1/7/2013

  Fewer Americans are dying from cancer.

  This is one main take-away from the latest report on cancer death rates and new diagnoses of cancer in the U.S. This decline is seen among men and women across all major racial and ethnic groups, and for 17 of the most common types of cancer including lung, colon, breast, and prostate cancers.

  Still, not all of the news from the new report (More)
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