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• Fruits, Veggies Tied to Lower Breast Cancer Risk

  

  Posted 8:07 PM 12/6/2012

  Dec. 6, 2012 -- Women now have one more reason to eat their fruits and veggies.

  A new study suggests that women with higher levels of carotenoids (nutrients found in fruits and vegetables) have a lower risk of breast cancer -- especially cancers that are harder to treat and have a poorer prognosis.

  When researchers from Harvard Medical School pooled the results of (More)
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• UV Nail Lamps Safe, Study Suggests

  

  Posted 8:31 AM 12/6/2012

  Dec. 6, 2012 -- Widely used UV nail lamps are highly unlikely to cause skin cancer, even if used weekly for 250 years, a new study suggests.

  The finding contradicts the feeling of many dermatologists that the devices are as harmful as tanning beds. That feeling is largely based on a 2009 report of (More)
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• Longer Tamoxifen Use Helps Breast Cancer Survival

  

  Posted 8:30 PM 12/5/2012

  Dec. 5, 2012 -- Doubling the time that breast cancer patients take tamoxifen cuts the risk that the cancer will come back and further lowers the risk of dying of the disease, a new study shows.

  The study is expected to change the way doctors prescribe tamoxifen, a drug that (More)
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• Breath Test May Detect Colon Cancer

  

  Posted 4:01 AM 12/5/2012

  Dec. 5, 2012 -- A breath test similar to the one used to determine when a driver has had too much to drink shows promise as a screening tool for cancer.

  In a new study from Italy, researchers were able to identify patients with colorectal cancer with an accuracy of over 75% by analyzing samples of their breath.

  Cancer Breath Test

  Similar research is under way to develop (More)
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• Diabetes Drug Metformin May Fight Cancer

  

  Posted 4:01 AM 12/3/2012

  Dec. 3, 2012 -- One of the oldest, cheapest, and most widely used diabetes drugs may be a promising new cancer treatment.

  In new research from the Mayo Clinic, ovarian cancer (More)
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• 'Chemo Brain' Real, Not Just Patient's Imagination

  

  Posted 8:58 PM 11/29/2012

  Nov. 29, 2012 (Chicago) -- For cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy who have found their complaints of general mental fogginess and haziness dismissed by their doctors as not being a real medical condition, vindication has arrived.

  Using (More)
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• Breast Cancer: Are Yearly Mammograms Worthwhile?

  

  Posted 9:01 PM 11/21/2012

  Nov. 21, 2012 -- Women over age 40 are often urged to get yearly mammograms with the promise that early detection is their best hope for beating breast cancer.

  But a new study published in The New England Journal of Medicine suggests that mammograms may not save as many lives as doctors once thought.

  The study also finds that the tests may be responsible for (More)
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• Adding 3-D Mammograms May Improve Accuracy

  

  Posted 8:33 PM 11/20/2012

  Nov. 20, 2012 -- Although mammograms remain the gold standard for breast cancer screening, they are not the perfect test.

  They don't find up to 30% of cancers, and they often find something that may be suspicious for cancer but really isn't after additional testing. These are called false-positive (More)
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• Brooke Burke-Charvet Has Thyroid Cancer

  

  Posted 2:15 PM 11/9/2012

  Brooke Burke-Charvet, co-host of Dancing With the Stars, announced Thursday that she has thyroid cancer. The 41-year-old mother of four will undergo surgery to have a thyroidectomy, a procedure to remove part or all of the thyroid gland.

  The thyroid (More)
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• Statins Linked to Reduced Cancer Death

  

  Posted 9:03 PM 11/7/2012

  Nov. 7, 2012 -- Statins -- widely prescribed drugs used to help prevent death from heart disease -- may play a role in reducing risk for cancer death, too, a new study (More)
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