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Australian bid to 'regrow' breasts after cancer surgery

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created Nov 12, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Australian scientists said Thursday they were to trial a revolutionary treatment which would allow women to regrow their breasts after cancer surgery.


Additional, specialized radiation not necessary for some women after mastectomy

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created Nov 03, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

After mastectomy, breast cancer patients who receive radiation treatment to the lymph nodes located behind the breast bone do not live longer than those who do not receive radiation to this hard-to-treat area, according to ...





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Plastic surgeons offer microsurgery technique for breast reconstruction, tummy tuck after mastectomy

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created Nov 05, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Since her teens, Jennifer Jablon had watched family members deal with breast cancer during their 40s, 50s, and 60s. She wondered whether it would be her fate too.


Poor countries see troubling rise in breast cancer

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created Nov 02, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(AP) -- Nurses were training women in rural Mexico to examine their breasts for cancer when one raised her hand to object. If she lost her breast, Harvard public health specialist Felicia Knaul recalls the woman saying, ...


New advice: Skip mammograms in 40s, start at 50 (AP)

New mammogram advice raises questions, concerns

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created Nov 16, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- For many women, getting a mammogram is already one of life's more stressful experiences. Now, women in their 40s have the added anxiety of trying to figure out if they should even be getting one at ...



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