Can You Still Get Breast Cancer If You Have Implants?
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A thoughtful column in the Washington Post this week makes a good point: that the public and the media may be too quick to jump on promising breast cancer research and declare it as more of a “victory” than it really may be. And, as a result of the media hoopla, women who might not ever develop breast cancer may be too quick to take drugs to prevent breast cancer, even though the drugs bring their own harmful side effects. A case in point: How the osteoporosis drug raloxifene is now being...
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