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Surviving Breast Cancer
The number of women who survive breast cancer for at least 10 years has almost doubled since the 1970's, a new analysis has found, and many other cancers show that level of improvement as well. Less than 40 percent of women with breast cancer diagnosed in the early 1970s lived for ten years, while that number is now 77 percent. The survival rate for ovarian cancer has also doubled, as bowel cancer and lymphoma.
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From Our Experts
Surviving Breast Cancer: Putting Your Emotions to the Test
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Surviving Breast Cancer Prepares You for Anything
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Improving Survival in Breast Cancer: Lignans in your Diet? Vitamin D?
I am pondering the announcement of a study to be discussed next weekend on Vitamin D and breast cancer. I'm starting to look through the... Read more »
Life after Surviving Breast Cancer
Cancer research seems to be picking up speed, discoveries building upon one another and treatments changing ever more quickly as... Read more »
Set Goals to Survive Breast Cancer
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From Our Sources
Stress Reduction Aids Survival in Breast Cancer Patients
Women who underwent psychological intervention during an initial bout of breast cancer handled the stress of recurrence and even had longer survival... Read more »
Breast MRI and the New American Cancer Society Guidelines for ...
My technician recently told me, just before sending me gliding through an MRI tube, that MRI scans were once an uncommon breast exam. He performed... Read more »
Chemo increases breast cancer survival in older women: study
Older women with breast cancer who undergo chemotherapy in addition to surgery and radiation may live longer than women who don't undergo chemo,... Read more »
Newer drugs boost breast cancer survival--and osteoporosis ris...
Postmenopausal breast cancer patients who switch from tamoxifen therapy to aromatase inhibitors boost their chances for survival from the disease.... Read more »
Diet tied to breast cancer survival
Researchers say weight loss isn't the only reason healthy eating should be on your New Year's resolution list: it may also decrease your risk of... Read more »
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