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Breast Cancer: Sex and Intimacy
WebMD looks at a sensitive topic for breast cancer patients: sex and intimacy. Discover ways you can keep intimacy alive even though you’re dealing with breast cancer and its treatment.
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FDA Panel: Avastin Not for Breast Cancer
By a 12-1 vote, an FDA expert advisory panel found Avastin unhelpful for breast cancer and urged the FDA to withdraw approval for this use.
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Fish Oil Linked to Lower Breast Cancer Risk
Taking fish oil supplements may help reduce breast cancer risk, shows a preliminary study.
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Breast Cancer Patients Can Be Spared Extra Surgery
For many women with early-stage breast cancer, removing more than just the sentinel lymph nodes may be unnecessary -- even if cancer cells are found.
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Sea Sponge Drug May Fight Breast Cancer
A drug derived from sea sponges extended the lives of breast cancer patients whose cancer had come back -- despite as many as five rounds of chemotherapy -- by an average of two and a half months.
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6-Month Chemo Best for Early Breast Cancer
A six-month chemotherapy regimen improves overall and disease-free survival among women with early breast cancer and lymph node involvement, when compared with two shorter regimens, a study shows.
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Why Some Breast Cancer Patients Forgo Implants
Fewer than one in three women eligible for breast reconstruction surgery following mastectomy for breast cancer undergo the procedure, according a small snapshot from four counties in California.
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Progress in Predicting Invasive Breast Cancer
Doctors are a step closer to being able to predict which women with noninvasive breast tumors will go on to develop invasive breast cancer -- and therefore whether or not they need more aggressive treatment.
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Breast Cancer Risk Differs Among Ethnic Groups
Factors that increase the risk of breast cancer for white women have less influence among women of Hispanic ethnicity, a new study shows.
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Progress in Blood Test for Breast Cancer
Levels of epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) may be elevated in the blood of women as many as 17 months prior to their breast cancer diagnosis, a finding that may lead to a blood test for breast cancer.
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Multivitamins May Cut Breast Cancer Risk
Multivitamins and calcium supplements may help protect women against breast cancer, new research suggests.
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Teen Drinking Linked to Benign Breast Disease
Teen and adolescent girls who regularly consume alcohol may be at greater risk for developing benign breast disease in their 20s than their teetotaling counterparts, Harvard researchers report in the May issue of Pediatrics.
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New Debate on Breast Removal to Prevent Cancer
A study suggests that counseling may change the minds of breast cancer survivors who are considering prophylactic mastectomy.
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Breast Cancer Treated by Freezing Tumors
In a small but promising study, researchers were able to kill breast cancer tumors by freezing them using a technique known as image-guided, multiprobe cryotherapy.
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Anticancer Effects of Aspirin: FAQ
Regular aspirin lowers the risk of breast cancer recurrence. WebMD answers frequently asked questions about aspirin and cancer.
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Paxil, Tamoxifen May Be a Risky Combo
Breast cancer patients who take the antidepressant Paxil at the same time as tamoxifen face an increased risk of dying from their disease, a new study shows.
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Radiologists: Get Mammograms Early, Often
Blasting new breast-cancer screening advice from an HHS panel, radiologists say women need annual mammograms starting no later than age 40.
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Pomegranates May Stall Breast Cancer
Eating pomegranates or drinking pomegranate juice may help prevent and slow the growth of some types of breast cancer.
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Acupuncture May Help Ease Hot Flashes
Acupuncture not only cools hot flashes that occur as a result of breast cancer treatment but may offer a host of other benefits to boost women's well-being, a study shows.
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Study: Give Herceptin at Same Time as Chemo
Researchers report that the breast cancer drug Herceptin should be given at the same time as chemotherapy, not after chemotherapy is concluded.
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