HEALTHBEAT: Effort to address breast cancer in poor countries focuses on exams, cheaper chemo Nurses were training women in rural Mexico to examine ...
HEALTHBEAT: Specialists plan how to counter troubling breast cancer rise in poorest countries Nurses were training women in rural Mexico to examine their ...
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A small but growing number of women with breast cancer are choosing to have the unaffected breast removed in an effort to prevent a recurrence, researchers reported Monday. Using data from New York State hospitals, the researchers ...
More women are having both breasts removed after cancer is diagnosed in one, even though there is little evidence that a double mastectomy can improve survival, a study showed Monday. Researchers at the Roswell Park Cancer Institute in New York state found ...
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - In premenopausal women with breast cancer, taking the breast cancer drug tamoxifen significantly reduces the risk of developing a second cancer in the other breast, according to a Swedish study. This is the first study to show ...
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Adding the common diabetes drug metformin to chemotherapy helped shrink breast cancer tumors faster in mice and keep them away longer than chemotherapy alone, raising hope for a more effective way to treat cancer, U.S. researchers said on Monday. ...
