Breast Cancer Health

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Asymmetrical Breasts May Raise Cancer Risk (HealthDay)	Asymmetry between a woman's breasts is normal, with few women having exactly the same-sized left and right breasts. But a new British study suggests that the greater the size difference between breasts, the higher a woman's risk of developing breast cance
Benign Breast Findings Can Still Pose Dangers (HealthDay)	Spanish ID:531284-->
Black Women More Likely to Die From Breast Cancer (HealthDay)	Black American women are 19 percent more likely than white women to die of breast cancer, a new study finds.
Breast Cancer Drugs Limit Post-Surgery Recurrence (HealthDay)	A new head-to-head study finds the chemotherapy drug docetaxel (Taxotere) beating another, vinorelbine (Navelbine), in helping extend patient survival after breast cancer surgery.
Could Antiperspirants Raise Breast Cancer Risk? (HealthDay)	Scientists believe aluminum salts found in antiperspirants could heighten breast cancer risk, but they caution that this theory requires further investigation.
Mammograms Sometimes Spot Non-Threatening Growths (HealthDay)	Getting a mammogram to detect breast cancer can save lives, but it also carries with it a 10 percent chance of being diagnosed with a &quot;nonprogressive&quot; cancer that would never have needed treatment, Swedish researchers report.
Practice Improves Mammogram Diagnosis (HealthDay)	The adage &quot;practice makes perfect&quot; may hold true for mammography, too: A new study suggests doctors become more accurate at interpreting mammograms as their experience increases.
Preventive Mastectomy Offers Women Relief (HealthDay)	Most women diagnosed with breast cancer who choose to have their unaffected breast removed along with the diseased one say they don't regret their decision, a new study finds.
Short Course of Herceptin May Limit Heart Damage (American Cancer Society)	<b>Summary:</b> Doctors from Finland confirm that early use of the drug Herceptin (trastuzumab) can keep breast cancer from returning in women whose tumors contain the protein HER2/neu. And they may have found a way to give the drug that preve
Study Confirms Tamoxifen Raises Endometrial Cancer Risk (HealthDay)	Doctors often prescribe the drug tamoxifen to breast cancer patients over the long term, to help reduce the chances of cancer recurrence.

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