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Radical mastectomy was once standard treatment for even localized breast cancer, but a new study shows that lumpectomy, a procedure in which only the cancerous lump is removed, can be nearly as effective when combined with radiation...
...newborn girl's chance of suffering from breast cancer sometime in her life is higher than previously reckoned: it's 1 in 8. The new estimate is based on more sophisticated statistical analysis...
...other genetic discoveries, Medical School Assistant Professor of Pediatrics Dr. Stephen H. Friend reported a new technique designed to make testing for breast and other cancers easier, quicker and cheaper...
...June 22, 1974, Bobby's prison records report, "This inmate grabbed another inmate and sucked his right breast." Shaw received a disciplinary warning, but the incident caused so much commotion among the prison population that Shaw was transferred. The following August, he got into a fight with another inmate, then sidestepped a guard who tried to intervene and attacked the inmate again. The prison administration apparently found Shaw's behavior bizarre enough to call in a psychiatrist. First Bobby was given Valium. A month later, he began taking Mellaril, an antipsychotic drug often used to stabilize schizophrenia patients. In December...
Vegetable fats, implicated in breast cancer in research on animals, don't seem to have an effect in humans. And a new drug, Taxotere, appears to shrink breast tumors...