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Popular breast cancer treatment increases risk of mastectomy
Brachytherapy is an increasingly popular option for women with early-stage breast cancer. After a lumpectomy to remove abnormal tissue, doctors insert either a series of tubes or a catheter attached to a small balloon into the breast. A radioactive source...
Tags: Cancer, Medicare, University of Chicago, University of California, Los Angeles, Medical Research
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Warren Buffett's stage 1 prostate cancer: What is it, what's next?
Warren Buffett announced Tuesday that he has stage 1 prostate cancer and that doctors have begun treating it with radiation. Buffett is 81 and, at that age, it would be more surprising if he didn't have it. A full 80% of men older than 80 have some form...
Tags: Prostate Cancer, Diseases and Illnesses, Human Body, Cancer, Prostate
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The New War on Cancer
It used to be that the cancer doctor’s toolbox contained three essential tools — a scalpel to cut out the disease, chemo to poison it and radiation to zap it.
But today that toolbox is bulging with new and better weapons.
“We’re...Tags: Prostate Cancer, Lung Cancer, Religion and Belief, Diseases and Illnesses, Genes and Chromosomes
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At Americas summit, Obama says no to legalizing drugs
CARTAGENA, Colombia — President Obama sought Saturday to emphasize the robust economic relationship between the United States and Latin America, and he flatly ruled out legalizing drugs as a way to combat the illegal trafficking that has ravaged the...
Tags: U.S. Secret Service, Drug Trafficking, Cancer, Labor Legislation, Elections
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My Turn: Carrying on in the wake of tragedy
I like to help people. Tell me what's wrong, and I'll take on anyone and anything to try to make it better. Then news came about a boy, and everything changed.
A family in our community lost their teenage son when he fell from the fifth-floor balcony...Tags: Health Treatments, Lung Cancer, Cancer, Health
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My Turn: Radiation patients share a survivor's song
There is dancing today in the radiation waiting room. Upright and youthful-looking despite his lined face, the smiling man jitterbugs with any woman who accepts his courteously offered hand.
The music he provides by way of a small radio, turned low so as...Tags: Fine Arts, Diseases and Illnesses, Cancer, Music, Chemotherapy
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PASSINGS: Wyatt Knight
Wyatt Knight, 56, an actor best known for portraying Tommy Turner in the three "Porky's" films, committed suicide Oct. 25 in Maui, said Eileen O'Farrell, a family spokeswoman.
An autopsy determined that Knight died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound,...Tags: Hodgkins Disease, Suicide, Health Treatments, Health
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David Servan-Schreiber dies at 50; physician wrote about cancer battle
Reporting from Paris -- When he was diagnosed with a malignant brain tumor 20 years ago, David Servan-Schreiber, the French-born doctor, neuroscientist and later bestselling author, took the phrase "physician, heal thyself" to heart.
Submitting to the...Tags: Diseases and Illnesses, Biotechnology, Hospitals and Clinics, Paris (France), Journalism
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A sleeve for the intestine: As effective as bariatric surgery, without the surgery part?
For patients who are obese and have Type 2 diabetes, gastric bypass can be a remarkable cure: After such surgery, more than three-quarters of such patients can significantly reduce or discontinue their diabetes drugs within a year, studies show. With that...Tags: Intestine, Hormones and Metabolism, Harvard University, Diseases and Illnesses, Human Body
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Many men with low-risk prostate cancer overtreated, study finds
About three-quarters of men with low-risk prostate tumors that can safely be ignored for months or years receive aggressive treatment, despite the risk of complications, researchers reported Monday. The findings, published in the Archives of Internal...Tags: Prostate Cancer, Diseases and Illnesses, Cancer, Prostate, Health and Medical Professionals
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My Turn: With age, the wisdom to fight cancer
I am now almost finished with my journey of medical treatment for breast cancer. I have been given examinations, explanations and expectations; I have gone through and successfully recovered from surgery; I have just completed a schedule of radiation...Tags: Diseases and Illnesses, Human Body, Cancer, Health Treatments, Breast Cancer
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Worried about radiation danger?
UCLA professor Keisuke Iwamoto answered reader questions about the dangers of radiation exposure in a live Web chat Thursday.
Iwamoto, a faculty member at UCLA's Division of Molecular and Cellular Oncology, studies radiation exposure and how it can...Tags: Disasters, Diseases and Illnesses, X-rays, Oncology, Medical Research
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