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Stigma part of breast cancer's grip on poor
WASHINGTON - Nurses were training women in rural Mexico to examine their breasts for cancer when one raised her hand to object. If she lost her breast, Harvard public health specialist Felicia Knaul recalls the woman saying, "My man would leave me" - and with him, the family's income.
Nations:Mexico Malawi Rwanda Source:(AP)
2009-11-02
Ohio wife, husband both battling breast cancer
MONROE, Ohio - A husband and wife are both undergoing treatment for breast cancer in a case that illustrates how the disease can strike both sexes. Mike and Barbara Welsh, of Monroe, in southwestern Ohio, each had surgery this year after separate discoveries that they had breast cancer.
Nations:U.S. Source:(AP)
2009-10-13
Precancer? Earliest cancer? Milk-duct cells vexing
WASHINGTON - Some doctors tell patients they have "stage zero" breast cancer. Others call it a precancer.
Nations:U.S. Source:(AP)
2009-09-25
Study: Weightlifting helps breast cancer survivors
Breast cancer survivors have been getting bum advice. For decades, many doctors warned that lifting weights or even heavy groceries could cause painful arm swelling. New research shows that weight training actually helps prevent this problem.
Source:(AP)
2009-08-13
Study: 1 in 3 breast cancer patients overtreated
LONDON - One in three breast cancer patients identified in public screening programs may be treated unnecessarily, a new study says. Karsten Jorgensen and Peter Gotzsche of the Nordic Cochrane Centre in Copenhagen analyzed breast cancer trends at least seven years before and after government-run screening programs for breast cancer started in parts of Australia, Britain, Canada, Norway and Sweden.
Nations:Canada Denmark Sweden Netherlands Australia Source:(AP)
2009-07-11
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