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Breast Cancer Patients May Have Better Odds if They're Pregnant
Getting breast cancer when you're pregnant isn't a death sentence. Credit: Jose Luis Pelaez/Getty Images
You're six months pregnant when you find a lump in your breast. The doctor tells you it's cancer.
Believe it or not, the news could be ...Learning you have cancer, of course, is never good news. But if you're going to get breast cancer, pregnancy may strangely be the best time to have it.
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Fomula scandal prompts call for return to breastfeeding
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Self breast exams - Are they worth the effort?
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Regular exercise may protect teens from future breast cancer
Recent research has discovered that girls who exercise in their preteen and teen years may protect themselves from developing breast cancer later in life. It's thought that regular exercise creates slight hormonal changes that have a protective ...
Does breast feeding reduce breast cancer risk?
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Breast cancer awareness t-shirts banned at Kansas school
October is Breast Cancer Awareness month and the shirt pictured here was designed to raise awareness with a sense of humor. Kelly Rooney, who died from breast cancer in 2006, came up with the idea and her family now sells the shirts online with 50% ...Beware of a different kind of breast cancer
One out of every eight women will receive the news that they have breast cancer at some point in there lives. As horrible as that statistic is, there is more to be aware of when it comes to breast cancer. Most of us believe there is but one form of ...Morning sickness reduces breast cancer risk
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I don't know too many women who haven't been impacted by breast cancer. It seems we all know someone who has struggled with the devastating disease . I myself have had three separate scares: benign fibroaedenomas removed from my left breast in three ...Breastfeeding may prevent breast cancer
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