Oncology & Cancer

Stage 0 breast cancer: When should you wait and see?

In cancer, as in other areas of medicine, early detection can save lives. But the screening tests used to find early tumors also detect disease that would never cause problems - disease you'll die with but not from. Managing ...

Oncology & Cancer

Adding benign breast dz to risk model may boost preventive care

(HealthDay)—Greater numbers of high-risk women eligible for primary prevention of breast cancer are identified by incorporating benign breast disease (BBD) diagnoses into the Breast Cancer Surveillance Consortium (BCSC) ...

Surgery

Prophylactic surgery nearly doubles in men with breast cancer

The number of men with breast cancer who undergo surgery to remove the unaffected breast has risen sharply, according to a new report by American Cancer Society and Dana Farber Cancer Institute researchers. The report, appearing ...

Oncology & Cancer

When cancer makes its way to the brain

Only half of brain cancers actually start in the brain. The rest—as in the case of former President Jimmy Carter—are metastatic tumors from cancer that originated elsewhere in the body.

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