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        For many women with early-stage breast cancer, treatment may become  considerably less arduous, researchers say.
A new study found that certain women getting a  lumpectomy may not need an operation to remove underarm lymph nodes, a  procedure that ...  
  
            My Dear Friends,
I just can't believe how the time flies!  On June 21st, Cancer Schmancer will be turning 3!  And to top it off, on the same day I'll be celebrating my 10 year anniversary of wellness from uterine cancer. Woohoo!
For our birthday, we...  
  
            My doctor’s call came early last month just as I was completing  a column noting that 41 percent of Americans come down with cancer.  That statistic felt as remote as a puff of cloud in the stratosphere  —  until my physician, Gary Raizes, gently...  
  
            A largely  ignored contaminant doesn’t just resemble bisphenol A, the chemical  found to leach out of hard plastic water bottles. It’s BPA’s fluorinated  twin — on steroids.
BPA's structure resembles a pair of spectacles with two methyl, or  CH3,...  
  
            Scientists Cite Advances on Two  Kinds of Cancer
 
CHICAGO — Using two opposite strategies, one focused and one broad,  scientists say they have made progress in taming two of the most  intractable types of cancer.
The focused approach shrank...  
  
    





















