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Is smoking more harmful to women?
Women could be more prone than men to the carcinogens and other harmful compounds in cigarette smoke, research suggests. In a study of nearly 700 people with lung cancer, Swiss experts discovered that women tended to be younger when diagnosed, even though they smoked less than the men who went on to develop lung cancer. In another study, researchers from Harvard University and the University of Bergen in Norway examined more than 950 men and … Read entire article »
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New Exam determines personal risk of breast cancer
Examining individual breast tissue for characteristic structural traits may more accurately define a woman’s risk for developing breast cancer. On a recent release of the Journal of Clinical Oncology researchers announced that the more acini is present in a woman’s system – acini are the sacs that produce milk – and the larger her breast lobules are, the larger the chances that she will suffer from breast cancer. Derek Radisky, assistant professor of biochemistry at the Mayo Clinic and co-author of this study, stated that a vast number of women request breast biopsies from anomalous mammograms, numbering up to 1 to 2 million people per year in the US alone. “Of these, about one quarter have positive findings of cancer while the rest could immediately benefit from this kind of assessment” he … Read entire article »
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