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  So the good news is that breast implants do not cause breast cancer!! The crappy news is that it looks like they cause lymphoma, a type of blood cancer. This announcement was made by the FDA at the end of ...Read More

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It's STILL radiation... It’s STILL upping your lifetime possibility of getting cancer... And, NOW it's doing all this in amazing 3-D! No, that's not the cheesy voice over to a schlocky B-level horror movie. We're talking about something real here. And ...Read More

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The New York Times continues their streak of insightful journalism on cancer with this oddly titled piece on the invisibility of metastic breast cancer. Although most people don’t think of the pink ribbon campaign as only being for people with early-stage, ...Read More

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We found a recent article on businessweek.com that continues the streak of Mammogram Confusion. This one's in the form of a distressing report from the Netherlands, highlighting the mental damage and distress women undergo after receiving a “false-positive.” A false positive ...Read More