5 New Breast Cancer Discoveries

5 new breast cancer discoveries

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(CNN) — Research presented at a just-concluded breast cancer symposium will help doctors understand how to use existing drugs better when certain drugs don't work, and how chemotherapy may not be to blame for so-called "chemo brain." Breast cancer …
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Diet and exercise help battle HIV

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Overall — despite the 10-year downward trend globally and in Massachusetts — 56,000 Americans become infected with HIV each year, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. More than 14,000 … A quarter century of medical science …
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A Long Road Ahead for Better Treatment of Valley Fever

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Hundreds of people throughout the United States in recent weeks discovered the difficulty of treating fungal infections during the outbreak of fungal meningitis caused by tainted steroidal drugs. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control reported as of Dec.
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Eribulin Equal to Older Drug in Advanced Breast Cancer

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However, "neither drug was terribly effective…when patients had been treated before," noted Kent Osborne, MD, director of the Dan L. Duncan Cancer Center and the Lester and Sue Smith Breast Center at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas, who …
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