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• For Older Women, Exercise May Cut Breast Cancer Risk
• Aspirin Benefit Seen in Established Breast Cancer
• Cooking with Gas Releases More Chemicals
• Cognitive Skills May Shrink With Tamoxifen
• Few Women at High Risk for Breast Cancer Take Tamoxifen
• Shorter Radiation Course Matches Standard for Breast Cancer
• Soft Drinks Linked to Pancreatic Cancer Risk
• AAPM: Online Program Helps Manage Pain
• SSRI and Tamoxifen Increase Mortality Risk
• ASCO GI: Gene Test, Nodes Predict Colon CA Recurrence Risk
• ADT for Prostate Cancer Raises Heart Risks
• Smokers with cancer could quit and double survival
• Radiation Dose Lower With Digital Mammography
• Active Surveillance Now Prominent in NCCN Prostate Cancer Guidelines
• Obesity Disease Burden Similar to Smoking
• Radiologists Back Mammography at Age 40
• What the radiologists have to say about full-body scans
• Surgery Plus Radiation Tops New Brain Met Guidelines
• FDA Pleads for More Research on Anemia Drugs
• Obesity Disease Burden Similar to Smoking
• SABCS: Moderate Drinking Boosts Breast Cancer Recurrence
• SABCS: More Evidence that Bisphosphonates Prevent Breast Cancer
• Cancer Report Card Reveals Decline in Disease and Death
• Soy Safe for Breast Cancer Survivors
• RSNA:  Ultrasound, MRI Helpful Aids for Dense Breasts
• Cancer Report Card Reveals Decline in Disease and Death
• Soy Safe for Breast Cancer Survivors
• Young Cancer Survivors May Risk Late Recurrence
• RSNA:  Ultrasound, MRI Helpful Aids for Dense Breasts

Home Specimen Collection Boosts Cervical Cancer Screening (CME/CE)

AAD: Signal Inhibitor Active in Basal Cell Carcinoma (CME/CE)

ACS Stats Find Gains in War on Cancer