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Despite Risks, Vitamins Popular With Cancer Patients
12-02-2008
Vitamin use is common among the nation’s 10 million cancer survivors, despite little evidence that supplements help and worries that some may actually fuel the disease.
Researchers at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle reviewed 32 studies conducted between 1999 and 2006.
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Chemotherapy 101
8-02-2008
Too many myths surround chemotherapy. It’s time for the facts, and only the facts. I AM losing my hair and it is not because I am receiving chemotherapy for cancer. It is because I pull out my hair each time a patient tells me, “I don’t want to undertake chemotherapy because chemotherapy kills the good cells as well as the bad cells.”
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Guts and cancer
27-01-2008
In the first of this two-part series, we look at the malignant diseases of the upper gastrointestinal tract.
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Intimate Apparel
16-01-2008
When my mom took me shopping for my first bra, I was terrified that a classmate might see me. I kept my head low as she guided me through the dense jungle of satin straps and cups, and I nearly died of humiliation when she asked where the training bras were located.
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