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Breast Cancer
Risk of cardiac death after radiation has decreased dramatically
April 7th, 2005
In the largest and most comprehensive prospective study of its kind, researchers at The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center have concluded that the risk of ischemic heart disease and, ultimately, cardiac death following radiation treatment for breast cancer has steadily declined over the last quarter century. This study offers scientific evidence to what was long thought to be true but never proven: improvements in radiation techniques and delivery have greatly impacted radiation-associated cardiac mortality. The research was published in the March 16, 2005, issue of the Journal of the National Cancer Institute (Risk of cardiac death after adjuvant...
Source: Women's Health Weekly (2005-04-07)
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