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Breast Cancer
Breast cancer treatment may increase mortality from other diseases
September 15th, 2005
A form of breast cancer treatment may actually increase mortality from other diseases. "Radiotherapy for early breast cancer can decrease breast cancer mortality but increase other mortality, mainly from heart disease and lung cancer," reported scientists from the United Kingdom "The mean cardiac dose from irradiation of a left-sided breast cancer can be two or three times that for a right-sided breast cancer. The mean ipsilateral (ie, on the same side as the breast cancer) lung dose can also be two or three times the mean contralateral lung dose." "Particularly during the 1970s, when typical heart and lung exposures were greater than now, the...
Source: Women's Health Weekly (2005-09-15)
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