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Breast Cancer
Treatment for breast cancer evaluated as a cause for other mortality
September 29th, 2005
Treatment for breast cancer has been evaluated as a cause for other mortality. "Radiotherapy for early breast cancer can decrease breast cancer mortality but increase other mortality, mainly from heart disease and lung cancer," according to a report published in The Lancet Oncology. "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," wrote S. C. Darby and colleagues. "Particularly during the 1970s, when typical heart and...
Source: Women's Health Weekly (2005-09-29)
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