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Breast Cancer
Research on breast cancer published by N.S. Sherber et al
June 25th, 2009
"This case describes a patient who developed diffuse fasciitis with eosinophilia (DFE) after an exaggerated local response to radiation following excision of a lymph node-negative breast cancer," scientists in the United States report. "Our patient's fasciitis was diffuse, involving both upper and lower extremities and the trunk at sites distant from the irradiation and tumor site. The fasciitis progressed after curative excision of the breast cancer rather than concurrently with active breast cancer and persisted despite therapy; there was no tumor reoccurrence," wrote N.S. Sherber and colleagues. The researchers concluded: "With three published...
Source: Women's Health Weekly (2009-06-25)
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