Eating healthy foods and staying fit can help prevent breast cancer. But breast cancer may strike despite your best efforts to follow a healthy lifestyle.
Breast cancer is the second leading cause of cancer death in American women behind lung cancer. The risk for women of getting it in their lifetime is about 1 in 8, though the risk of dying from it...
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Dan Neil: Breast cancer ads use lechery for goodOctober is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, and a new crop of public service announcements leverage male lechery to an... |
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It's Often Hard To Say Goodbye To Patients, Readers, Friends - October 11, 2009 - EDITOR'S NOTE: Today marks the last of Dr. Keating's First Opinion columns, which he has written regularly for the Courant for 7 years....
The Courage Of Patients To Face Their Hopes, Fears - October 4, 2009 - Years ago, when I was a novice therapist, Karen, a 36-year-old married obstetrician/gynecologist and her 40-year-old pediatrician husband,...
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