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Risky Business: Breast Cancer Risk Factors and What We Know About Them

In In The News by Barbara Jacoby

By: Steve Schneible From: aacr.org What does it mean when we say that women in the United States face a 13% lifetime risk of developing breast cancer? According to the National Cancer Institute (NCI), that lifetime risk can be thought of as the likelihood that a woman born in the United States today will develop breast cancer at some point …

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Breast Cancer and Shingles

In In The News by Barbara Jacoby

Source: FeatureFriday From: survivingbreastcancer.org Is there a relationship? Studies indicate that there may be a correlation. Talk about one’s body multi-tasking in a most adversarial way! During a recent survivingbreastcancer.org virtual meet up, a number of the community stated they had developed shingles. The conversation stimulated much in the way of follow up. What we do know: Shingles is caused …