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References
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Additional
Resources:
Overviews
Follow-Up Medical Visits (see
also Overviews)
Medical News Summaries
Surveillance mammography reduces mortality in older breast cancer survivors (Aug. 3, 2007 / www.oncolink.com)
Recurrent Breast
Cancer (see also Overviews)
Long-Term
and Late Treatment Effects (see
also Overviews)
Medical News Summaries
Hormone could ease painful lymphedema (Dec. 20, 2007 / www.4woman.org/news)
Breast
cancer pain not controlled as well in non-whites (Nov.
26, 2007 / www.oncolink.com)
Dieting reduces arm lymphedema after breast cancer
treatment (Nov. 13, 2007
/ www.oncolink.com)
Leukemia
risk increases after breast cancer therapy in older
women (Sep.
24, 2007 / www.oncolink.com)
Bone
health of breast cancer patients compromised by long-term
chemotherapy (Sep.
19, 2007 / www.oncolink.com)
Anthracyclines increase heart failure risk in older breast cancer patients (Sep. 13, 2007 / www.oncolink.com)
Fatigue persists after chemotherapy in breast cancer patients (Sep. 11, 2007 / www.oncolink.com)
Timing
of breast cancer drug affects cardiac risk: study (Jul.
5, 2007 / www.4woman.org/news)
Herceptin heart danger stays same after five years (Jun.
4, 2007 / www.4woman.org/news)
Weight
loss benefits women with breast cancer-related
lymphedema (Jun.
1, 2007 / www.oncolink.com)
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also Long-Term and Late
Treatment Effects)
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