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General Cancer Resources |
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Coping with Cancer
Managing side effects and complications caused by cancer and its treatment.
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Support and Resources
Information about cancer support organizations, finances, insurance, home care, and hospice care.
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Educational Materials About Clinical Trials
Types of trials, how they work, risks and benefits of taking part.
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Complementary and Alternative Medicine
Healing philosophies, approaches, and therapies used in addition to, or instead of, conventional cancer treatments.
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Definition of breast cancer: Cancer that forms in tissues of the breast, usually the ducts (tubes that carry milk to the nipple) and lobules (glands that make milk). It occurs in both men and women, although male breast cancer is rare.
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New cases: 182,460 (female); 1,990 (male)
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Deaths: 40,480 (female); 450 (male)
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See the online booklet What You Need To Know About Breast Cancer to learn about breast cancer symptoms, diagnosis, treatment, and questions to ask the doctor.
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For an overview of research advances, see Cancer Advances In Focus: Breast Cancer.
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Information about treatment, including surgery, chemotherapy, radiation therapy, immunotherapy, and vaccine therapy
Breast Cancer Treatment [patient] [health professional]
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Male Breast Cancer Treatment [patient] [health professional]
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Breast Cancer Treatment and Pregnancy [patient] [health professional]
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Clinical Trials to Treat Breast Cancer
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Aromatase Inhibitors Come of Age
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Information related to prevention, genetics, risk factors
Breast Cancer Prevention [patient] [health professional]
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Genetics of Breast and Ovarian Cancer [health professional]
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Clinical Trials to Prevent Breast Cancer
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Drop in Breast Cancer Rates Related to HRT Decline
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Breast Cancer Risk Assessment Tool
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Alcohol and Breast Cancer Risk: New Findings
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Information about methods of cancer detection including new imaging technologies, tumor markers, and biopsy procedures
Breast Cancer Screening [patient] [health professional]
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Clinical Trials to Screen for Breast Cancer
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Annual Mammography Benefits Older Survivors
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Computer Aid Reduces Accuracy of Mammograms
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MRI Detects Cancers in the Opposite Breast
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Get a Mammogram
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Information and current news about clinical trials and trial-related data
Breast Cancer Trial Results
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Clinical Trials for Breast Cancer
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How to Find a Cancer Treatment Trial
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New Study of Targeted Therapies for Breast Cancer
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The TAILORx Breast Cancer Trial
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BreastCancerTrials.org: Patient-to-Trial Matching
Resources available from the PubMed database
Cancer Topic Searches: Breast Cancer
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Cancer Topic Searches: Cancer Genetics
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Cancer Literature in PubMed
Includes NCI-supported research, funding opportunities, and special reports
NCI Funded Research Portfolio
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Breast SPOREs
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Breast Cancer - NCI Office of Women's Health
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Early Reproductive Events and Breast Cancer
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Breast Cancer Progress Review Group Report
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Breast Cancer Progress Report
Information related to cancer incidence, mortality, and survival
Cancer Stat Fact Sheet: Cancer of the Breast
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Snapshot of Breast Cancer
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Probability of Breast Cancer in American Women
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Finding Cancer Statistics
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Understanding Cancer Statistics
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