RightHealth Daily Dose » lumpectomy http://dailydose.righthealth.com We feature the one health item you simply cannot afford to miss. Mon, 22 Mar 2010 05:56:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Younger Breast Cancer Survivors Have Increased Risk of Disease In Other Breast http://dailydose.righthealth.com/cancer-oncology/younger-breast-cancer-survivors-have-increased-risk-of-disease-in-other-breast/ http://dailydose.righthealth.com/cancer-oncology/younger-breast-cancer-survivors-have-increased-risk-of-disease-in-other-breast/#comments Wed, 15 Oct 2008 13:39:13 +0000 Steven http://dailydose.kosmix.com/?p=624 A new Dutch study suggests that younger women who have survived breast cancer may have 3 to 4 times  the risk of developing a new cancer in the other breast as a consequence of radiation therapy.  Women treated with radiation before they turned 45 had a slightly increased risk of a new tumor in the other breast, while women receiving radiation before they were 35 had a 78% increased risk. It is as yet unclear why this is the case. Radiation therapy is usually used after a lumpectomy to destroy any remaining cancer cells that were not removed by surgery. Today’s radiotherapy techniques aim to reduce the amount of radiation delivered to the remaining breast.

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