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A new national clinical study will help evaluate the best manner in which to give patients radiation and chemotherapy to treat locally advanced, non-small cell lung cancer.

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Two new European (UK and Scotland) studies strongly supporting the effectiveness of mammography screening for women under 50 were published this week in The Lancet.

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A skin care cream from France, now available in the United States, can help selected patients, which include large-breasted or non-smoking women, achieve faster healing of treatment-induced skin reactions following radiation therapy for breast cancer, according to a national study.

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Using hormonal and radiation therapy versus radiation therapy alone has had the best results in treating locally advanced, non-metastatic prostate cancer, according to a national study.

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A Radiation Therapy Oncology Group clinical study has shown preliminarily that conservative surgery plus radiation and outpatient chemotherapy may increase the rate of bladder preservation in bladder cancer patients without decreasing the cure rate.

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A Radiation Therapy Oncology Group pilot study has successfully created a method that will someday be able to measure the cost effectiveness of clinical trials.

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Digital mammography has the potential to improve breast cancer detection, provide immediate access to second opinions, and improve service to under-served areas, a national breast cancer expert predicts, Dr. Carl D'Orsi of Worcester, MA, predicted at the 29th National Conference on Breast Cancer.

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Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is a highly useful adjunct to mammography for detecting breast cancer early, Dr. Susan G. Orel of Philadelphia, PA, reported at the 29th National Conference on Breast Cancer.

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Surgeons have begun to offer biopsy of the sentinel lymph node (the first node breast cancer strikes) as an alternative to removing several lymph nodes in women with small spreading breast cancers, they reported at the 29th National Conference on Breast Cancer.

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Radiologists armed with a new family of instruments using radio-frequency (RF) energy will, in the next several years, be able to cut out breast cancers while making only a tiny incision, an expert from Denver predicts at the 29th National Conference on Breast Cancer.