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--THE DEFINITION The cancer has spread beyond the breast, leading to secondary tumors in the liver, lungs, brain or elsewhere
Once the cancer puts down roots in the lymph nodes, the prognosis gets worse. The lymph nodes act as a kind of sewer system for many types of toxins and wastes. Tumors growing in the lymph nodes have a greater chance of breaking off and traveling to the bones, brain...
Don't have five days to spare? Doctors in the U.S. and Europe think they may be able to deliver all the radiation that's needed while a woman is still on the operating table. In an experiment conducted on 15 women in England, physicians inserted a tiny coil into...
And radiation is not without side effects: it's exhausting and it can make the skin less pliant, rendering breast implants a near impossibility. Sometimes radiation causes the skin to take on a sunburn-like sheen. In rare instances, it can damage the lungs or heart. Physicians hope that carefully...
Scientists used cloning methods to locate and remove the GGTA1 gene from the pigs. GGTA1 is one of two genes that trigger the human immune response and resulting organ rejection. If a strain of pig is developed that lacks these genes, scientists believe that they could harvest their vital organs...