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...Researchers who are trying to minimize the need for chemotherapy are finding that patients can avoid chemo altogether if just one or two cancer cells are discovered in a lymph node--apparently these cells are not active enough to cause any further trouble...
...found via self-exam is tremendous. If you're depending only on self-exams or clinical exams, you're relying on palpation (feeling a lump with your fingers) to find tumors. And the problem with that is by the time a tumor palpable it's often spread to lymph nodes, and therefore more likely to be fatal...
...treat breast cancer that has spread to the lymph nodes, doctors generally recommend surgery followed by chemotherapy and radiation. But if that therapy includes Taxol, a commonly used anticancer drug, the radiation could be especially damaging to the lungs. In a study of more than 1,300 breast-cancer patients, those who took Taxol had a 14.6% chance of developing pneumonitis, an inflammation of the lungs, compared with 1.1% among those not using the drug...
...learning more about inhalational anthrax as we see more cases. Using an X-ray or a CAT scan, a doctor will be able to see inflamed lymph nodes in the patient?s chest, and that?s a telltale sign of anthrax...
...body, anthrax bacteria emerge from their dormant spore phase and begin to reproduce and spew out toxins, which poison tissues and cause organs to fail. Inhaling spores is most likely to result in death because the germs burrow into lung tissue, where they come in close contact with lymph vessels. These serve as the body's liquid highway, transporting nutrients, debris--and bacterial toxins--throughout the body...