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Breast Cancer Treated Too Often

Submitted by LiveScience Staff

posted: 09 July 2009 10:14 pm ET

Breast cancer is often made out to sound like a death sentence. In fact, though some forms are indeed deadly, some cancers don't kill, yet they're being treated as life-threatening diseases anyway, scientists now say. The research involved only Australia, Britain, Canada, Norway and Sweden, however, so it's not clear if the findings apply to other countries. Learn more in our 5 Myths about Breast Cancer.

This video, involving separate research, sheds further light on the differences in cancer risk:

Revealing Profiles: Breast Cancer Genes

Combining clinical characteristics with a genomic profile may provide important information for predicting a patient's prognosis.
Credit: Duke University

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