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Old 01-24-2014, 04:25 AM   #1
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Moderate radiation doses can kill premalignant cells and prevent second breast cancer

Survivors of breast cancer have a one in six chance of developing breast cancer in the other breast. But a study conducted in mice suggests that survivors can dramatically reduce that risk through treatment with moderate doses of radiation to the unaffected breast at the same time that they receive radiation therapy to their affected breast.

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