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Facebook App ‘Circle of Support’ Creates Community For Breast Cancer Patients [Video]
Circle of Support isn’t your typical Facebook app, it doesn’t try to sell anything and it actually serves a worthwhile purpose. The app was built with the specific purpose in mind, offering a support community for women living with metastatic breast cancer (MBC). Using the Facebook community MBC sufferers can share their struggles, find support [...]
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Mammograms: Detecting More Than Breast Cancer, May Help Assess Heart Risk in Kidney Disease Patients
Routine mammograms performed for breast cancer screening could serve another purpose as well: detecting calcifications in the blood vessels of patients with advanced kidney disease, according to a study appearing in an upcoming issu... Read Post
Preventive Mastectomy Does Not Improve Five-Year Survival In Most Breast Cancer Patients, Study Finds
A preventive mastectomy of a healthy breast does not increase survival rates in most women with cancer in the other breast, although the procedure might prolong survival in a specific subset of patients, according to a new study fro... Read Post
New Findings From Global Survey Of Women Living With Metastatic Breast Cancer Highlight Strategies To Improve Patient Enrollment In Clinical Trials
Newly released findings from the BRIDGE survey (Bridging Gaps, Expanding Outreach - Metastatic Breast Cancer Patient Survey) found that most (78 percent) women living with metastatic breast cancer (MBC) have never participated in a ... Read Post