Terramed Alliance News Nearly half of all breast cancer patients experienced chronic pain two to three years after treatment and more than half felt discomfort, according to a study by Danish researchers published Tuesday in the Journal of the American Medical Association, the New York Times reports. The study found that women younger than age 40, those who underwent radiation treatment and those who had surgery to remove lymph nodes in the armpit are most likely to experience lingering pain.
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U of L reaches out to rural area in fight with cancer
After surgery, chemotherapy and radiation, 38-year-old Owensboro, Ky., resident Jennifer Slone is cancer free — and she credits her survival to a gynecological oncologist, a women’s cancer specialist who treated her through a University of Louisville program that reaches out to Western Kentucky.
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