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After cancer diagnosis, what comes next?

One minute, Dr. Bernadine Healy was a perfectly healthy woman, in bed with her husband watching the Oscar De La Hoya fight on HBO. A few hours later, she was diagnosed with a malignant brain tumor.

Time.com: Exercise May Prevent Future Breast Cancer

Get your daughters off the couch: New research shows exercise during the teen years -- starting as young as age 12 -- can help protect girls from breast cancer when they're grown

Time.com: Therapy Linked to Benign Lumps

Researchers reported a new finding in a study of women using estrogen in hormone therapy: users doubled their chances of getting non-cancerous breast lumps

Time.com: Did Big Tobacco Taint a Cancer Study?

A large lung cancer trial funded by a cigarette maker raises thorny questions about the integrity of medical research

Keeping your breasts healthy at every age

Let's face it: There's no body part women obsess about more than breasts -- their size, shape, sag factor, and whether those strange pains stem from monthly PMS hormones or something more ominous, like breast cancer.

How to have a successful mammogram

A paper cape sits loosely around your shoulders, covering your naked chest. A radiology technologist directs you toward an imposing-looking machine. As you hold your breath, one bare breast at a time is tightly compressed between two flat panels and X-rayed.

Time.com: Can a High-Fat Diet Beat Cancer?

German researchers are testing a controversial theory, using a low-carb, high-fat diet to help the sickest of cancer patients

Four new anti-smoking strategies

Researchers are constantly searching for ways to help people quit. What's new? Here are four strategies worth a try:

European study backs less frequent prostate testing

A large study from Europe suggests it doesn't hurt to wait a few years between prostate cancer screenings -- but the research won't end debate over the value of PSA tests.

Breast cancer drop linked to reduced hormone therapy

Invasive breast cancer rates have fallen since the substantial decline in postmenopausal hormone replacement therapy occurred, even after a decline in breast cancer screening rates, according to findings published in the 5th Journal of the National Cancer Institute.

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