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Cancer Patients in Group Therapy Don’t Live Longer

May 4, 2007 – 4:46 am

Group therapy makes life better for patients battling cancer, but it doesn’t help them live longer.
That’s the conclusion of a team of researchers at the University of Pennsylvania, who examined the literature on group therapy published after one paper in 1989 reported that women with advanced breast cancer who attended group therapy survived nearly twice […]

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High Rates of Lung Cancer Found for Female Non-smokers

February 11, 2007 – 10:31 pm

New research shows that about 20% of the women who get lung cancer have never smoked. The figure for men is about 8%. These figures are higher than was previously thought.
The figures for smokers, though, remains much higher, with current smokers being 10 to 30 times more likely to get lung cancer than people who […]

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