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  Breast Cancer Risk

  Every year about 250-thousand women in the United States are diagnosed with breast cancer. Most of these women were not known to be at high risk. That's why researchers at Mayo Clinic are looking for better ways to identify who's at increased risk in order to enhance early detection and, perhaps some day, help these women prevent the disease. They're finding clues in breast tissue.

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  Resource: Breast Cancer

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  Mammography Study

  Doctors at Mayo Clinic did a study to find out if giving women information before they have a mammogram makes a difference in their experience.

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  Resource: Mammography Screening

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  Screening for Lung Cancer

  Research has shown that for some cancers, screening for early detection most definitely saves lives. Examples are mammograms for breast cancer and colonoscopy for colon cancer. But not all cancers have screening tools that have been proven to work. Let's go to Mayo Clinic to learn more about screening for lung cancer.

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  Resource: Treatment of Lung Cancer

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  Surviving Kidney Cancer

  If you have kidney cancer, you might not get symptoms until it's rather advanced. Not long ago a diagnosis like that was bad news. But now, thanks to technology, teamwork and medical expertise, people are beating this deadly disease.

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  Resource: Treatment of Kidney Cancer