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Article: Chemotherapy may suppress breast cancer risk in Hodgkin disease survivors.
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- Blood Weekly
- Article date:
- July 31, 2003
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2003 JUL 31 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Women treated with radiation therapy for Hodgkin's disease are at a strongly increased risk of breast cancer. Now, a new study suggests that this risk for breast cancer increases with increasing radiation dose. Adding chemotherapy to radiation, however, is associated with a reduction in this risk, possibly by inducing premature menopause.
The findings appear in the July 2, 2003, issue of the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.
Flora E. van Leeuwen, PhD, of the Netherlands Cancer Institute, and her colleagues examined radiation dose, chemotherapy with alkylating agents, and reproductive factors in women ...