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High-risk breast cancer patients who adhere to a healthy lifestyle as outlined by national guidelines have a 37 percent reduced risk of disease recurrence and a 58 percent lower death risk, according to new findings led by researchers at Buffalo,…

Duluth, Minn.-based St. Luke's is beginning construction on a $58 million cardiac expansion.

Boston-based Mass General Cancer Center used fluorescent agent technology during breast cancer surgery to remove residual tumor cells and possibly prevent the need for secondary surgery.

An American Cancer Society report found 45 percent of U.S. cancer deaths expected this year could be attributed to avoidable risk factors.

A new study from researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis found abdominal pain, rectal bleeding, diarrhea and iron deficiency anemia may be the earliest signs of colorectal cancer among people under 50. 

Physicians at Boston Children's Hospital and Boston-based Brigham and Women's Hospital performed the first successful in-utero surgery to repair an aggressive vascular malformation in the fetus's brain before birth.

A recent study found women 55 and younger have nearly double the risk of rehospitalization in the year after a heart attack compared to men the same age.

St. Louis-based Washington University School of Medicine and Boston-based Brigham and Women's Hospital researchers found that a slow rate of breast density decline is associated with an increased risk of developing breast cancer.

MedStar Montgomery Medical Center in Olney, Md., will begin construction on its cancer pavilion expansion in the fall, Washington Business Journal reported May 2.

Patients who have asthma are 1.36 times more likely to develop cancer in their lifetime than others, new research out of the University of Florida in Gainesville found.