Dr. Juanita Crook sees the effects of cancer every day. Now she’s forging ahead on brachytherapy breast cancer treatment, a path with massive promise.

Brachytherapy breast cancer treatment could change everything

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Parents who keep track of their kids by giving them a cell phone may want to make some changes in the ways they keep connected. It might not mean ditching the devices completely, but lingering concerns about radiation absorption from cell phones could alter how kids use the technology.

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Listen, no one likes to go to the dentist. But while an appointment might feel like it takes forever, it turns out that visiting the dentist can actually take years off your life.

"The researchers found that those diagnosed with meningiomas were more than twice as likely as the comparison group to report ever having had bitewing images taken," writes Seaman. "And regardless of the age when the bitewings were taken, those who had them yearly or more frequently were at between 40 percent and 90 percent higher risk at all ages to be diagnosed with a brain tumor."

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Radiation can give life and take it away. Sunlight, therapy to kill malignant tumors, powerful x-rays, and radio waves are all forms of radiation. Lately, much has been made of the health risks related to another source of invisible waves: WiFi.

There’s a great scene in the TV show Weeds. One of the main characters has breast cancer and freely uses her condition as an excuse for not keeping up with the other ladies in her yoga class.

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