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Radiation May Be Unnecessary for Many Breast Cancer Patients

Doctors have already begun reducing radiation treatment for women at low risk of recurrence or spread of the disease. A new study finds that some women at greater risk can safely avoid radiation.

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Researchers followed 1,600 women for a median of 9.6 years and found that survival rates were similar in two groups of patients: 81.4 percent among the patients who had received radiation treatment and 81.9 percent among those who had not.
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Democrats Raise Concerns After Trump Officials Give Boat Strikes Briefing

The classified meeting did not relieve mounting unease among lawmakers over President Trump’s expanding campaign of lethal strikes against drug cartels.

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A top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee lamented that lawmakers were not given a “strike-by-strike” breakdown.
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