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| Breast cancer - Treatment & detection |  |
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Prostate cancer - Treatment & detection |  |
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Breast cancer detection and treatment: What's best for you? Best bets for early breast cancer detection Q&A: Deodorants and breast cancer |
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Prostate cancer: Do you need to know whether you have it? Selenium, fish may protect against prostate cancer Q&A: Calcium and prostate cancer |
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| Does cancer screening save lives? |  |
Death rates for breast cancer and prostate cancer dropped after the widespread introduction of mammography and prostate-specific-antigen testing, as these graphs show. Many, but not all, experts attribute those declines in part to the timely treatment made possible by early detection. The declines did not immediately follow the increase in screening for either disease, apparently because it often takes several years for the cancers to turn deadly.
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