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It used to be that one in eight women would develop breast cancer by the time she reached her 80''s.

Some teenage St. Louis authors have a first-of-its-kind book available through the Siteman Cancer Center, and it’s not what you might expect.

It was news that shook the medical world in May, 2005. Researchers in California showed certain women with breast cancer who ate a low-fat diet reduced their risk of the cancer coming back.

A family history of cancer is an important cancer risk factor and may be associated with an increased chance to develop one or more types of cancer. People with a higher risk for cancer may benefit from earlier cancer screening or treatment. Those with a strong family history of cancer may have a specific hereditary cancer syndrome.

Despite warnings about the dangers of skin cancer, many Americans will ignore the risk this summer and hope to get what they believe is a healthy bronze glow. This while one in five Americans is affected by skin cancer and the number of young people with skin cancer is increasing.

It used to be known as fibrocystic breast disease. But the name has changed because so many women have it. It''s now called "fibrocystic change," and symptoms include breast lumps and bumps along with tenderness.

Breast self-exam has been the subject of some controversy during the past three years. Two medical research studies, one in Canada and another in China, found that breast self-exam failed to reduce deaths from breast cancer. The Canadian study even showed that breast self-exam created anxiety and led to unnecessary biopsies.

Nothing was going to stop Dana Deaton from marrying her college sweetheart. Not distance, not cancer and not time. Thirty-five years after ending the relationship she calls the "love of her life" Dana Deaton found him again, and she wasn''t letting go.

As part of the Bristol-Myers Squibb Tour of Hope, cancer survivor and Tour de France champion Lance Armstrong will make an exclusive appearance in St. Louis at the Alvin J. Siteman Cancer Center at Barnes-Jewish Hospital and Washington University School of Medicine Oct. 15 to promote cancer research.

Timothy J. Eberlein, MD, FACS, director of the Alvin J. Siteman Cancer Center at Barnes-Jewish Hospital and Washington University School of Medicine, has been named editor-in-chief of the Journal of the American College of Surgeons (JACS).