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Study Says Some Women With Common Breast Cancer Can Safely Skip Chemo

When a woman hears the dreaded words, “breast cancer,” often the first thing that comes to mind is the classic treatment — chemotherapy — and its accompanying image of a bald head, one of the side effects of the poison that’s supposed to help you when you’re treated for cancer of any type. That image is about to change, however, if cancer doctors pay attention to new research that shows at least 70 percent of women may be able to forgo chemo, depending...