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Latina and African-American breast cancer patients -- especially Latinas who prefer to speak Spanish -- are more likely than white patients to be dissatisfied with the decision-making process of how to proceed with a breast cancer diagnosis, according to a University of Michigan study,

Title: Migraine Might Lower breast cancer RiskCategory: health newscreated: 11/7/2008 2:00:00 amlast Editorial review: 11/7/2008

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Women who have a history of migraine headaches are far less likely to develop breast cancer than other women, U.S. researchers said Thursday. The study was the first to look at the relationship between breast cancer and migraines, and its findings may point to new ways of reducing a woman's breast cancer risk, they said. "We found that, overall, women who had a history of migraines had a 30 percent lower risk of breast cancer compared to women who did not have a history of such headaches," said Dr. Christopher Li, whose findings appear in the journal Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers and Prevention. Li, of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, said the reduction in risk was for the most common types...