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The following summarizes findings reported last week at the San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium. ~ Anthracyclines: New research suggests that anthracyclines — a class of chemotherapy drugs commonly used to treat breast cancer — could cause more harm than benefits for breast cancer patients because they can be damaging to the heart, the Wall Street Journal reports…

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