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HealthDay - SATURDAY, May 31 (HealthDay News) -- Chemotherapy may reduce fertility in breast cancer survivors, according to a study led by researchers at Boston's Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.

HealthDay - SATURDAY, May 31 (HealthDay News) -- People who survived Hodgkin lymphoma as children have an increased risk of developing and dying from another cancer or cardiovascular disease as adults, according to a new report.

AP - Noted neurologist Oliver Sacks has found common ground with the pastor of Harlem's Abyssinian Baptist Church: Both men believe in the healing power of music.

Reuters - Eli Lilly and Co's chemotherapy drug Gemzar more than doubled the overall survival for early stage pancreatic cancer patients five years after surgery to remove their tumors, according to results from a long-term study released on Saturday.

Reuters - Lung cancer patients treated in a large clinical trial with ImClone Systems Inc's Erbitux and chemotherapy lived about five weeks longer than patients treated with chemotherapy alone, according to study results released on Saturday.

Reuters - The narcolepsy drug Provigil can alleviate severe cancer-related fatigue, according to new research presented on Saturday at a meeting of the American Society for Clinical Oncology.

AFP - A treatment against osteoporosis that uses the biophosphate Zometa has shown to reduce the risk of early breast cancer in pre-menopausal women by 35 percent, a study presented here showed.

HealthDay - SATURDAY, May 31 (HealthDay News) -- People who survived Hodgkin lymphoma as children have an increased risk of developing and dying from another cancer or cardiovascular disease as adults, according to a new report.

This could be the result of a doctoral dissertation by Charlotte Eklund-Jonsson at the Department of Food Science.The food, called tempe, is moreover a whole-grain product with high folate content. It is generally accepted in medicine that whole-grains reduce the risk of cardiovascular diseases, and it is also believed that it protects against age-related diabetes and certain forms of cancer.

AP - Adding the novel cancer drug Erbitux to standard chemotherapy helped advanced lung cancer patients live just a month longer than chemo alone, a study found.