31.   The Touch Research Institute is now studying whether massage boosts the immune system for breast cancer patients, Hernandez Reif said.

32.   The university has begun a research study with breast cancer patients to look at the benefits of acupuncture in treating the side effects of chemotherapy.

33.   The studies represent an effort to make sense of a procedure that came into widespread practice without proof that it would actually help breast cancer patients.

34.   Those are the same sorts of gains oncologists at Mass. General are hoping for with another radiation technology being tried on breast cancer patients.

35.   Although elevated stress is almost certainly present in all cancer patients, Andersen said the OSU study dealt only with breast cancer patients.

36.   And exercise can reduce estrogen levels, which could help breast cancer patients because estrogen is considered to promote tumor growth, he said.

37.   Breast cancer patients who take tamoxifen lower the overall risk of a tumor recurring.

38.   Breast cancer patients whose tumors have spread to the lymph nodes won a new drug today that promises to improve their chances of survival over one common chemotherapy.

39.   Breast cancer patients who are obese also have worse odds, and exercise can help people to lose weight.

40.   Doctors use a combination of measures to categorize breast cancer patients according to who is most likely to suffer a recurrence.