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Many Suffer Chronic Pain After Breast Cancer Surgery

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(HealthDay News) About one-quarter of women who've had breast cancer surgery have significant and persistent breast pain six months after the procedure, a new study finds. Women with breast pain before surgery were most likely to have long-term breast pain after the operation, according to the study recently published in the Journal of Pain.

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