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Breast cancer treatment and post-therapeutic changes are the main focus of this installment of the Women's Imaging Insider. First, we have our Insider Exclusive article: A report from the 2006 American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) meeting on the MR-detected neurological shifts in women who have undergone chemotherapy. To learn more about this intriguing phenomenon, click here.

Next, a paper in the Archives of Surgery states that the order in which chemotherapy, radiotherapy, and surgery are performed for inflammatory breast cancer has no bearing on the survival benefit.

Moving on to radiation treatment, U.K. researchers suggest that a shorter radiotherapy course is feasible for breast cancer treatment. Another study took a closer look at persistent seroma after intraoperative placement of an accelerated partial-breast irradiation (APBI) device.

And in another report from ASCO, we feature a study on the benefits of yoga for women undergoing breast radiotherapy. According to ongoing research at the M. D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, doing downward dog lifted the women's physical function scores as well as their overall sense of well-being. Click here to learn more.

Finally, on a completely unrelated topic, a recent PET study showed that lesbian women's neurological response to pheromones is very unique, differing from the responses of heterosexual women and men.