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Patients surviving childhood Hodgkin's disease suffer strokes later in life at rates about four times that of the general population, researchers from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, have found by using patient information from a national database. "We were surprised," admits Daniel Bowers, assistant professor of pediatrics. "We knew there was increased risk of a second cancer--usually breast cancer--and...