 New breast cancer test under study July 22, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 2 vote(s) ) | User comments: 1
Whether a painless, portable device that uses electrical current rather than X-ray to look for breast cancer could be an alternative to traditional mammograms is under study at the Medical College of Georgia. | |
Teamwork cuts out unnecessary biopsies, researchers find July 22, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 3 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
Unnecessary biopsies could be a thing of the past for patients undergoing treatment for head and neck cancer. New Saint Louis University research found that when nuclear medicine clinicians and treating physicians work together ... | |
Has cancer spread? Research identifies best way to find answers so treatment can begin July 22, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
For patients with head and neck cancer, accurately determining how advanced the cancer is and detecting secondary cancers usually means undergoing numerous tests – until now. New Saint Louis University research has found ... | |
Pond scum could be key to new cancer therapies July 22, 2008 | User rating: 4.1 / 5 after 9 vote(s)
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Researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Pharmacy are collaborating with the Ohio State University and two other organizations to discover new cancer therapies derived from natural sources such as pond ... | |
Plants make vaccine for treating type of cancer July 21, 2008 | User rating: 4.9 / 5 after 7 vote(s)
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Plants could act as safe, speedy factories for growing antibodies for personalized treatments against a common form of cancer, according to new findings from the Stanford University School of Medicine. The findings came in ... | |
Gene panel predicts lung cancer survival, study finds July 21, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 3 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
Researchers from four leading cancer centers have confirmed that an analysis involving a panel of genes can be used to predict which lung cancer patients will have the worst survival. The finding could one day lead to a test ... | |
Cancer researchers call for ethnicity to be taken into account July 18, 2008 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 6 vote(s)
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Breast cancer research needs to investigate how a person's ethnicity influences their response to treatment and its outcome, according to a new Comment piece in today's Lancet (18 July) by researchers from Imperial ... | |
New approach to cancer: Find most tightly controlled genes July 18, 2008 | User rating: 5 / 5 after 5 vote(s)
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Scientists at a Duke University medical school in Singapore have found a new way to study cancer that could be very useful for developing targeted therapies against cancer and possibly many other diseases. | |
First worldwide analysis of cancer survival finds wide variation between countries July 17, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 2 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
Cancer survival varies widely between countries according to a worldwide study published online today in Lancet Oncology.* More than 100 investigators contributed to the study. | |
Researchers discover link between organ transplantation and increased cancer risk July 16, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | User comments: 1
Researchers have determined a novel mechanism through which organ transplantation often leads to cancer, and their findings suggest that targeted therapies may reduce or prevent that risk. | |
Breast self-exams do not appear to reduce breast cancer deaths July 16, 2008 | User rating: not rated yet | No comments yet
It is a staple of women's health advice and visits to the OB/GYN: the monthly breast self-exam to check for lumps or other changes that might signal breast cancer. However, a review of recent studies says there is no evidence ... | |
Vitamin A pushes breast cancer to form blood vessel cells July 16, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 4 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
Researchers at Georgetown University Medical Center have discovered that vitamin A, when applied to breast cancer cells, turns on genes that can push stem cells embedded in a tumor to morph into endothelial cells. These cells ... | |
Improving understanding of cell behavior in breast cancer July 15, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 2 vote(s) ) | User comments: 1
The invasion and spread of cancer cells to other parts of the body, known as metastasis, is a principal cause of death in patients diagnosed with breast cancer. Although patients with early stage, small, breast tumours have ... | |
Possible link found between X-rays and prostate cancer July 15, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 4 vote(s) ) | User comments: 1
Researchers at The University of Nottingham have shown an association between certain past diagnostic radiation procedures and an increased risk of young-onset prostate cancer — a rare form of prostate cancer which affects ... | |
Focused Internet services provide better support to breast cancer patients July 15, 2008 | User rating: not rated yet | No comments yet
A new study in the Journal of Communication reveals that access to an integrated system of internet health resources helps patients more than simply providing a list of URLs to accredited sites. | |
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