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Obesity causes 100,000 US cancers every year: study

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Obesity causes more than 100,000 incidents of cancer in the US every year, the American Institute for Cancer Research said in estimates published Friday.

PET imaging response a prognostic factor after thoracic radiation therapy for lung cancer

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A rapid decline in metabolic activity on a PET scan after radiation therapy for non-small cell lung cancer is correlated with good local tumor control, according to a study presented by researchers at Thomas Jefferson University ...

New finding suggests prostate biopsy is not always necessary

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Researchers at Wake Forest University School of Medicine and the University of Wisconsin-Madison have discovered that some elevated prostate-specific antigen (PSA) levels in men may be caused by a hormone normally occurring ...

Survival of the healthiest: Selective eradication of malignant cells

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Nov 05, 2009 | 5 / 5 (1) | 0

The ultimate goal in cancer research, a treatment that kills cancer cells whilst leaving healthy cells untouched, is brought nearer by the success of a new therapeutic approach. The potential therapy, published in BioMed ...

Green tea shows promise as chemoprevention agent for oral cancer, study finds

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Nov 05, 2009 | 5 / 5 (1) | 0

Green tea extract has shown promise as cancer prevention agent for oral cancer in patients with a pre-malignant condition known as oral leukoplakia, according to researchers at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer ...

Newly revised guidelines for managing thyroid cancer published in Thyroid journal

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Nov 05, 2009 | not rated yet | 0

The American Thyroid Association has released new, revised Management Guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of patients with thyroid nodules and thyroid cancer. The new guidelines are published in Thyroid, a peer-reviewed journa ...

Plastic surgeons offer microsurgery technique for breast reconstruction, tummy tuck after mastectomy

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Since her teens, Jennifer Jablon had watched family members deal with breast cancer during their 40s, 50s, and 60s. She wondered whether it would be her fate too.

Does prostate-specific antigen velocity help in early detection prostate cancer?

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Nov 05, 2009 | not rated yet | 0

The November issue of European Urology, the official journal of the European Association of Urology, features an article focussing on prostate specific antigen (PSA) velocity and early cancer detection. It has been sugges ...

Chemo-radiation before prostate removal may prevent cancer recurrence

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Nov 04, 2009 | 5 / 5 (1) | 0

Researchers in the Oregon Health & Science University Knight Cancer Institute and the Portland Veterans Affairs Medical Center have found a combination of radiation therapy and chemotherapy given before prostate removal is ...

Cancer patients want honesty, compassion from their oncologist

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Nov 04, 2009 | not rated yet | 0

What do patients want from their radiation oncologists? The most significant preference is that more than one-third of female cancer patients (37 percent) prefer to have their hands held by their radiation oncologists during ...

Radiation therapy after lumpectomy for breast cancer can be safely reduced to 4 weeks

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Researchers at Fox Chase Cancer Center found that radiation treatment for women who had a lumpectomy for early-stage breast cancer can be safely reduced to four weeks, instead of the usual six to seven weeks, by delivering ...

Does race, income predict prostate cancer outcome?

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Nov 04, 2009 | not rated yet | 0

A patient's socioeconomic status (income, martial status and race) has absolutely no impact on his outcome following curative radiation therapy for the treatment of prostate cancer, according to a new study from Henry Ford ...

Taking aim at mysterious DNA structures in the battle against cancer

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Nov 04, 2009 | not rated yet | 0

Designers of anti-cancer drugs are aiming their arrows at mysterious chunks of the genetic material DNA that may play a key role in preventing the growth and spread of cancer cells, according to an article in the current ...

New treatment option emerging for some with early stage lung cancer

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Nov 04, 2009 | not rated yet | 0

Patients with early stage, non-small cell lung cancer who are not able to undergo surgery, now have a highly effective treatment option. Physicians say that option, radical stereotactic radiosurgery performed with CyberKnife, ...

Less brain swelling occurs with multiple sessions of SRS for common brain tumor

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Treating a common brain tumor with multiple sessions of radiation appears to result in less brain swelling than treating the tumor once with a high dose of radiation, say researchers from the Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer ...

McGill researchers identify key genetic factors which can lead to cancer

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Nov 03, 2009 | 4.8 / 5 (4) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at McGill University have discovered a previously unknown series of interactions between genes that control whether cells become cancerous. The discovery may lead to a new generation of targeted ...

Experimental agent reduces breast cancer metastasis to bone

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Nov 03, 2009 | 5 / 5 (1) | 0

Researchers have reduced breast cancer metastasis to bone using an experimental agent to inhibit ROCK, a protein that was found to be over-expressed in metastatic breast cancer. In a study in mice, the team of researchers ...

Two genes cooperate to cause aggressive leukemia

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Nov 03, 2009 | not rated yet | 0

Two genes, each one of which is known to cause cancer on its own, together can lead to aggressive leukaemia. This is the conclusion from new research carried out on gene-modified mice at the Sahlgrenska Academy at the University ...