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Reasonable alternative to invasive biopsy of palpable breast lesions with benign imaging features identified

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Nov 20, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Short-term follow-up is a reasonable alternative to invasive biopsy of palpable (capable of being touched or felt) breast lesions with benign imaging features, particularly in younger women with probable fibroadenoma (non-cancerous ...


Elastography reduces unnecessary breast biopsies

Medicine & Health / Cancer

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Elastography is an effective, convenient technique that, when added to breast ultrasound, helps distinguish cancerous breast lesions from benign results, according to an ongoing study presented today at the annual meeting ...


Experimental agent reduces breast cancer metastasis to bone

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Nov 03, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 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 ...


Adapting space-industry technology to treat breast cancer

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Nov 02, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers at Rush University Medical Center and Argonne National Laboratory are collaborating on a study to determine if an imaging technique used by NASA to inspect the space shuttle can be used to predict tissue damage ...


Researcher: 'Optical biopsy' for breast cancer increasingly accurate

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Nov 05, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Most biopsies following mammograms reveal benign abnormalities, not cancer. But women may not have to endure the medical costs, stress and potential complications that accompany such invasive biopsies forever. ...


Unindicated CT series result in unnecessary radiation exposure for patients

Medicine & Health / Cancer

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A large proportion of patients who undergo abdominal/pelvic computed tomography (CT) receive unindicated and unnecessary additional image acquisition resulting in excess, avoidable radiation exposure, according to a study ...


Researchers create 'fly paper' to capture circulating cancer cells

Researchers create 'fly paper' to capture circulating cancer cells

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Nov 18, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (5) | comments 1

Just as fly paper captures insects, an innovative new device with nano-sized features developed by researchers at UCLA is able to grab cancer cells in the blood that have broken off from a tumor.


New figures on cancer in Europe show a steady decline in mortality but big variations

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created 18 hours ago | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

New figures on deaths from cancer in Europe show a steady decline in mortality between the periods 1990-1994 and 2000-2004. Deaths from all cancers in the European Union (EU) between these two periods fell by nine percent ...


Study: Believers' inferences about God's beliefs are uniquely egocentric

Study: Believers' inferences about God's beliefs are uniquely egocentric

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created 8 hours ago | popularity 4.1 / 5 (17) | comments 13

Religious people tend to use their own beliefs as a guide in thinking about what God believes, but are less constrained when reasoning about other people's beliefs, according to new study published in the ...


WHO: Treat HIV patients sooner (AP)

WHO: Treat HIV patients sooner

Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS

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(AP) -- People infected with the virus that causes AIDS should start treatment earlier than currently recommended, the World Health Organization said Monday.



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