News tagged with cancer malignancy
Certain cancers more common among HIV patients than non-HIV patients
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Sep 25, 2009 |
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Researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have found that non-AIDS-defining malignancies such as anal and lung cancer have become more prevalent among HIV-infected patients than non-HIV patients since ...
Finnish study identifies factors that increase death in stroke patients ages 15 to 49
Jul 09, 2009 |
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Heavy drinking, being 45 to 49 years old, type 1 diabetes or having a preceding infection are associated with more than twice the risk of death in stroke patients 15 to 49 years old, according to a Finnish study.
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Absence of CLP protein can be indicative of oral cancer
Jan 07, 2009 |
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Human calmodulin-like protein (CLP) is found in many cell types including breast, thyroid, prostate, kidney, and skin. The protein can regulate many cell activities and has a highly specific expression. Gaining an understanding ...
New York doctors testing heated chemo for rare cancer
Mar 05, 2009 |
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Long Island cancer doctors have borrowed a page from medicine's past to write a new chapter on how to address a rare malignancy by infusing heated chemotherapy directly into the abdomen using a heart-lung machine.
Green tea and mushrooms cut breast cancer risk: study
Mar 18, 2009 |
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Chinese women who ate mushrooms and drank green tea significantly cut their risk of breast cancer and the severity of the cancer in those who did develop it, an Australian researcher said Wednesday.
Study finds patients with complex fibroadenomas can avoid surgery
Feb 11, 2008 |
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Complex fibroadenomas have a low incidence of malignancy, so women with this condition can be more conservatively treated and avoid surgical biopsy, according to a new study by a team of researchers from the Hadassah-Hebrew ...
How to differentiate benign from malignant bile duct strictures?
Sep 09, 2008 |
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The differentiation of benign and malignant strictures is difficult. Recently, a group of clinical specialists in Netherlands attempted to find possible criteria for differentiation of malignant from benign bile duct strictures. ...
New research findings may enable earlier diagnosis of uterine cancer
Jan 28, 2009 |
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Cancer of the uterus (womb) is the commonest gynaecological malignancy in the West. Research carried out at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, has now identified a gene that may simplify future diagnosis.
Researchers discover new enzyme in cancer growth
Dec 03, 2008 |
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While studying the mechanics of blood clots, researchers at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center discovered a new enzyme that not only affects the blood, but seems to play a primary role in how cancer tumors ...
New statistical model could help reduce breast-lesion biopsies
Nov 30, 2008 |
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A new method of characterizing breast lesions found during an MRI exam could result in fewer biopsies of benign tumors with the benefits of reduced pain and expense for patients and providers, according to a paper that will ...
Targeted agent shows promise in biliary cancer study
Apr 20, 2009 |
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An experimental agent has shown promising results in people with advanced biliary cancer, according to a multi-institutional clinical trial led by cancer researchers at the Ohio State University.
Cancer cells more likely to genetically mutate
Feb 19, 2007 |
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When cells become cancerous, they also become 100 times more likely to genetically mutate than regular cells, researchers have found. The findings may explain why cells in a tumor have so many genetic mutations, but could ...
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