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Drinking wine may increase survival among non-Hodgkin's lymphoma patients
Apr 21, 2009 |
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Pre-diagnostic wine consumption may reduce the risk of death and relapse among non-Hodgkin's lymphoma patients, according to an epidemiology study presented at the American Association for Cancer Research 100th Annual Meeting ...
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Strategies to control TB outdated, inadequate
Aug 01, 2008 |
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The standard regimens to treat tuberculosis (TB) are inadequate in countries with high rates of multi-drug resistant (MDR) TB. In countries with high rates of MDR-TB, patients are nearly twice as likely to fail their initial ...
Newly-defined factors may prevent postpartum smoking relapse
Aug 27, 2008 |
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Although many women quit smoking during pregnancy to protect their unborn children from the effects of cigarettes, half of them resume the habit within a few months of giving birth.
New predictive tool can help determine treatment of breast cancer patients
Sep 23, 2008 |
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A new predictive measurement, called a PEPI score, could bring good news to many women diagnosed with early stage breast cancer — a low PEPI (preoperative endocrine prognostic index) score could show that they have little ...
Repeat negative CT scan for lung cancer does not encourage ex-smokers to resume the habit
Dec 04, 2009 |
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Assurance of a cancer-free status did not prompt people participating in a long-term computerized tomography (CT) lung-cancer screening program to pick up their cigarettes again, researchers wrote in a study published in ...
Even tiny breast tumors can be aggressive and may require maximum therapy
Dec 16, 2007 |
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Breast tumors that are 1 centimeter in size or smaller — no more than 0.4 inch in length — can still be very aggressive and may require more intensive therapy than is routinely offered today, say researchers at Mayo Clinic ...
Switching early breast cancer patients to exemestane improves long-term survival
Sep 21, 2009 |
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New research has found that switching post-menopausal women with early breast cancer to the drug exemestane (Aromasin) after two or three years of tamoxifen rather than keeping them on tamoxifen for five years improves the ...
Ready for relapse: Molecule helps breast cancer cells to survive in the bone marrow
Jul 06, 2009 |
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Patients who survive an initial diagnosis of breast cancer often succumb to the disease years later when the cancer shows up in a different part of the body. Now, scientists have identified key signals that support the long ...
Discovery major step forward in treating leukemia
Jan 18, 2008 |
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Researchers at the University of East Anglia have discovered for the first time a pathway that makes cancerous leukaemia cells resistant to treatment.
Early detection of second breast cancers halves women's risk of death
Mar 17, 2009 |
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A group of international researchers has found the first reliable evidence that early detection of subsequent breast tumours in women who have already had the disease can halve the women's chances of death from breast cancer.
Flies like us: They can act like addicts, too
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When given the chance to consume alcohol at will, fruit flies behave in ways that look an awful lot like human alcoholism. That's according to a study published online on December 10th in Current Biology that is one of the ...
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