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The utility of EUS and CEH-EUS in the diagnosis of small pancreatic tumors

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Dec 08, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Endoscopic ultrasonography (EUS) is a highly sensitive diagnostic method for the detection of small pancreatic carcinomas. Recently, there have been some reports describing the utility of contrast-enhanced harmonic EUS (CEH-EUS) ...


More women under 40 choosing double mastectomy to prevent recurrence of cancer

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created Oct 08, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Women with breast cancer who are under the age of 40 and who have women surgeons are more likely to opt to have their healthy breasts removed to prevent recurrence, a University of Minnesota study has found.


Precancer? Earliest cancer? Milk-duct cells vexing

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created Sep 24, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Some doctors tell patients they have "stage zero" breast cancer. Others call it a precancer.


HPV vaccine could prevent breast cancer: research

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created Sep 03, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Vaccinating women against the human papillomavirus (HPV) may prevent some forms of breast cancer and save tens of thousands of lives each year, new Australian research suggests.


Protein predicts development of invasive breast cancer in women with DCIS

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created May 22, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Women with ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) who exhibit an overexpression of the protein HER2/neu have a six-fold increase in risk of invasive breast cancer, according to a new study from the University of Pennsylvania School ...


Breakthrough model for human cancer may improve development of cancer drugs

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created Apr 06, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

AVEO Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company leveraging breakthrough discoveries in cancer biology to discover, develop and commercialize targeted oncology therapies, today announced findings from its novel human-in-mouse ...