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

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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) ...


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.


Study identifies potential 'safe period' for hormone replacement use

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

A new study makes important new findings on the role of hormone use on the risk of breast cancer, confirming that the use of estrogen plus progesterone increases the risk of both ductal and lobular breast cancer far more ...





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Combined HRT increases risk of lobular breast cancer fourfold after just 3 years of use

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created Jan 15, 2008 | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Postmenopausal women who take combined estrogen/progestin hormone-replacement therapy for three years or more face a fourfold increased risk of developing various forms of lobular breast cancer, according to new findings ...


Scientists identify 'gatekeepers' of breast cancer transition to invasive disease

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created May 05, 2008 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Scientists have made a significant discovery that clarifies a previously poorly understood key event in the progression of breast cancer. The research, published by Cell Press in the May issue of the journal Cancer Cell, highli ...


Smoking increases potential for metastatic pancreatic cancer

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created Jul 27, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Smoking has once again been implicated in the development of advanced cancer. Exposure to nicotine by way of cigarette smoking may increase the likelihood that pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma will become metastatic, according ...


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.


Scientists uncover new key to the puzzle of hormone therapy and breast cancer

Scientists uncover new key to the puzzle of hormone therapy and breast cancer

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created Nov 09, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

The use of postmenopausal hormone therapy has decreased over time in the United States, which researchers suggest may play a key role in the declining rate of atypical ductal hyperplasia, a known risk factor ...


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 ...


'New' estrogen receptor found to be key player in tamoxifen resistance

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created Oct 30, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Researchers at Georgetown University Medical Center have discovered a novel way in which breast cancer cells become resistant to tamoxifen, the world's largest-selling breast cancer prevention and treatment drug. They say ...


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.


'Second hit' pushes noninvasive breast cancer towards deadly metastasis

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created Sep 08, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A new study identifies a molecule that acts cooperatively with a well known oncoprotein to drive progression of noninvasive breast cancer to metastatic, life-threatening disease. The research findings, published by Cell Press ...


Knockdown of E2F1 reduces invasive potential of melanoma cells

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created Dec 23, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Inhibition of transcription factor E2F1 reduced epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) expression and reduced the invasive potential but not proliferation of metastatic melanoma cells, according to a brief communication ...



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