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Has cancer spread? Research identifies best way to find answers so treatment can begin

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created Jul 22, 2008 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

For patients with head and neck cancer, accurately determining how advanced the cancer is and detecting secondary cancers usually means undergoing numerous tests – until now. New Saint Louis University research has found ...





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Study reveals why certain ovarian cancers develop resistance to platinum-based chemotherapy

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created Feb 10, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

A team of researchers led by Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center has identified a new mechanism that explains why some recurrent ovarian tumors become resistant to treatment with commonly used platinum-based chemotherapy ...


Proton therapy lowers chance of later cancers

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created Sep 22, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Patients who are treated with proton therapy (a specialized type of external beam radiation therapy using protons rather than X-rays to treat cancer) decreases the risk of patients developing a secondary cancer by two-fold, ...


Newly discovered gene could be a prime target in the most lethal brain cancer

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created Feb 18, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Scientists at Duke University Medical Center and Johns Hopkins University have discovered mutations in two genes that could become therapeutic targets in malignant glioma, a dangerous class of brain tumors.


Radiation increases risk of second primary tumors for childhood survivors

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created Nov 01, 2006 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Radiation exposure may increase the risk of brain and spinal column tumors in survivors of childhood cancer, according to a study in the November 1 Journal of the National Cancer Institute.


Drinking wine may increase survival among non-Hodgkin's lymphoma patients

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created Apr 21, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

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 ...


Hitting cancer where it hurts

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created May 28, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Two studies in the May 29th issue of Cell, a Cell Press publication, have taken advantage of new technological advances to search for and find previously unknown weaknesses in a hard to treat form of cancer. The discoveries lend n ...


In the modern post-PSA era, prostate cancer surgery may not be necessary for some patients

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created Jul 27, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Investigators at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC), along with collaborating teams at the Cleveland Clinic and the University of Michigan, have completed the first large- scale, multi-institutional study of ...


Obesity causes 100,000 US cancers every year: study

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created Nov 06, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Obesity causes more than 100,000 incidents of cancer in the US every year, the American Institute for Cancer Research said in estimates published Friday.


Primary tumors can drive the growth of distant cancers

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created Jun 12, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Primary tumors can encourage the growth of stray cancer cells lurking elsewhere in the body that otherwise may not have amounted to much, according to a new study in the June 13 issue of the journal Cell. As people age, m ...


Human papillomavirus genotype distribution in New Mexico cervical cancers

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

DNA from human papilloma virus type 16 (HPV16) and HPV type 18 (HPV18) were found in the majority of invasive cervical cancers in New Mexico in the 1980s and 1990s, according to a population-based study published in the March ...



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