Thursday, November 10th, 2011
A study, published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, is one of the first of its kind to assess the benefits and improvements in medicine and technology for treating women with Breast Cancer through the last thirty years. Looking specifically at age subsets in the data, Benjamin Smith, M.D., ...
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Thursday, November 3rd, 2011
When patients diagnosed with advanced cancer need to talk, they find Marcy Zaffron. He is the quality of life navigator at Albuquerque's Presbyterian Healthcare Services' Cancer Center, who works with mostly Stage IV cancer patients.
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Friday, October 28th, 2011
Patients with a family history of cancer who take daily aspirin for a number of years have a 63% lower chance of developing the disease, scientists from the Universities of Newcastle and Leeds, England, reported in the medical journal The Lancet. The researchers emphasized that it takes some years of ...
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Tuesday, October 25th, 2011
A prospective study found that the more coffee an adult drinks, the lower their risk seems to be for developing basal cell carcinoma, a common type of skin cancer. Researchers from Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School presented their findings at the 10th AACR International Conference on Frontiers ...
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Friday, October 21st, 2011
New research from Belgium, published in Nature this week, reveals that VEGF, a signalling protein that is known to regulate the formation of new blood vessels, has a dual role in helping cancer cells grow and form tumors in skin squamous cell carcinoma, a common cancer in ...
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