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Aug 12th, 2009
Rates of oral cancers, such as cancers of the mouth, tongue and lip, have increased by around a quarter in the past decade among people in their 40s.
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Aug 10th, 2009
The study evaluated a multiinstitutional database of 405 patients who underwent robotic surgery for endometrial cancer between April 2003 and January 2009.
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Aug 8th, 2009
Certain genes are turned off early, before clinical signs of the disease appear, in the development of chronic leukemia.
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Aug 8th, 2009
NEW Cancer Research UK figures out reveal that stomach cancer cases in Great Britain have dropped by nearly half from around 14,000 in 1975 to 7,485 in 2006.
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Aug 8th, 2009
US scientists have decoded the complete DNA sequence - or 'genome' - of a second patient with acute myeloid leukaemia (AML), following on from the first such achievement last year.
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Aug 7th, 2009
Moving to the United States increases cancer risk for Hispanics. Researchers at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine found the cancer risk increases 40 percent or more for Hispanics in the United States.
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Aug 6th, 2009
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has announced that certain drugs prescribed to treat rheumatoid arthritis, Crohn’s disease, and other inflammatory conditions may increase the risk of cancer in children. The drugs belong to a class called tumor necrosis factor (TNF) blockers, which have the ability to hinder the activity of a protein that causes inflammation.
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Aug 5th, 2009
Researchers have developed an animal model that provides strong evidence why imatinib, marketed as Gleevec, helps patients with chronic myeloid leukemia survive longer, but does not keep the disease from returning if treatment ends.
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Aug 5th, 2009
CANCER RESEARCH UK scientists have identified a brand new approach to cancer treatment which radically increases the effectiveness of radiotherapy.
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Aug 3rd, 2009
Common variants of the gene that determines human blood type are associated with an increased risk of pancreatic cancer.
