Cancer Treatment:
Cancer news, cancer cure and cancer treatment, Leukemia, cancer information and research on cancer treatment advance.
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Jul 11th, 2009
African-American breast, ovarian, and prostate cancer patients tend to die earlier than patients of other races even when they get identical medical treatment and other confounding socioeconomic factors are controlled for.
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Jul 10th, 2009
The death toll from three of the UK’s most common cancers has dropped to its lowest level for almost 40 years.
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Jul 10th, 2009
A new review of data confirms that erythropoietin — a drug to treat anemia in many cancer patients — might be harmful.
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Jul 10th, 2009
Researcher Karsten Juhl Jørgensen feels that breast cancers are over diagnosed. He begin his review of incidence reported data from 7 years before routine screening programs were implemented and 7 years after full screening was implemented. He included screened and non-screened age groups.
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Jul 8th, 2009
Dr. Kathy Albain and colleagues wanted to know why black Americans are less likely to survive some cancers. The researchers found that African Americans did not have a survival gap for all cancers, but do for breast, prostate and ovarian cancers
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Jul 2nd, 2009
A new imaging technique can monitor, in living mice, the HER2 protein found in above-normal amounts in many cases of breast cancer as well as some ovarian, prostate and lung cancers.
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Jul 1st, 2009
Vegetarians are 12 per cent less likely to develop cancer than meat eaters.
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Jun 29th, 2009
Specific variations or mutations in a particular can gene raise a man’s risk of familial, or inherited, testicular germ-cell cancer, the most common form of this disease.
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Jun 29th, 2009
The researchers have developed a method with the potential to increase accuracy in detecting real cancer biomarkers that is highly reproducible across laboratories and a variety of instruments so that cancer can be caught in its earliest stages.
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Jun 26th, 2009
The editor of a leading cancer research journal has called for a global pooling of research knowledge in order to tackle the disease by finding cancer treatment. Cancer is set to become the world’s leading cause of death by the end of next year.
