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Archive for May 5th, 2012


New guidelines for cervical cancer screening

Under the new guidelines issued by the US Preventative Services Task Force, many women would be tested less often for cervical cancer. Teresa Garcia has the details.

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New data improve understanding of breast cancer’s multiple varieties

New findings shed new light on the many biological differences between individual breast cancers.

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A single stem cell mutation triggers fibroid tumors: Mutated stem cell ‘goes wild’ in frenzied tumor expansion

Fibroid uterine tumors affect an estimated 15 million women in the United States, causing irregular bleeding, anemia, pain and infertility. Despite the high prevalence of the tumors, the molecular cause has been unknown. Scientists for the first time have identified the molecular trigger of the tumor — a single stem cell that develops a mutation, starts to grow uncontrollably and activates other cells to join its frenzied expansion.

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Fort Myers cancer relay honors loved ones and survivors

Relay For Life at Centenial Park: Jill Bellon Gorgas shares her cancer survival story at the Downtown River District Relay For Life.

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Bekki’s new style for Cancer Research UK

AN ARBROATH hairdresser will be letting somebody else do the cutting when she undergoes a drastic makeover for charity on Saturday afternoon.

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Cancer treatment will be on one site

When It Happens Panel Get involved: send your photos, videos, news & views by texting ‘OXFORD NEWS’ to 80360 or email Head and neck cancer services were due to move to the Churchill Hospital’s Oxford Cancer Centre, which opened in 2009, in July last year.

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Older Lung Cancer Patients Less Likely to Be Treated

FRIDAY, May 4 — A study of seniors with non-small cell lung cancer found that older patients are less likely to receive treatment than younger patients, regardless of their overall health and prognosis.

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Columbia University researchers find that Blacks and Hispanics are at higher risk for precancerous colorectal polyps

Blacks and Hispanics have a significantly higher risk of developing precancerous colorectal polyps compared with whites, according to a study by researchers at New York Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center.

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University of Chicago scientists find that beehive extract shows potential as prostate cancer treatment

An over-the-counter natural remedy derived from honeybee hives arrests the growth of prostate cancer cells and tumors in mice, according to a new paper from researchers at the University of Chicago Medicine. Researchers combined traditional cancer research methods with cutting-edge proteomics to find that CAPE arrests early-stage prostate cancer by shutting down the tumor cells’ system for detecting sources of nutrition.

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Cancer-Causing Food Additives A Major Concern For Consumers

As with many concerned consumers, a team of University of Oklahoma researchers wondered if the green color sometimes seen in bacon is, in fact, harmful to human health. Recently, these OU scientists took an important first step in answering this question by determining the structure of the green pigment responsible for this ‘nitrite burn…

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