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Galaxy-exploring camera to be used in the operating room

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Neurosurgeons are adapting an ultraviolet camera to possibly bring planet-exploring technology into the operating room. If the system works when focused on brain tissue, it could give surgeons a real-time view of changes invisible to the naked eye and unapparent even with magnification of current medical imaging technologies.

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Zoya directs adfilm to create awareness about cancer

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New Delhi, July 11: After making successful film “Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara”, Zoya Akhtar has once again donned the director’s hat, but this time for a cause.

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Bevacizumab Slows Progression Of Metastatic Breast Cancer But Has No Impact On Survival

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The cancer drug bevacizumab offers only a modest benefit in delaying disease progression in patients with advanced stage breast cancer, according to a systematic review by Cochrane researchers.

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Transforming cancer treatment

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A Harvard researcher studying the evolution of drug resistance in cancer says that, in a few decades, ‘many, many cancers could be manageable.’ ‘Many people are dying needlessly of cancer, and this research may offer a new strategy in that battle,’ said Martin Nowak, a professor of mathematics and of biology and director of the Program for … (more)

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Preclinical studies at UNC use specialized ultrasound to detect presence of cancer

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In the body, tracing the twists and turns of blood vessels is difficult, but important. Vessel “bendiness” can indicate the presence and progression of cancer. This principle led UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center scientists to a new method of using a high-resolution ultrasound to identify early tumors in preclinical studies. The method, based on vessel bendiness or “tortuosity,” potentially offers an inexpensive, non-invasive and fast method to detect cancer that could someday help doctors identify cancers when tumors are less than a centimeter in size. Their findings were published in the July 6, 2012 online issue of the journal Radiology.

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Cancer screening rates comparable for those with and without rheumatoid arthritis

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New research from Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, Mass., shows that rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients do not receive fewer cancer screening tests than the general population. Results of the study, published in Arthritis & Rheumatism, a journal of the American College of Rheumatology, found that RA and non-RA patients receive routine screening for breast, cervical, and colon cancer at similar rates. Previous research had reported that cancer is one of the main causes of death for RA patients and patients with chronic disease, and that those patients may not receive preventive medical services including regular screenings for cancer. Brigham and Women’s Hospital is part of the Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center.

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Yissum Introduces A Novel Method For Treating Cancer Based On A Protein Encoded By HIV-1

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The novel method uses a peptide derived from HIV to increase the sensitivity of cancer cells to radiotherapy and chemotherapy – Finding published in Blood, journal of the American society of hematology…

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Hepatitis C Virus More Frequent Among African-Americans And Males

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Epidemiologists have determined that levels of hepatitis C virus (HCV) found among injection drug users (IDUs) were higher in individuals who are male or African American even after differences in other factors were considered…

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Measuring Liver Stiffness Can Predict Liver Failure, Cancer And Mortality In Cirrhotic Patients

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Researchers from Spain established that liver stiffness, measured by transient elastography (TE), is an independent predictor of liver failure, hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), and mortality in cirrhotic patients coinfected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) or acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS), and hepatitis C virus (HCV)…

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Mobile skin cancer screening app developed

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A new free app allows users to create a photographic baseline of their skin and photograph suspicious moles or other skin lesions, walking users step-by-step through a skin self-exam.

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