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CDC: Tips from Former Smokers – Terrie’s Ad

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Smoking causes cancer. In this TV ad for CDC’s “Tips From Former Smokers” campaign, Terrie talks about how she gets ready for the day after the effects of treatments for throat cancer caused her to lose her teeth and hair, and to have a laryngectomy. Comments on this video are allowed in accordance with our comment policy: www.cdc.gov This video can also be viewed at streaming.cdc.gov

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Corona Cares Supports Patients, Families Sealing with cancer

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Each week we publish editorials and letters to the editor concerning local issues.

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Cancer patient holds bake sale for kids

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With help from friends to make and sell cookies and cakes, Roberts raised about $600 at the community clubhouse of his home, Donner Springs Mobile Home Park.

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Vitrification of sperm

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Increased awareness among oncologists and the emergence of vitrification, a new procedure that gives the frozen sperms, eggs and even embryos of cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy a higher chance of survival, is offering the promise of parenthood to survivors who are usually condemned to infertility because of the radiation When 22 year-old … (more)

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UCI-led study finds a drug combo better for common type of metastatic breast cancer

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Postmenopausal women with the most common type of metastatic breast cancer now have a new treatment option that lengthens their lives, according a study led by UC Irvine and conducted by the Southwest Oncology Group. The findings appear in the Aug. 2 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine. A combination of the two anti-estrogen drugs anastrozole and fulvestrant extended the median survival time of women with Stage 4 hormone receptor-positive metastatic breast cancer by more than six months compared to those who underwent standard treatment with anastrozole alone. UC Irvine is home to the Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center.

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In multi-institute study, heat-shock factor reveals its unique role in supporting highly malignant cancers

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A study led by Whitehead Institute researchers has found that increased expression of a specific set of genes is strongly associated with metastasis and death in patients with breast, colon, and lung cancers. Not only could this finding help scientists identify a gene profile predictive of patient outcomes and response to treatment, it could also guide the development of therapeutics to target multiple cancer types. This study included researchers from Brigham and Women’s Hospital, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Harvard School of Public Health, and the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine.

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Risk For Testicular Cancer Increases With Genetic Copy-Number Variants

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Genetics clearly plays a role in cancer development and progression, but the reason that a certain mutation leads to one cancer and not another is less clear. Furthermore, no links have been found between any cancer and a type of genetic change called “copy-number variants,” or CNVs…

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Ways To Prevent Cancer

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cellfood Prevention is always better than cure, and this is also true when it comes to cancer. Chemotherapy is not the only way to eliminate cancer. There is another way. First we have to realise that everyone has cancer cells in his body. However, they are not seen in regular test until they have become [...]

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Breast cancer research as a summer job

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Surrey’s Ada Kim, a fourth-year undergraduate at UBC has been awarded one of four studentships for breast cancer research.

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At home with Carole Renouf

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The leader of the National Breast Cancer Foundation is used to calmly navigating chaos, whether while leading a successful charity or setting up her new Waverley terrace, writes Rachel Browne.

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