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Stopping cancer’s spread: New protein found to control cancer metastasis

By on Saturday, June 15th, 2013 | No Comments

One of the scariest aspects of receiving a cancer diagnosis is learning how far the disease has spread throughout the body.

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Stopping cancer’s spread: New protein found to control cancer metastasis

By on Saturday, June 15th, 2013 | No Comments

One of the scariest aspects of receiving a cancer diagnosis is learning how far the disease has spread throughout the body.

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Gene offers an athlete’s heart without the exercise

By on Friday, June 14th, 2013 | No Comments

Researchers have found that a single gene poses a double threat to disease: Not only does it inhibit the growth and spread of breast tumors, but it also makes hearts healthier.

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Experimental vaccine shows promise against TB meningitis

By on Thursday, June 13th, 2013 | No Comments

Researchers working with animals has developed a vaccine that prevents the virulent TB bacterium from invading the brain and causing the highly lethal condition TB meningitis, a disease that disproportionately occurs in TB-infected children and in adults with compromised immune system.

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Eating healthy vegetable fats may improve prostate cancer survival

By on Wednesday, June 12th, 2013 | No Comments

Men with prostate cancer may significantly improve their survival chances with a simple change in their diet, a new study led by UC San Francisco (home of the UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center) has found. By substituting healthy vegetable fats – such as olive and canola oils, nuts, seeds and avocados – for animal fats and carbohydrates, men with the disease had a markedly lower risk of developing lethal prostate cancer and dying from other causes, according to the study. The study was published online on June 10 in JAMA Internal Medicine.

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Childhood Cancer Survivors Found to Have Significant Undiagnosed Disease as Adults

By on Wednesday, June 12th, 2013 | No Comments

MEMPHIS, Tenn., June 11, 2013 — St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital has found that childhood cancer survivors overwhelmingly experience a significant amount of undiagnosed, serious disease through their adult years, establishing the importance of proactive, life-long clinical health screenings for this growing high-risk population.

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Mesothelioma Community Mourns Loss of Warrior

By on Tuesday, June 11th, 2013 | No Comments

The mesothelioma community lost a friend and advocate yesterday when Debbie “Muvmuv” Brewer lost her battle to pleural mesothelioma. Debbie was diagnosed with mesothelioma in 2006, the same year her father died from an asbestos-related disease. Since that time Debbie has not only been fighting the asbestos-caused cancer, but she has been waging a war …

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Concern over decline in numbers of older women being screened for cervical cancer

By on Monday, June 10th, 2013 | No Comments

SCOTTISH Health Secretary Alex Neil says regular screening can stop eight out of 10 instances of the disease from developing.

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New Plug-In Optical Sensor For Smartphones Could Diagnosis Kaposi’s Sarcoma In The Field

By on Friday, June 7th, 2013 | No Comments

As antiretroviral drugs that treat HIV have become more commonplace, the incidence of Kaposi’s sarcoma, a type of cancer linked to AIDS, has decreased in the United States. The disease, however, remains prevalent in sub-Saharan Africa, where poor access to medical care and lab tests only compound the problem…

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New Plug-In Optical Sensor For Smartphones Could Diagnosis Kaposi’s Sarcoma In The Field

By on Friday, June 7th, 2013 | No Comments

As antiretroviral drugs that treat HIV have become more commonplace, the incidence of Kaposi’s sarcoma, a type of cancer linked to AIDS, has decreased in the United States. The disease, however, remains prevalent in sub-Saharan Africa, where poor access to medical care and lab tests only compound the problem…

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