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Prevention and Early Detection of Ovarian Cancer

The past decade has seen rapid growth of research into the prevention and early detection of ovarian cancer. Screening studies have been met with mixed resul…

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The Many Benefits Of Robot-Assisted Kidney Cancer Surgery Do Not Include Cost

Robot-assisted surgery to remove kidney cancers has seen a rapid increase in use, and has both replaced and proven safer than laparoscopic procedures for the same purpose, according to a study by the Vattikuti Urology Institute at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit…

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The Many Benefits Of Robot-Assisted Kidney Cancer Surgery Do Not Include Cost

Robot-assisted surgery to remove kidney cancers has seen a rapid increase in use, and has both replaced and proven safer than laparoscopic procedures for the same purpose, according to a study by the Vattikuti Urology Institute at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit…

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Biosensing: Detecting cocaine ‘naturally’

Since the beginning of time, living organisms have developed ingenious mechanisms to monitor their environment. Scientists have adapted some of these natural mechanisms to detect specific molecules such as cocaine more accurately and quickly. Their work may greatly facilitate the rapid screening —- less than five minutes —- of many drugs, infectious diseases, and cancers.

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The Immune System Can Use Melanoma’s Own Proteins To Kill Off Cancer Cells

Though a small group of proteins, the family called Ras controls a large number of cellular functions, including cell growth, differentiation, and survival. And because the protein has a hand in cellular division, mutated Ras, which can be detected in one-third of all tumors, contributes to many human cancers by allowing for the rapid growth of diseased cells. Now Prof…

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The Immune System Can Use Melanoma’s Own Proteins To Kill Off Cancer Cells

Though a small group of proteins, the family called Ras controls a large number of cellular functions, including cell growth, differentiation, and survival. And because the protein has a hand in cellular division, mutated Ras, which can be detected in one-third of all tumors, contributes to many human cancers by allowing for the rapid growth of diseased cells. Now Prof…

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Steroids help reverse rapid bone loss tied to rib fractures

A series of studies found that steroid drugs, known for inducing bone loss with prolonged use, actually help suppress a molecule that’s key to the rapid bone loss process.

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How do cancer cells behave differently from healthy ones? – George Zaidan

Help us caption and translate this video on Amara.org: www.universalsubtitles.org View full lesson: ed.ted.com How do cancer cells grow? How does chemotherapy fight cancer (and cause negative side effects)? The answers lie in cell division. George Zaidan explains how rapid cell division is cancer’s “strength” — and also its weakness. Lesson by George Zaidan, animation by TED-Ed.

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Easy, at-home exercise program can help cancer patients

A brief, at-home exercise program — dubbed the Rapid, Easy, Strength Training program, or REST, — was sufficient to increase cancer patients’ mobility and reduce fatigue.

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Drug shows promise in prostate cancer spread to bone: Tumors were reduced on bone scans, bone pain decreased after patients received cabozantinib

A new drug demonstrated dramatic and rapid effects on prostate cancer that had spread to the bone, according to a new study.

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