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Race, Income Linked To Breast Cancer Treatment Delays

By on Friday, April 26th, 2013 | No Comments

Women who delay treatment for breast cancer are less likely to survive, and this is especially observed in African-Americans, Hispanics, and those of low-income…

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Revealing How Melanoma Evades Chemotherapy

By on Monday, April 8th, 2013 | No Comments

Nitric oxide , a gas with many biological functions in healthy cells, can also help some cancer cells survive chemotherapy.

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Local hospital offers first of its kind lung cancer screening program

By on Thursday, March 21st, 2013 | No Comments

Local hospital offers first of its kind lung cancer screening program. Uploaded by wcvbtv on Mar 18 2013. Lung cancer is currently the number one cancer killer Just 15 percent of patients survive past 5 years a number that hasnt budged in more than 40 years. wcvb tv.

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Flipping the ‘off’ switch on cell growth: Protein uses multiple means to help cells cope when oxygen runs low

By on Sunday, February 24th, 2013 | No Comments

A protein known for turning on genes to help cells survive low-oxygen conditions also slows down the copying of new DNA strands, thus shutting down the growth of new cells, researchers report. Their discovery has wide-ranging implications, they say, given the importance of this copying — known as DNA replication — and new cell growth to many of the body’s functions and in such diseases as cancer.

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Generic Version Of Cancer Drug Doxil Approved By FDA

By on Wednesday, February 6th, 2013 | No Comments

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has just approved a generic version of the cancer drug Doxil (doxorubicin hydrochloride liposome injection). There is currently a serious shortage of the drug Doxil, and the decision by the FDA to allow a generic version on the market will help the thousands of people in need of the drug to survive…

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Early breast cancer diagnosis, survival rates low in rural India

By on Wednesday, February 6th, 2013 | No Comments

Women in developed countries survive roughly 10 years longer after a breast cancer diagnosis compared to women in poor-to-middle-income countries, a new study suggests.

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Do The Health Benefits Of Berries Make It Past Your Mouth?

By on Wednesday, January 30th, 2013 | No Comments

Research has suggested that compounds that give colorful fruits their rich hues, especially berries, promote health and might even prevent cancer. But for the first time, scientists have exposed extracts from numerous berries high in those pigments to human saliva to see just what kinds of health-promoting substances are likely to survive and be produced in the mouth…

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Age has no correlation with cancer treatment: study

By on Thursday, January 17th, 2013 | No Comments

The effectiveness of cancer treatment depends on the patient’s willingness to survive and physical condition rather than their age, a recent survey showed.

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MD Anderson study finds lung cancer patients live longer if they use beta-blockers while receiving radiotherapy

By on Thursday, January 10th, 2013 | No Comments

Patients with non-small-cell lung cancer survive longer if they are taking beta-blockers while receiving radiotherapy, according to a study of 722 patients published in the cancer journal Annals of Oncology. Researchers at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center reviewed the progress and outcomes of patients who had received radiotherapy as their main or first line of treatment for cancer.

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Video Explains Realities of CPR for Patients with Advanced Cancer

By on Thursday, January 10th, 2013 | No Comments

Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) does not revive most people with advanced cancer, and those who do survive often experience medical complications. A new study suggests that an educational video may help physicians communicate this information to patients in a meaningful way.

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