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Doctors differ on prostate screening

Prostate screening tests detect prostate cancer early, but questions about whether the tests do more harm than good have made them one of the most hotly debated areas of medicine.

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

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

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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Matrix-Bio Options Metabolite Biomarker Technology From Purdue University To Evaluate Opportunities For New Cancer Diagnostic Tests

Matrix-Bio Inc., a diagnostics company that uses metabolite profiling to detect cancer and other diseases, has signed an exclusive agreement with the Purdue Research Foundation optioning metabolite biomarker technology and eight patent applications to evaluate the commercial potential of cancer diagnostics tests based on the technologies…

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New cancer drug shows promise for treating advanced melanoma

Researchers from UCLA’s Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center report that a new drug in preliminary tests has shown promising results with very manageable side effects for treating patients with melanoma, the deadliest form of skin cancer.

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Cell-Free DNA Accurately Correlates with Breast Cancer DNA

Researchers from Chronix Biomedical and The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center today announced that results from a pilot study demonstrating the utility of cell-free DNA blood tests as a companion diagnostic for breast cancer patients are to be reported in a poster presentation titled “Modulation of breast cancer cell-free DNA with … (more)

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Should Men Get PSA Tests to Screen for Prostate Cancer? — Dr. Mark Hackman — UHC TV

http://www.uhc.tv Men’s health expert Dr. Mark Hackman discusses whether men should get PSA tests to screen for prostate cancer. To ask your question about m…

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Tumour tests help predict best cancer treatments

Personalized medicine to guide prostate and other cancer treatment decisions is advancing as new tests for the genetic signature of tumours come on the market, Canadian oncologists say.

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Possible treatment for serious blood cancer

A single antibody could be the key to treating multiple myeloma, or cancer of the blood, currently without cure or long-term treatment. New tests have shown that the antibody is able to destroy myeloma cells.

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No Barrier To Predictive Testing Found In Breast Cancer Heterogeneity

Breast cancers contain many different cell types with different patterns of gene expression, but a new study provides reassurance that this variability should not be a barrier to using gene expression tests to help tailor cancer treatments to individual patients.

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