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New cancer tools allow patients to reconsider chemo

After decades of using one-size-fits-all therapies to combat cancer, doctors are using new tools to help decide when their patients can skip chemotherapy or other harsh treatments.

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Cancer Advocates Praise Angelina Jolie’s New York Times Mastectomy Op-Ed

Jolie faced an 87 percent risk of developing breast cancer, but treatments have brought the risk down to less than 5 percent.

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Video: Curing cancer in pets

Pets are now able to receive essential chemo and radiation treatments to cure cancer.

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Video: Curing cancer in pets

Pets are now able to receive essential chemo and radiation treatments to cure cancer.

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Cancer clinic patients treated to bouquets for Mother’s Day

“It’s tough going through cancer treatments, but especially tough for families when mom is going through cancer care,” the clinic said in a release.

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Stem cell researchers move toward treatments for rare genetic nerve disease

Researchers have used induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSC) to advance disease-in-a-dish modeling of a rare genetic disorder, Ataxia Telangiectasia. Their discovery shows positive effects of drugs that may lead to effective new treatments for the neurodegenerative disease. iPSC are made from patient skin cells rather than from embryos and can become any type of cells in the laboratory.

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Assembly of a protein degradation machine could lead to treatments in cancer, neurological diseases

Scientists have discovered new details about an assembly intricate process in cells and the proteins named chaperones that controls it. Their finding may advance treatments for cancer and neurological diseases.

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Cancer treatment bill clears Fla. Legislature

Florida lawmakers have passed legislation that would require health insurers to provide the same level of coverage for cancer treatments given orally as those drugs administered intravenously.

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Researchers Identify Mutations That Cause Blood Cancer Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML)

A group of researchers has just identified all of the genetic mutations that cause blood cancer acute myeloid leukemia (AML), which could help drive further research for newer and better treatments for AML. The research, which was published online in The New England Journal of Medicine, could help base treatments for AML according to the genetic profile of the patient’s cancer…

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Donations start coming in for T&A’s Bradford Crocus Cancer Appeal

Donations have started pouring into the Telegraph & Argus Bradford Crocus Cancer Appeal, which aims to raise A 1 million towards developing pioneering cancer treatments in the city faster than ever before.

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