Oncology

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• FDA-approved drugs eliminate, prevent cervical cancer in mice

  
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  (University of Wisconsin-Madison) Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health have eliminated cervical cancer in mice with two FDA-approved drugs currently used to treat breast [...]
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• Dust control research leads to a NIOSH grant to facilitate adoption of hazard controls

  
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  (Virginia Tech) In the construction industry, respiratory disease, often leading to disability or an increased risk of cancer, is a major public health concern. Studies led by Deborah Young-Corbett [...]
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• News brief: Detecting overall survival benefit derived from progression-free survival

  
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  (Journal of the National Cancer Institute) Overall survival may be a reasonable primary endpoint when the median survival post-progession (SPP) is less than six months, but it is too high [...]
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• Hundreds of genes distinguish patients likely to survive advanced melanoma

  
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  (NYU Langone Medical Center / New York University School of Medicine) Some patients can live for years with melanoma that has spread beyond the skin to other organs. Now it [...]
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• Mentor Capital Growth Continues as Lead Investee Adds New Cancer Lab, Filings and Collaborators

  
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  SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Mentor Capital, Inc.
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• For young boys with cancer, testicular tissue banking may be option to preserve fertility

  
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  (Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia) Boys diagnosed with cancer before reaching puberty have a unique option for possibly preserving future fertility, which is often endangered by cancer therapies. In an [...]
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• CSHL study shows that some malignant tumors can be shut down after all

  
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  (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) More than half of all human cancers have mutations that disable a protein called p53. When cells lose p53, tumors grow aggressively and often cannot be [...]
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• St. Jude and UF Proton Therapy Institute to begin proton therapy clinical trial

  
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  (St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital) St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital and the University of Florida Proton Therapy Institute have formed a collaboration to provide proton therapy for St. Jude patients.source [...]
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• Newly discovered fat molecule: An undersea killer with an upside

  
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  (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution) A chemical culprit responsible for the rapid, mysterious death of phytoplankton in the North Atlantic Ocean has been found by collaborating scientists at Rutgers University and [...]
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• ZIOPHARM Presents Positive Palifosfamide Sarcoma Randomized Phase II Interim Data At Annual Meeting Of The Connective Tissue Oncology Society

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 739
  ZIOPHARM Oncology, Inc. (Nasdaq: ZIOP) presented today at the 15th Annual Connective Tissue Oncology Society (CTOS) Meeting, positive interim data from the multicenter randomized Phase II trial of palifosfamide (ZymafosTM, ZIO-201) treating patients with unresectable or metastatic soft tissue sarcoma.
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• Cancer and Tumours Beaten Using Traditional Herbal Remedies and Alternative Medicine. Fact or Fiction?

  
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  Are alternative medicines and herbal products as good as they say and do they really work? It’s a big topic But the results seem to say an emphatic yes! Are you frightened by the possibility of getting cancer? Does the word “cancer” upset you? Cancer, Its a powerful word isn’t it? A powerful source of ...
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• Scientists uncover new key to the puzzle of hormone therapy and breast cancer

  
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  (American Association for Cancer Research) The use of postmenopausal hormone therapy has decreased over time in the United States, which researchers suggest may play a key role in the [...]
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• Breast density associated with increased risk of cancer recurrence

  
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  (American Cancer Society) A new study finds that women treated for breast cancer are at higher risk of cancer recurrence if they have dense breasts. Published in the Dec. 15, [...]
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• BMJ video: The woman who knew too much

  
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  BMJ video: Alice Stewart: The woman who knew too much. "Alice Stewart was one of Britains foremost epidemiologists. However her recognition came late in her career, having spent her life fighting the establishments enshrined views. In the 1950s when she started her work, x-rays were routinely used in foetal ...
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• Green tea may help fight oral cancer (Re-issue)

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 726
  Washington, Nov 8 (ANI): Green tea extract has been found effective in preventing oral cancer, say researchers at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Centre.Green tea is rich in polyphenols, which have been known to inhibit carcinogenesis in preclinical models. “While still very early, and not definitive ...
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• Does Green Tea Prevent Cancer? Evidence Continues To Brew, But Questions Remain

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 739
  Although scientists are reluctant to officially endorse green tea as a cancer prevention method, evidence continues to grow about its protective effects, including results of a new study published in Cancer Prevention Research , a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research, which suggests some reduction ...
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• 1930S Drug Slows Tumor Growth

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 739
  Drugs sometimes have beneficial side effects. A glaucoma treatment causes luscious eyelashes. A blood pressure drug also aids those with a rare genetic disease. The newest surprise discovered by researchers at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine is a gonorrhea medication that might help battle cancer.
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• Mauritian Government Urges Institutions Using Radiation to Register

  
  Net News Publisher — Authority: 155
  All private and state institutions in Mauritius that are using radiation materials will have to inscribe the name of their institutions in a register in the future. Marcel Olitte, Responsible Officer for the Radiation Protection Authority, indicated here that in this context, the Ministry of Renewable Energy is ...
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• Typhoid Mary vs. Northwest Hospital

  
  The Assertive Cancer Patient — Authority: 430
  When Dr. Lee admitted me to the hospital, he put me in an isolation room. A day or so later, tests confirmed that I have C. diff., a nasty infection that is most often caught--and spread--in hospital settings.  When one of my doctors confirmed the diagnosis after a test of my stool, she asked me when I had most ...
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• 1930S Drug Slows Tumor Growth

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 739
  Drugs sometimes have beneficial side effects. A glaucoma treatment causes luscious eyelashes. A blood pressure drug also aids those with a rare genetic disease. The newest surprise discovered by researchers at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine is a gonorrhea medication that might help battle cancer.
  2 days ago

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