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• BMJ video: The woman who knew too much

  
  Clinical Cases and Images - Blog — Authority: 505
  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: 727
  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 ...
  13 hours ago

• Does Green Tea Prevent Cancer? Evidence Continues To Brew, But Questions Remain

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 743
  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 ...
  15 hours ago

• 1930S Drug Slows Tumor Growth

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 743
  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.
  15 hours ago

• 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: 431
  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: 743
  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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• Insights Into The Molecular Basis Of Tumor Cell Behavior

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 743
  A new study by a team of researchers led by Crislyn DSouza-Schorey, associate professor of biological sciences at the University of Notre Dame, sheds light on the molecular basis by which tumor cells modulate their surroundings to favor cancer progression.
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• Grand Opportunity Grant Funds Rapid Saliva Test Using Lab-On-A-Chip

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 743
  The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded researchers in Rice Universitys new BioScience Research Collaborative (BRC) a $2 million Grand Opportunity (GO) grant to develop a fast, inexpensive test for oral cancer that a dentist could perform simply by using a brush to collect a small sample of cells from a ...
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• Society of Interventional Radiology hosts oncology therapies Webinar, offers resources

  
  emedist.com — Authority: 159
  (Society of Interventional Radiology) Registration is now open for the Society of Interventional Radiology’s “Image-guided Interventional Oncology Therapies” Webinar, which will provide the latest updates on percutaneous and transcatheter treatment [...]
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• New finding suggests prostate biopsy is not always necessary

  
  emedist.com — Authority: 159
  (Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center) Researchers at Wake Forest University School of Medicine and the University of Wisconsin-Madison have discovered that some elevated prostate-specific antigen (PSA) levels in men [...]
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• PET imaging response a prognostic factor after thoracic radiation therapy for lung cancer

  
  emedist.com — Authority: 159
  (Thomas Jefferson University) A rapid decline in metabolic activity on a PET scan after radiation therapy for non-small cell lung cancer is correlated with good local tumor control, according to [...]
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• Continuous learning in Pharma marketing

  
  Pharma Strategy Blog — Authority: 532
  Many of us in the industry attend annual meetings in our specialty area thus the regular conference season is full of events such as the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO), American Association of Cancer Research (AACR), American Society of Hematology (ASH), American Society of Therapeutic Radiology ...
  3 days ago

• Green Tea Shows Promise As Reducer Of Oral Cancer Risk In Trial

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 743
  A new study led by US researchers suggests that green tea extract may be a promsing agent for preventing oral cancer in patients with a pre-malignant condition known as oral leukoplakia.
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• Cancer Patients Want Honesty, Compassion From Their Oncologist

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 743
  What do patients want from their radiation oncologists? The most significant preference is that more than one-third of female cancer patients (37 percent) prefer to have their hands held by their radiation oncologists during important office visits, compared to 12 percent of men, according to a rando
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• Cancer Patients Want Honesty, Compassion From Their Oncologist

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 743
  What do patients want from their radiation oncologists? The most significant preference is that more than one-third of female cancer patients (37 percent) prefer to have their hands held by their radiation oncologists during important office visits, compared to 12 percent of men, according to a rando
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• Chemo-radiation before prostate removal may prevent cancer recurrence

  
  emedist.com — Authority: 159
  (Oregon Health & Science University) Researchers in the Oregon Health & Science University Knight Cancer Institute and the Portland Veterans Affairs Medical Center have found a combination of radiation therapy [...]
  3 days ago

• Green tea shows promise as chemoprevention agent for oral cancer, M. D. Anderson study finds

  
  emedist.com — Authority: 159
  (University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center) Green tea extract has shown promise as cancer prevention agent for oral cancer in patients with a pre-malignant condition known as oral [...]
  3 days ago

• Does green tea prevent cancer? Evidence continues to brew, but questions remain

  
  emedist.com — Authority: 159
  (American Association for Cancer Research) 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 [...]
  3 days ago

• Nanostart Majority-Owned MagForce Announces Successful Completion Of Final Clinical Trials For Nano-Cancer(R) Therapy

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 743
  MagForce Nanotechnologies AG, the Berlin-based medical technology company majority owned by Nanostart AG, today announced the successful completion of final trials demonstrating the efficacy of its Nano-Cancer® therapy in patients with recurrent glioblastoma, a frequent form of brain tumor which is highly malignant. ...
  3 days ago

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