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Saturday, November 24th, 2007
The Metropolitan Chicago Breast Cancer Task Force on Wednesday released a list of 37 recommendations aiming to address a mortality rate gap between black and white women with breast cancer, the Chicago Sun-Times reports. Members of the task force studied the issue for a full year (Ritter, Chicago Sun-Times, 10/18). [click link for full article] […]
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Saturday, November 24th, 2007
Today, After a grueling hockey practice one evening, 46-year old Michael Meeking was alarmed to find himself coughing up blood. Thinking it was just a sports injury, or something that could be easily fixed with antibiotics, he was shocked when a CT scan revealed a massive tumour in his lungs. [click link for full article] […]
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Friday, November 23rd, 2007
AP - Being 25 pounds overweight doesn’t appear to raise your risk of dying from cancer or heart disease, says a new government study that seems to vindicate Grandma’s claim that a few extra pounds won’t kill you. (Link)
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Thursday, November 22nd, 2007
Admin wrote: The clinical importance of colorectal cancer screening is well established, however the majority of eligible people do not undergo screening tests. It is important to identify which tests may encourage individuals to be screened in order to help increase the survival rate of the disease. [click link for full article] (Link)
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Thursday, November 22nd, 2007
A leading government adviser has proposed a radical plan to persuade people to stop smoking, take more exercise and change their diets. New figures published show that England tops the European league as the fattest nation in the EU. [click link for full article] (Link)
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Wednesday, November 21st, 2007
Laboratory experiments have previously shown that cancer cells overproduce an enzyme, heparanase, which splits the body’s own polysaccharide heparan sulfate into shorter fragments. The amount of enzyme is related to the degree of malignancy. A study is published in the journal Nature Chemical Biology in which Uppsala University researchers show, on the basis of animal […]
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Tuesday, November 20th, 2007
Not everyone needs a genetic test before taking the cancer drug irinotecan, and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration should modify its prescription guidelines to say so, according to researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.Irinotecan, also known by its brand name Camptosar, is used mainly as a second-line treatment for colorectal […]
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Tuesday, November 20th, 2007
A new study supports the effectiveness of an innovative form of colonoscopy that relies on a CT scanner that’s sent through a patient’s colon. (Link)
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Monday, November 19th, 2007
Spectrum Pharmaceuticals, Inc., (Nasdaq: SPPI) announced that preclinical data on SPI-1620 was presented via poster presentations at the International Conference of the AACR-NCI-EORTC on Molecular Targets and Cancer Therapeutics, being held in San Francisco October 22-26, 2007. SPI-1620 is a drug that is being developed for use with chemotherapy. [click link for full […]
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Sunday, November 18th, 2007
Researchers are reporting a 150 percent increase between 1998 and 2003 in American women opting to have both breasts removed when cancer has been found in only one breast-a procedure called contralateral prophylactic mastectomy (CPM). This is the first study to examine these trends on a national level. [click link for full article] (Link)
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