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Monday, March 17th, 2008
HealthDay - FRIDAY, Dec. 7 (HealthDay News) — While genes and environment canaffect your risk for cancer, so can everyday lifestyle choices on thingssuch as diet, exercise and smoking, new research shows. (Link)
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Monday, March 17th, 2008
Identifying a lung tumor’s genetic profile may help doctors determine the best chemotherapy for patients, U.S. research suggests. (Link)
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Sunday, March 16th, 2008
Admin wrote: Medical scientists in Egypt have found that shisha smoking poses a greater health threat than cigarettes, contrary to popular belief among water pipe smokers. The scientists built a device to test the theory that smoking shishas, also known as hookahs, is safer as smoke is filtered through water before being inhaled. The medics found […]
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Saturday, March 15th, 2008
AFP - The contraceptive pill has prevented some 200,000 cases of ovarian cancer and 100,000 deaths from this disease since its introduction nearly half a century ago, according to a study published in next Saturday's Lancet medical journal. (Link)
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Saturday, March 15th, 2008
Scientists who study cancer may be prone to drawing simplistic conclusions from the powerful molecular tools now available because they don’t appreciate how complex the data is that is being generated, said a team of Georgetown University Medical Center (GUMC) researchers in the January issue of Nature Reviews Cancer. [click link for full article] […]
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Friday, March 14th, 2008
AFP - Acupuncture can increase the chance of success for couples seeking to have a baby through in-vitro fertilisation (IVF), according to a review published online Friday by the British Medical Journal (BMJ). (Link)
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Thursday, March 13th, 2008
Bayer has been granted marketing approval of Nexavar® in Japan for the treatment of advanced renall cell carcinoma (RCC), the most common form of kidney cancer. Nexavar is an oral multi-kinase inhibitor jointly developed by Bayer HealthCare AG and Onyx Pharmaceuticals, Inc. which targets both the tumor cell and tumor vasculature. In Japan, Nexavar is […]
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Thursday, March 13th, 2008
Reuters - Genentech Inc colon and lung cancer drug Avastin, along with standard chemotherapy, increases survival rates of patients with a very deadly type of brain tumor, U.S. researchers said on Thursday. (Link)
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Wednesday, March 12th, 2008
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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Wednesday, March 12th, 2008
New research in the December issue of Preventive Medicine, published by Elsevier, shows that there was a decline in access to cigarettes from commercial venues from 2000 to 2003.These findings are specific to the Minnesota Adolescent Community Cohort study, a longitudinal telephone survey of youth less than 18 years old. [click link for full article] […]
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