After chemotherapy, surgery and radiation to treat the original tumor might not benefit women with advanced breast cancer, a new study shows. A minority of women with breast cancer discover they have the disease in its later stages, after ...
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The European Food Safety Authority says the artificial sweetener aspartame is safe at the levels currently used in food and drinks. Aspartame, sold as NutraSweet and Equal, has been used in soft drinks and other low-calorie or sugar-free ...
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Although the prevalence and impact of cancer-related fatigue has been well established, very little is known about its predictors, mechanisms for development, and persistence post-treatment. A new research study at the Cedars-Sinai Samuel ...
Adding the cancer drug dasatinib to standard hormone therapy may slow the progression of advanced breast cancer, a preliminary study suggests. The drug, sold under the name Sprycel, is already approved in the United States for chronic ...
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Cancer death rates continue to decline in the United States, mainly because anti-smoking efforts have caused a drop in lung cancer deaths, researchers report. From 2001 through 2010, death rates for all cancers combined decreased by 1.8 ...
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Few people realize how effective the vaccines against HPV (human papillomavirus) are for preventing cervical cancer, and even fewer talk about the vaccine with their doctors, according to a survey of more than 1,400 people. "From previous ...
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Preliminary research shows that gene therapy might one day be a powerful weapon against leukemia and other blood cancers. The experimental treatment coaxed certain blood cells into targeting and destroying cancer cells, according to ...
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Four out of five doctors who treat cancer were unable to prescribe their medication of choice at least once during a six-month period because of a drug shortage, according to a new survey. The survey also found that more than 75 percent ...
NanoString Technologies has announced new results from a combined analysis of the Austrian Breast & Colorectal Cancer Study Group 8 (ABCSG-8) and Trans-Arimidex, Tamoxifen, Alone or in Combination (TransATAC) studies. These results, which ...
HOUSTON — Mattress Firm has appointed industry veteran and philanthropist Roger Magowitz executive director of the Mattress Firm Foundation. He will oversee the day-to-day operations of the foundation, which raises awareness and funds ...
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Researchers at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Massachusetts Institute of Technology have developed a new type of nanoparticle, which can be taken orally and gets successfully absorbed through the digestive tract. The nanoparticles ...
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Navidea Biopharmaceuticals will collaborate with the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) on a clinical study that will assess the safety and activity of a radiolabeled, humanized monoclonal antibody from its RIGS (radio-immuno-guided ...
Viteava Pharmaceuticals has announced the execution of an exclusive worldwide license to an intellectual property portfolio claiming composition of matter and/or methods of use of novel analogs and derivatives of the green tea flavonoid, ...
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In case you missed it, the mainstream media is currently engaged in a gratuitous misinformation orgy following the release of a new observational study published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute, which absurdly claims that ...
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Preliminary studies identified the presence of breast cancer cells from serum biomarkers indicating a blood test may be possible, U.S. researchers say. Study leader biomedical engineer Tony Hu of Houston Methodist Research Institute in ...