Metabolon, Inc., a world leader in metabolomics-based diagnostic tests and research services, announced today that it has raised $15 million in a Series E financing through the issuance of preferred stock. New investor Camden Partners led ...
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A certain type of diabetes drug may lower cancer risk in women with type 2 diabetes by up to one-third, while another type may increase the risk, according to a new study. Cleveland Clinic researchers analyzed data from more than 25,600 ...
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The United States Department of Commerce (DOC) has ruled that duties leveled on OTR tires exported to the United States from China under a previous countervailing duty order will remain in place. As published recently in the Federal ...
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Radiotherapy (RT) after breast conserving surgery (BCS) has been shown to reduce the risk of breast cancer (BC) recurrence. However, although younger women tend to have more aggressive tumors and have higher risks of recurrence than older ...
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Women with aggressive breast cancer who receive combination targeted therapy with chemotherapy prior to surgery have a slightly improved chance of staying cancer-free, researchers say. However, the improvement was not statistically ...
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Breast cancer risk in women may be tied to the rate at which their breast-tissue density changes as they age, a new study suggests. Researchers examined 282 breast cancer patients and 317 women without the disease who underwent both ...
By counting the number of cancer-fighting immune cells inside tumors, scientists say they may have found a way to predict survival from ovarian cancer. The researchers developed an experimental method to count these cells, called ...
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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For men having prostate cancer surgery, the type of anesthesia doctors use might make a difference in the odds of the cancer returning, a new study suggests. Researchers found that of nearly 3,300 men who underwent prostate cancer ...
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Women fighting an aggressive form of breast cancer may benefit from adding certain drugs to their chemotherapy regimen, and taking them prior to surgery, new research finds. This pre-surgical drug therapy boosts the likelihood that no ...
A US trade panel decided on Tuesday to extend antidumping and countervailing duties on hot- rolled steel products from five foreign countries after the second five-year review of the measures imposed initially in 2001. The US ...
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The US International Trade Commission said Tuesday that revoking antidumping and countervailing duty orders on hot-rolled steel products from six countries likely would lead to continuation or recurrence of material injury. The ruling in ...
The European Commission has announced that it has launched an expiry review regarding the antidumping (AD) duty on welded pipe imports from Belarus, China, Russia and Ukraine. The expiry review application was lodged by the Defence ...
The US International Trade Commission made its final determination Tuesday in the second sunset review of the antidumping orders (AD) orders on hot-rolled carbon steel flat products from China, India, Indonesia, Taiwan, Thailand, and ...
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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 ...