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There Are Three Common Drugs for Advanced Ovarian Cancer
Feb 27, 2014There are three common drugs for advanced ovarian cancer: paclitaxel, cyclophosphamide, and topotecan. Like a shell game, if you pick the right drug a patient is likely to respond. And, unfortunately, picking the wrong drug can lead to ...
Tags: right drug, sophisticated model of ovarian cancer genetics
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Elderly Kidney Cancer Patients Benefit From Sunitinib Therapy
Feb 27, 2014By Sara Freeman, medwireNews Reporter Elderly kidney cancer patients benefit from sunitinib therapy just as much as their younger counterparts, a retrospective analysis of six clinical trials shows. Median progression-free survival ...
Tags: PFS, mRCC, Advanced Age, IFN
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Age Was a Key Risk Factor for Breast Cancer
Feb 25, 2014Age is a key risk factor for breast cancer. A recent study by researchers from the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Norris Cotton Cancer Center (NCCC), "Age-related DNA methylation in normal breast tissue and its relationship with invasive breast tumor ...
Tags: breast cancer, Epigenetics, connection between cancer and the aging
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Clinical Trials Investigating New Uses Have Produced Mixed Results
Feb 19, 2014Clinical trials investigating new uses for the anti-cancer drug Avastin have produced mixed results. When combined with standard chemotherapy, Avastin extended the survival of patients with advanced cervical cancer by nearly four months, ...
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Article Cites Potential to Save Money on End-of-Life Care, Medical Imaging and Drug Price
Feb 17, 2014Article cites potential to save money on end-of-life care, medical imaging and new drug prices In a review article published Feb. 14 in The Lancet Oncology, Johns Hopkins experts identify three major sources of high cancer costs and argue ...
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The Field of Science May Be The Simple Telephone
Feb 14, 2014Although the field of science keeps advancing, it may be the simple telephone that helps save more lives. Anita Kinney, Professor of Medicine and Associate Director for Population Sciences at the University of New Mexico Cancer Center, and ...
Tags: HEALTHCARE
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If You Want to Motivate Teens to Use Sunscreen,You Might Try Appealing to Their Vanity
Feb 14, 2014If you really want to motivate teens to use sunscreen, you might try appealing to their vanity. A new study suggests that telling teens about the negative effects of sun exposure on their appearance is more likely to convince them to use ...
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Childhood Obesity Rates Have Nearly Tripled in The Previous 30 Years
Feb 14, 2014Childhood obesity rates have nearly tripled in the previous 30 years and researchers are asking the important question of how this epidemic will impact the future health of these obese children and public health in general. A University of ...
Tags: Health, Medicine, Childhood obesity
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Several Individuals and Organizations Were Honored Today at The 95th Annual Meeting
Feb 10, 2014Several individuals and organizations were honored today at the 95th Annual Meeting of the New Jersey Hospital Association (NJHA) at the Hyatt Regency Princeton. NJHA Healthcare Leader Awards The 2014 Distinguished Service Award was ...
Tags: Healthcare, Njha
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Adamis Pharmaceuticals Has Announced an Important Addition to Its Intellectual Property
Feb 10, 2014Adamis Pharmaceuticals has announced an important addition to its intellectual property with receipt of a notice of allowance of patent claims supporting its cancer immunotherapy portfolio in the US. Notice of allowance is the final step ...
Tags: Cancer Immunology, Cancer, Cancer cure
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Doctors Have a Vital Role in Increasing The Number of Girls and Young Women
Feb 10, 2014MONDAY Jan.27,2014,2014--Doctors have a vital role in increasing the number of girls and young women who get a vaccine that helps protect them against cervical cancer,according to a new study. Despite calls by experts for universal human ...
Tags: Hpv Vaccination, HPV, Medicine
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Smokers and Other People at High Risk for Lung Cancer Could Make Matters Worse
Feb 8, 2014Smokers and other people at high risk for lung cancer could make matters worse if they take antioxidant supplements, a new study of rodents suggests. Antioxidants appear to accelerate cancer progression by short-circuiting one of the ...
Tags: antioxidants, health, Cancer
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Ewing's Sarcoma Is Most Commonly Caused by Improper Fusion of The Gene EWS with Gene FLI1
Jan 23, 2014Ewing's Sarcoma is an aggressive pediatric cancer, most commonly caused by the improper fusion of the gene EWS with the gene FLI1. Though the cause has long been known, therapeutic targeting of this fusion has to date proven very difficult. ...
Tags: Ewing's Sarcoma, health, gene
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Connection Between Smoking in Films and Influence on Adolescent Behavior Is Established
Jan 21, 2014The connection between smoking in films and its influence on adolescent behavior is well established by research and its impact was listed today in consumer materials accompanying the Surgeon General's Report: The Health Consequences of ...
Tags: Movie Smoking, Smoking, Health, Medicine
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Researchers Identified Critical Complex Mechanisms Involved in The Metastasis of Deadly
Jan 20, 2014A team of researchers from the Cleveland Clinic and Case Western Reserve School of Medicine have identified critical complex mechanisms involved in the metastasis of deadly "triple negative" breast cancers (TNBC). These tumors are extremely ...
Tags: Life-Saving Treatments, ight Tumor Metastasis, Life-Saving
