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Cancer by Body Location

Ballesteros' Most Difficult Game

Seve Ballesteros is to undergo a biopsy on his brain tumour in what he has called "the most difficult game of my life". Seve Ballesteros was diagnosed with a brain tumour over the weekend Concerns over the 51-year-old's health...

Women weigh options on breast reconstruction

Women who have their breasts reconstructed will not get perfect replicas of their original breasts. But "reconstruction options definitely have improved in the past few years and provide women with a better cosmetic outcome,"...

Quark Pharmaceuticals' siRNAs examined alone and in xombination with chemotherapy

Quark Pharmaceuticals, Inc. has announced that the journal Cancer Research published results on efficacy of siRNA targeting its proprietary target gene against non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) in the edition dated October 1,...

Nigeria: Cancer Not Usually Terminal

Dr. Abiodun Popoola is a consultant oncologist at the Lagos State University College of Medicine (LASUCOM), Ikeja. He said in this interview with Isioma Madike that cancer is curable if detected early. Excerpts:

Elusive cure

second of six chapters For nearly a decade, Dr. Leisha Emens has been driven to develop a vaccine to stop breast cancer I n a darkened slice of a convention center ballroom, Dr. Leisha Emens takes her place in front of hundreds...

Oral cancer rates rising is linked to virus spread by sex

By Cynthia Billhartz Gregorian Ten years ago, most of Dr. Brian Nussenbaum's oral cancer patients were men over 60 who used tobacco and drank heavily. "We know now that 98 percent of cervical cancer is caused by HPV, and mostly...

Breast cancer risk linked to base

Researchers from Boston University have found that women who lived near the Massachusetts Military Reservation from 1947 to 1956 had an elevated risk of developing breast cancer several decades later.

GTx Announces Investigational Ostarine(TM) (MK-2866) Met the Primary Endpoint in the Phase II...

MEMPHIS, Tenn----GTx, Inc. today announced topline results of a Phase II clinical trial evaluating Ostarineâ„¢ , an investigational selective androgen receptor modulator , in patients with cancer induced muscle loss, also known...

Breakout drug Herceptin brings new age in breast cancer care

In the past decade, the Food and Drug Administration has approved a growing fleet of new "targeted" therapies for several kinds of cancer. 1998: Herceptin, advanced breast cancer , kidney cancer 2006: Vectibix , colorectal...

Trying to go the nose one better

Doctors may soon have a new diagnostic tool in their kit bags to help sniff out disease. He used a technique called gas chromatography, which enables complex mixtures to be separated into their components, to detect around 250...

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