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New research may explain why breast cancer tends to be more aggressive in women with denser breast tissue.
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Cancer biologists are turning their attention to the normal cells that give rise to cancers, to learn more about how tumor growth might be stopped at the earliest opportunity.
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Australian scientists have identified a way to 'switch off' a molecule, a key player in the molecular processes that trigger breast cancer and certain forms of leukaemia.
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UC Davis Cancer Center physicians today released results of research showing that Vietnam War veterans exposed to Agent Orange have greatly increased risks of prostate cancer and even greater risks of getting the most aggressive form of the disease as compared to those who were not exposed.
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Among patients with castration-resistant prostate cancer, the addition of hormone therapy following vaccine treatment improved overall survival compared with either treatment alone or when the vaccine followed hormone treatment, according to recent data published in the July 15 Clinical Cancer Research, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research.
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Early laboratory research has shown that resveratrol, a common dietary supplement, suppresses the abnormal cell formation that leads to most types of breast cancer, suggesting a potential role for the agent in breast cancer prevention.
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Drug that restores tumor-suppressor gene expression originated at M. D. Anderson.
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Nurse-Administered Prevention and Management Strategies Can Decrease Incidence of Lymphedema and Improve Quality of Life in Patients .
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Prompt treatment of a microbe that causes stomach ulcers and other ailments can reverse damage to the lining of the stomach and ultimately prevent one of the most lethal forms of cancer from developing there, MIT researchers have concluded.
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As our population ages and senior citizens become a larger demographic, cancer researchers are focusing on the links between aging and cancer.
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Minorities in Cancer Research (MICR), a 3,000-member group within the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR), has selected the winners of two scholar awards for scientists working in underrepresented areas of the cancer research community.
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MIT broke ground on Friday for the new David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, a facility that its director, Tyler Jacks, said will usher in "the next generation in cancer research"
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Snippets of genetic material that have been linked to cancer also play a critical role in normal embryonic development in mice, according to a new paper from MIT cancer biologists.
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Researchers have long searched for a novel cancer drug that activates a certain protein to kill tumor cells. But finding a drug that kills the cancer without causing damage to normal cells has stymied researchers.
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Information could lead to more accurate prediction of cancer metastasis thereby improving patient management.
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An professor of Pathology and Molecular Medicine, he has recently received a three-year, $307,611 grant from the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation (CBCF) to support his research.
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A team of investigators from the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) Biomicroelectromechanical Systems (BioMEMS) Resource Center and the MGH Cancer Center has developed a microchip-based device that can isolate, enumerate and analyze circulating tumor cells (CTCs) from a blood sample.
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The age-old refrain, "Eat your vegetables" gets scientific support as researchers present the latest findings on cancer prevention at the American Association for Cancer Research.
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Quitting smoking and inoculation with the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine are two ways that major segments of the general population can drastically lower their risk of developing certain cancers
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The Georgia Cancer Coalition has named its 2008 GCC Distinguished Cancer Clinicians and Scientists and seven of the 29 scientists named are from the Emory University School of Medicine.
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