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PHARMAC has announced it is to fund a taxane drug for use in early stage breast cancer. The decision to fund Paclitaxel from tomorrow is expected to see up to 550 women with early breast cancer treated with the medicine. Taxanes are a class of chemotherapeutic drug funded for a number of cancers including ovarian, [...]
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ALEXANDRIA, VA, United States (UPI) — A protein in men can determine if they are likely to have a low or high risk of surviving prostate cancer, a new study finds. The protein is prostate-specific antigen, or PSA, which is made by the prostate gland. If men with prostate cancer have a low PSA level [...]
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BRITAIN is secretly considering whether to introduce a primary school vaccination program against cervical cancer. Research has found parents have mixed feelings about vaccinating pre-teen girls against the human papilloma virus, which is spread by sex and causes cervical cancer. Of the 3000 or so British women diagnosed with cervical cancer each year, more than [...]
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MORRISVILLE, N.C. – Sicel Technologies has signed on two cancer centers in Florida as the first commercial users of their implantable radiation sensor technology. Boca Raton Community Hospital’s Lynn Cancer Institute and Melbourne Internal  Medical Associates will use Sicel’s Dose Verification System as part of their treatment programs. The system includes an implantable radiation sensor and [...]
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Lung cancer survival rates in Northern Ireland could be doubled in the next 10 years if more action is taken, experts claimed today. And SDLP leader Mark Durkan, who has been selected to be a Parliamentary Lung Cancer Champion, will now work with the UK Lung Cancer Coalition (UKLCC) to raise awareness of the disease [...]
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Glioblastoma Multiforme is usually only has a survival rate up to one year after diagnosis. This primary brain tumor’s standard treatment is surgery to remove as much as the cancer as possible, radiation and or chemotherapy. Even with the most aggressive forms of treatment the patients do not survive.Researchers are trying to improve survival of [...]
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Acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) is uncommon in adults between 15 and 50 years of age but occurs more frequently in individuals over 50 years of age. The Philadelphia chromosome is a specific gene mutation that occurs in about 20 percent of all ALL cases. The Philadelphia chromosome occurs when specific genetic information is switched. Patients [...]
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Apoptosis is a mechanism that causes programmed cell death in our bodies. It all has to do with proteins and enzymes. The cancer cell mechanism is somehow broken and the enzyme that initiates programmed cell death does not work. This allows the cancer cell to grow into tumors.Scientists have found a way to trick the [...]
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According to University of Rochester Medical Center study people exposed to lead on the job are 50 percent more likely to die from brain cancer than people who are not exposed. The study author Edwin van Wijngaarden, Ph.D., said the study provides further evidence that widespread environmental risk factors such as lead must be explored. [...]
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Former El Paso Fire Department Captain and El Paso Community College instructor Robert J. Figueroa died Monday evening, his son Robert Figueroa Jr. said.Figueroa Sr. was at Providence Memorial Hospital, where he was heavily sedated after pancreatic cancer had spread through his body during prior weeks, his son said. The cancer previously had been treated [...]
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GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) — A woman who pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in the 1999 ax-killing of her husband has died of cancer while waiting for the Michigan Parole Board to reconsider her request for a medical commutation. Carla Ringleka, 56, who was from Stanton in Montcalm County, died around 2 a.m. Monday at [...]
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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Findings from a new study confirm that obesity is associated with decreased survival among women with ovarian cancer. “A large study reported last year showed that obesity adversely affects the survival of a number of cancers, including ovarian,” senior author Dr. Andrew J. Li, from Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los [...]
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