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British scientists have made a significant breakthrough in the treatment of ovarian cancer by discovering a way to reverse the resistance to drugs that denies thousands of women patients each year a chance of survival. Ovarian Cancer is a common disease and one of the hardest to treat. Around 70 per cent of patients cannot [...]
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In September of 1998, the FDA approved Herceptin to treat breast cancer after it had become metastatic. Few days back, the FDA approved Herceptin’s use for women diagnosed with breast cancer just after surgery. The drug is already widely prescribed for adjuvant therapy even without the FDA’s approval, a practice called off-label use. Off-label use [...]
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A test that measures the amounts of two members of the same protein family – one of which appears to act as an oncogene, and the other as a tumor suppressor – helps identify patients with breast cancer who will likely benefit from chemotherapy and those who won’t, according to researchers. OncoPlan, a test is [...]
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Under a new proposed law, sixth grade girls of Michigan State are required to be vaccinated against cervical cancer. The proposed law would require girls headed for sixth grade next year to be immunized against the human papilloma virus (HPV), which causes most cervical cancers and can also cause genital warts. The American Cancer Society [...]
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Rosemont Mayor Donald E. Stephens is one of the nation’s longest-serving mayors. Stephens, 78, announced on Thursday, that he has undergone surgery for stomach cancer and hopes to return to work soon. Doctors operated on Stephens in May at Advocate Lutheran General Hospital in Park Ridge. The northwest suburban mayor said he finished radiation treatments [...]
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As per an international study, doctors can determine the risk of breast cancer recurrence or death with the help of a test that checks the expression of 70 genes related with breast cancer. The studies included as many as 307 patients and were followed for 13.6 years. The patients were categorized in to high- and [...]
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Source: Yahoo Press Release AHMEDABAD, Gujarat, India, Sept. 1 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Cancer patients in the Indian state of Gujarat can now receive state-of-the-art image-guided radiotherapy (IGRT) treatments using equipment from Varian Medical Systems with the opening of a new radiation oncology center at Apollo Hospital, Ahmedabad. On Thursday, August 24, clinicians delivered the first IGRT [...]
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Around 40 New Zealand breast cancer patients are hoped to be taking part in an international drug trial which aims to improve medication used to prevent recurrence of the disease. The trial will compare two new aromatatse inhibitors – treatments which effectively starve breast cancer cells of oestrogen, preventing the disease from recurring in post-treatment [...]
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TEENAGERS with cancer would stand a better chance of survival if they were treated at a specialist centre for young people, an expert said today. Health bosses are exploring proposals to establish a cancer treatment facility in Edinburgh dedicated to the care of adolescents and young adults as part of an on-going review of children’s [...]
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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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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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Scientists have developed a way of “executing” cancer cells. Healthy cells have a built-in process which means they commit suicide if something is wrong, a process which fails in cancer cells. The University of Illinois team created a synthetic molecule which caused cancer cells to self-destruct. Cancer experts said the study, in Nature Chemical Biology, [...]
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