22nd February 2010
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Cancer, Prostate Cancer
UroToday.com – This type of trial is very difficult to conduct, resulting in slow accrual, and ultimately, early closure. Thus the study is underpowered. Other shortcomings are pointed out in our discus[...]
Tags: Cancer, Cryoablation, Prostate Cancer, Radiotherapy
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18th February 2010
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Breast cancer
A new US study suggests that regular taking of aspirin is linked to increased survival after a breast cancer diagnosis and also to a lower risk of the disease recurring. However, as this was an observational[...]
Tags: aspirin, Breast cancer, Breast Cancer Survival, Cancer
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11th February 2010
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Health News
UnitedHealthcare, one of the nation’s biggest insurance companies, has decided to take a more active role in the care of its policy holders who are being treated for several types of cancer, The Wall [...]
Tags: Assessing Cancer Treatments, Cancer, cardiovascular disease treatment, orthopedic surgeries
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9th February 2010
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Health News
The drug pazopanib (Votrient) slowed the progression of advanced renal cell carcinoma(RCC), a form of kidney cancer, in patients by 54% percent, according to a new study published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology.
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Tags: Cancer, Kidney Cancer, pazopanib (Votrient), renal cell carcinoma(RCC), tumors
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28th January 2010
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Medical News
It’s been implicated as the bacterium that causes ulcers and the majority of stomachcancers, but studies by researchers at UC Davis, Stanford University and the University of Pittsburgh have found that Helicobacter[...]
Tags: Cancer, Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori), stomachcancers, tuberculosis(TB)
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26th January 2010
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Medical News
Scientists trying to understand how cancer cells invade healthy tissue have used the fruit fly’s metamorphosis from maggot to flying insect as a guide to identify a key molecular signal that may be involved in bot[...]
Tags: Cancer, metamorphosis
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