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Anti-Cancer Compound in Green Tea Identified
20 March 2005Spanish and British scientists have discovered how green tea helps to prevent certain types of cancer. - more
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Risks Outweigh Benefits Of Shark Cartilage As Anti-cancer Treatment
28 May 2005As a treatment for advanced cancer, shark cartilage fails to benefit patients and its adverse effects lead to poor compliance. A clinical trial published in the July 1, 2005 issue of CANCER, a ... - more
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Dame Cicely Saunders: Founder of the modern hospice movement
19 July 2005Dame Cicely Saunders, the founder of the modern hospice movement who was repsonsible for developing the discipline and culture of palliative care, died on the 14th July 2005. She insisted that dying ... - more
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Recent Evidence Suggests Caution In Prescribing Hormone Therapy For Breast Cancer And Sheds New Light On 'Menopausal Arthritis'
11 September 2005One of the most effective new treatments for breast cancer is a hormone therapy. Aromatase inhibitors work by powerfully blocking the conversion of androgen precursors into estrogens, which lowers ... - more
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Women Still At Risk Of Cervical Cancer Despite Treatment Removing Pre-cancerous Cells
24 November 2005Women who have had pre-cancerous cells removed remain at higher than average risk of developing cervical cancer in the 20 years following treatment, says research in this week's BMJ. - more
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Total nephrectomy overused in kidney cancer
28 February 2006Although partial nephrectomy may be appropriate for dealing with small renal masses, total nephrectomy appears to be the more usual surgical modality in the majority of such cancer patients, ... - more
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Technique could speed new treatments for medulloblastoma
2 May 2006A team led by Richard Gilbertson, MD, PhD, Developmental Neurobiology, is studying genes whose expression accurately reports the presence of gene mutations in biochemical pathways in medulloblastoma. ... - more
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Secret herb in tests to stop breast cancer patients' hot flushes and night sweats
11 May 2006Researchers at the University of Manchester are testing a secret herb in a bid to stop the severe hot flushes that besiege breast cancer patients on hormone treatment. - more
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OHSU Cancer Scientists Report More Accurate Prognosis of Colon Cancer Survival
14 June 2006Scientists at Oregon Health & Science University Cancer Institute and five other institutions have found a more accurate way to report and predict the survival of colon cancer patients by calculating ... - more
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Vaccine may guard against cervical cancer
30 June 2006A vaccine to protect women against cervical cancer was approved last week by the Food and Drug Administration after a 40-month trial of 4,000 young women at 13 U.S. sites, including Vanderbilt ... - more
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