Lancet Oncology
Latin America risks being 'overwhelmed' by burgeoning cancer epidemic
Latin America is facing an alarming increase in cancer rates, and unless urgent action is taken to prevent cancers, improve health-care systems and facilities, access to vital medical care, and treatment of poor people, the ...
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Apr 25, 2013 |
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3-D breast screens improve detection and reduce false positives
Three-dimensional breast screens (mammograms) could offer substantial improvements in cancer detection and reducing false positives when used in conjunction with traditional two-dimensional mammograms, according to the results ...
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Apr 24, 2013 |
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Cancer researchers discover new type of retinoblastoma in babies
A team of Canadian and international cancer researchers led by Dr. Brenda Gallie at the Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, University Health Network (UHN), has discovered a new type of retinoblastoma, a rapidly developing eye ...
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Mar 12, 2013 |
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Oestrogen patches could offer a new treatment option for prostate cancer patients
Patches giving oestrogen through the skin could be an easy and safe alternative to the hormone therapies used to treat prostate cancer, according to new research published in the Lancet Oncology, today (Monday).
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Mar 04, 2013 |
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Childhood cancer in developing countries—a growing health threat that could be easily managed
Across the developing world, childhood cancer is on the rise, and mortality is high. Once thought of as a rich world disease, cancer is a growing health threat across low-income and middle-income countries (LMCs). A major ...
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Feb 19, 2013 |
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Improvement in child cancer survival rates threatened by lack of new drug development
Remarkable improvements in survival from childhood cancer have taken place in high- income countries over the past 50 years, but further progress is being threatened by increasingly strict research regulations and insufficient ...
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Feb 19, 2013 |
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Researchers discover breakthrough in ovarian cancer
Researchers at The University of Arizona Cancer Center at St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center in Phoenix have discovered that many women with low-grade serous carcinoma of the ovary or peritoneum have seen their tumors ...
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Feb 14, 2013 |
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Study drug is first to help patients with recurrent low-grade ovarian cancer
Low-grade serous ovarian cancer is less common and aggressive than the high-grade variety, yet exceptionally difficult to treat when frontline therapy fails.
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Feb 08, 2013 |
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Long-term side-effects of targeted therapies in pediatric cancer patients
A University of Colorado Cancer Center review published this week in the journal Lancet Oncology describes possible long-term side-effects of new, targeted therapies in pediatric cancer patients: what we don't know may hu ...
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Feb 07, 2013 |
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Pioneering study shows that local volunteers increase early breast cancer detection rates in a low-income rural area
The study, published in The Lancet Oncology, is the first ever assessment of the effect of cancer screening in rural sub-Saharan Africa, and the authors are hopeful that their work, which is on-going, will ultimately show t ...
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Jan 30, 2013 |
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Researchers report first success of targeted therapy in most common non-small cell lung cancer
A new study by an international team of investigators led by Dana-Farber Cancer Institute scientists is the first to demonstrate that chemotherapy and a new, targeted therapy work better in combination than chemotherapy alone ...
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Nov 28, 2012 |
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Drug combination shrinks secondary brain tumours in breast cancer without substantial side effects of radiotherapy
The sizeable and increasing proportion of women with advanced breast cancer whose disease has spread to the brain could be effectively treated systemically with a combination of two drugs, sparing them the debilitating neurological ...
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Nov 01, 2012 |
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Researchers report first effective treatment of tumors arising from common genetic disease NF1
Physician-researchers at Indiana University School of Medicine have reported the first effective therapy for a class of previously untreatable and potentially life-threatening tumors often found in children.
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Nov 01, 2012 |
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Bowel cancer 'chemo swap' shrinks tumours, making surgery safer and easier
Giving some bowel cancer patients six weeks of chemotherapy before surgery can significantly shrink their tumour, making it easier to remove and potentially reducing the chances of the cancer coming back, ...
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Nov 01, 2012 |
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Breast cancer and periods: Link more important in specific cancers
(Medical Xpress)—The younger a woman starts her periods, and the later she finishes, the more at risk she is from developing breast cancer. Now a new study led by Oxford researchers shows that these factors ...
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Oct 18, 2012 |
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