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Researchers call on physicians to urge newly diagnosed cancer patients to quit smoking
Yale Cancer Center experts in collaboration with the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) are calling on physicians to routinely recommend that patients stop smoking after a diagnosis of cancer. ...
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Apr 10, 2013 |
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AACR releases policy guidance on tobacco and cancer clinical trials
An American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) statement calls on the oncology community to provide evidence-based tobacco cessation treatment for all cancer and cancer-screening patients and to evaluate tobacco as a ...
Cancer
Apr 10, 2013 |
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Prevalence of benign disease diagnosis after lung surgery varied widely by state
Benign disease diagnosis rates after surgery for suspected lung cancer varied widely by state, and the reasons for these variations could inform health policy and clinical guidelines for lung cancer screening, according to ...
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Apr 10, 2013 |
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Alcohol consumption has no impact on breast cancer survival
Although previous research has linked alcohol consumption to an increased risk of developing breast cancer, a new study has found that drinking before and after diagnosis does not impact survival from the disease. In fact, ...
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Apr 08, 2013 |
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'Extracellular vesicles' may open new opportunities for brain cancer diagnosis and treatment
The recent discovery of circulating "nano-sized extracellular vesicles" (EVs) carrying proteins and nucleic acids derived from brain tumors may lead to exciting new avenues for brain cancer diagnosis, monitoring, and treatment, ...
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Apr 08, 2013 |
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Higher soy intake prior to lung cancer diagnosis linked to longer survival in women
New results from a large observational follow-up study conducted in Shanghai, China, indicate that women with lung cancer who consumed more soy food prior to their cancer diagnosis lived longer than those who consumed less ...
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Mar 25, 2013 |
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New imaging agent enables better cancer detection, more accurate staging
Researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine have shown that a new imaging dye, designed and developed at UC San Diego Moores Cancer Center, is an effective agent in detecting and mapping cancers ...
Cancer
Mar 20, 2013 |
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Your chances of dying by 2023? Test offers a clue
Want to know your chances of dying in the next 10 years? Here are some bad signs: getting winded walking several blocks, smoking, and having trouble pushing a chair across the room.
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Mar 06, 2013 |
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Neighborhood poverty and health insurance figure in late-stage diagnosis of breast cancer
Home may be where the heart is, but where you live could affect your health.
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Mar 05, 2013 |
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Cancer doesn't change young girls' desire to have children, study shows
Researchers at Moffitt Cancer Center and colleagues have found that healthy adolescent females have predetermined expectations for becoming parents in the future, but have concerns about fertility and childbearing should ...
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Mar 01, 2013 |
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Nearly one in four women newly diagnosed with breast cancer
A study by researchers at the Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center (HICCC) at NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia University Medical Center, has found that nearly one in four women (23 percent) newly diagnosed with breast ...
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Feb 28, 2013 |
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Capturing cancer cells
(Medical Xpress)—When dealing with cancer, time is critical. Identifying cancer before it spreads can often be the difference between life and death, so early diagnosis is key.
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Feb 26, 2013 |
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Patients get little advice about effect of gynaecological cancer on sexuality, study says
A study in Ireland found that women recovering from gynaecological cancer received little advice from healthcare professionals about the effects of the disease on sexuality. This was not as important in initial stages of ...
Cancer
Feb 21, 2013 |
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Number one reason people say they might delay seeing GP is difficulty making an appointment
More than a third (39 percent) of people in Britain say difficulty making an appointment might put them off going to the doctor about a symptom they think could be serious according to a new study from Cancer Research UK.
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Feb 20, 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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