Oncology & Cancer

Ыtudy documents head and neck cancer molecular tumor subtypes

Head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC) is the seventh most common form of cancer in the United States, but other than an association with the human papillomavirus, no validated molecular profile of the disease has ...

Oncology & Cancer

US cancer death rates continue to decline, national report finds

A report from the nation's leading cancer organizations shows rates of death in the United States from all cancers for men and women continued to decline between 2000 and 2009. The findings come from the latest Annual Report ...

Oncology & Cancer

The effect of treating institution on outcomes in head and neck cancer

Patients with head and neck cancer receiving radiation treatment at an academic center have a higher survival rate than those receiving treatment at a community center, according to a study in the December 2012 issue of Otolaryngology–Head ...

Genetics

First gene therapy to go on sale in Europe in 2013

Dutch biotech company uniQure said Monday it would start selling the first human gene therapy to be approved in the West by mid-2013 and predicted an explosion of similar therapies to come.

Oncology & Cancer

Acupuncture may relieve dry mouth, study finds

Patients diagnosed with cancer of the head and neck are treated with radiation, which damages their salivary glands, and in turn causes xerostomia, what experts call dry mouth. New research from the United Kingdom suggests ...

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