For years, scientists have been trying to solve a medical mystery: Why do people with type 1 or type 2 diabetes have an increased risk of developing some forms of cancer? Today, researchers report a possible explanation for ...
Aug 25, 2019
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A new study in mice teases out the nuances of sex differences and lifestyle influences on colon cancer risk. The research will be presented virtually at the American Physiological Society's (APS) New Trends in Sex and Gender ...
Oct 19, 2021
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Immunotherapies for cancer—treatments that prime the immune system to attack tumors—are valuable weapons in the anti-cancer arsenal. But some cancers are more difficult to target with this strategy than others. Today, ...
Aug 17, 2020
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Links between a number of common respiratory diseases and an increased risk of developing lung cancer have been found in a large pooled analysis of seven studies involving more than 25,000 individuals.
Aug 15, 2014
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Heat therapy may be a promising treatment in the fight against cancer, autoimmune problems and efforts to avoid organ rejection in transplant patients, according to researchers at the University of Kentucky. The research ...
Aug 30, 2017
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(HealthDay)—Outpatients find lung cancer screening decision aids helpful, according to a study published online Sept. 21 in the Annals of the American Thoracic Society.
Sep 30, 2016
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The International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer (IASLC), the American Thoracic Society (ATS), and the European Respiratory Society (ERS), have proposed a new sub-classification of lung adenocarcinomas. A growing ...
Dec 15, 2012
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(HealthDay)—Among patients who die in the intensive care unit (ICU), patients with chronic lung diseases receive fewer elements of palliative care than cancer patients, according to a study published online Jan. 19 in the ...
Feb 1, 2016
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A history of kidney problems may put people at a higher risk for impaired blood vessel function, which could lead to high blood pressure, preterm labor and other adverse outcomes, according to the results of a study in rats. ...
Jun 27, 2022
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Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and lung cancer are two of the most important smoking-related diseases worldwide, with a huge combined mortality bur¬den. Many consider the presence of COPD itself to be an independent ...
Dec 15, 2012
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