About 13,200 men and another 2,300 women in the United States over age 50 are estimated to have VEXAS syndrome, according to a new study. Long considered a mystery illness until its genetic basis was identified in 2020, the ...
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Rates of melanoma, a deadly form of skin cancer, are on the rise in Canada. Those living in southern and coastal areas are most at risk, according to a new study led by McGill University.
Jun 20, 2022
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Researchers from the Georg-Speyer-Haus in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, were able to identify a new approach for the therapy of colorectal cancer (CRC) as part of an interdisciplinary project of the LOEWE Center Frankfurt Cancer ...
Oct 20, 2022
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Today, cancer represents the second leading cause of death in the world after cardiovascular diseases. In the last decades of cancer research, lifestyle—especially physical inactivity, poor diet, obesity, alcoholism, and ...
Oct 14, 2022
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Even as the rates of some cancers are falling, Mayo Clinic is seeing an alarming trend: the dramatic rise of skin cancer, especially among people under 40. According to a study by Mayo Clinic researchers published in the ...
Apr 2, 2012
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Over the next two weeks, The Lancet will be publishing two reports calling for urgent global action on non-communicable diseases (NCDs).
Sep 4, 2020
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Pancreatic cancer has one of the highest mortality rates of any of the major cancers, and of the 43,000-plus Americans diagnosed with the disease each year, more than 94 percent die within five years of diagnosis. One reason ...
May 11, 2011
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The number of cancer cases has continued to rise across Europe, however mortality rates from the disease have fallen, according to the World Health Organization's "European Health Report", published Wednesday.
Sep 12, 2018
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An Ontario-led research group has discovered a novel cancer-driving mutation in the vast non-coding regions of the human cancer genome, also known as the "dark matter" of human cancer DNA.
Oct 9, 2019
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A new study finds that while colorectal cancer mortality rates dropped in the most recent two decades for every stage in both African Americans and whites, the decreases were smaller for African Americans, particularly for ...
Dec 22, 2011
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