A new study presented at this year's European Congress on Obesity (ECO) in Maastricht, the Netherlands, and published simultaneously in BMC Medicine, has linked body fat (adiposity) with risk of fatal prostate cancer.
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Lung cancer is the second most common cancer in the United States and the leading cause of cancer death. The outcomes for lung cancer patients have improved, partly due to earlier detection through better screening approaches. ...
Apr 27, 2022
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DEAR MAYO CLINIC: I'm 46 and had my first colonoscopy last month. The doctor said everything looked good, although he removed a few polyps. Can you explain what a colon polyp is and if should I be concerned?
Apr 25, 2022
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April is Testicular Cancer Awareness Month, which makes this a good time to learn about testicular cancer. Compared with other types of cancer, testicular cancer is rare. But testicular cancer is the most common cancer in ...
Apr 21, 2022
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A Silicon Valley company has designed a technique to decipher the genetic code of a tiny embryo and calculate its future risk of cancer, diabetes and 10 other common diseases—presaging a day when parents could select children ...
Apr 6, 2022
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Scientists from St. Jude Children's Research Hospital have identified variants in two genes that are associated with accelerated aging in childhood cancer survivors. Their research looked at the difference between their ...
Mar 22, 2022
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A specific panel of gut microbes may identify pancreatic cancer, irrespective of how far the disease has progressed, suggests research published online in the journal Gut.
Mar 8, 2022
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Researchers have developed a new protocol for monitoring acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), the most common cancer in children, to inform more effective treatment strategies and detect disease recurrence. The personalized ...
Feb 8, 2022
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Breast cancer is the most common cancer in women worldwide, yet despite medical advances, a cure for the tumors that spread locally and especially to the distant sites remains out of reach.
Feb 3, 2022
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No single gene causes uterine cancer, the fourth most common cancer among women, which is on the rise in the U.S.
Jan 28, 2022
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