Oncology & Cancer
You can help reduce your colon cancer risk, expert says
(HealthDay)—Colorectal cancer is the second leading cause of cancer death in the United States, but there are ways you can help prevent it, an expert says.
Mar 8, 2013
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Oncology & Cancer
Can bacteria in your gut boost cancer therapies? A San Diego startup thinks so
San Diego's Persephone Biosciences, a startup working on cancer therapies and precision probiotics based on the gut microbiome, has landed $15 million in early stage seed investment.
Jul 21, 2022
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Medical research
Deadly complication of stem cell transplants reduced in mice
(Medical Xpress)—Studying leukemia in mice, researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have reduced a life-threatening complication of stem cell transplants, the only curative treatment when leukemia ...
Sep 27, 2012
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Ulcerative colitis, not crohn's, deaths down from 1982
(HealthDay)—Over the past 30 years in Denmark, mortality from ulcerative colitis (UC) has decreased, but mortality from Crohn's disease (CD) has remained persistently higher than the general population, according to research ...
Jan 21, 2013
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Oncology & Cancer
Critical illnesses cause 1 in 20 cancer patients to be admitted to intensive care, with 25% dying
Critical illness may affect chances of surviving cancer, a new study has found.
Aug 31, 2015
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Dentistry
A commercial intraoral camera with the ability to screen for cancer
At the forefront of a movement to rewrite oral and oropharyngeal cancer outcomes, Dr. Petra Wilder-Smith has spent the last two decades working on devices for early detection.
Jul 23, 2024
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Oncology & Cancer
Vitamin D metabolite helps stop drug-resistant cancer
What's good for our bones may also help stop cancer cells that develop resistance to multiple chemotherapy drugs.
Jun 14, 2019
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Oncology & Cancer
Large-scale cancer gene profiling is feasible but faces barriers
Researchers leading the largest genomic tumor profiling effort of its kind say such studies are technically feasible in a broad population of adult and pediatric patients with many different types of cancer, and that some ...
Nov 17, 2016
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Oncology & Cancer
Targeted therapy combination improves survival in patients with advanced bowel cancer
New data have shown for the first time that a combination of targeted therapies can improve survival in patients with advanced bowel cancer. Results of the BEACON CRC Phase III trial have shown that triple therapy targeting ...
Jul 6, 2019
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Oncology & Cancer
Cancers caught during screening colonoscopy are more survivable
Patients whose colorectal cancer (CRC) is detected during a screening colonoscopy are likely to survive longer than those who wait until they have symptoms before having the test, according to a study in the July issue of ...
Jul 13, 2015
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