Oncology & Cancer
Cutting off melanoma's escape routes
Stopping melanoma from spreading to other parts of the body might be as simple as cutting off the blood supply to the cancer, according to researchers.
Jan 4, 2019
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Oncology & Cancer
Testicular cancer a bigger threat to young men
(HealthDay)—Testicular cancer occurs most often in young men, and they need to know the signs of the disease, a urologist says.
Jan 2, 2019
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Experts treat severe, disfiguring sarcoidosis with novel therapy
An all-Yale team of researchers successfully treated a patient with disfiguring sarcoidosis, a chronic disease that can affect multiple organs, with a drug approved for rheumatoid arthritis. Successful treatment of two other ...
Dec 26, 2018
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Oncology & Cancer
Fewer early stage breast cancer patients may need lymph node removal: study
(HealthDay)—For many breast cancer patients, removal of lymph nodes in the armpit area is a common procedure, due to worries that the tumor has spread to these tissues.
Dec 6, 2018
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Oncology & Cancer
Axillary RT and lymph node surgery yielded comparable outcomes for patients with breast cancer
Patients with early-stage breast cancer who had cancer detected in a sentinel lymph node biopsy had comparable 10-year recurrence and survival rates following either axillary radiotherapy or axillary lymph node dissection, ...
Dec 6, 2018
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Immunology
Memory B cells in the lung may be important for more effective influenza vaccinations
Seasonal influenza vaccines are typically less than 50 percent effective, according to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention studies. Research at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, published this week in Nature ...
Dec 5, 2018
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Oncology & Cancer
Oral cancer prognostic signature identified
Researchers in Brazil have identified a correlation between oral cancer progression and the abundance of certain proteins present in tumor tissue and saliva. The discovery offers a parameter for predicting progression of ...
Dec 5, 2018
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Oncology & Cancer
Immunotherapy drug made available for some NHS patients with advanced skin cancer after surgery
An immunotherapy drug will be made available to some patients with advanced melanoma skin cancer on the NHS in England.
Nov 30, 2018
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Oncology & Cancer
Radiation therapy advances extend, improve lives of patients with anal cancer, studies find
Two recent studies find advances in radiation therapy are helping to prolong or improve the lives of people with anal cancer, including those whose cancer has advanced to stage IV. Both studies were published in the International ...
Nov 8, 2018
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Lymph nodes are niches for prolonged tuberculosis infection
Lymph nodes can contain large numbers of tuberculosis-causing bacteria and serve as long-term reservoirs of bacterial persistence, according to a study published November 1 in the open-access journal PLOS Pathogens by JoAnne ...
Nov 1, 2018
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