Oncology & Cancer
A promising breath-test for cancer
The global quest to use a person's breath analysis for rapid, inexpensive and accurate early-stage testing for cancer and other diseases has taken a leap forward.
Oct 5, 2020
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Oncology & Cancer
Mouth cancer rates soar over 20 years
A new Cancer Research UK analysis reveals that rates of mouth (oral) cancer have jumped by 68 per cent in the UK over the last 20 years, today (Friday).
Nov 25, 2016
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Oncology & Cancer
Study examines rates of common oral infection that can cause mouth cancer
Researchers at the University of Derby have carried out the first pilot study in the UK looking at the rates of a common oral infection in young healthy adults which can cause cancer in the mouth.
Oct 26, 2016
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Oncology & Cancer
Head and neck cancer -- what you need to know
It is estimated that 40,000 men and women in the United States will develop head and neck cancer in the coming year. Head and neck cancer involves the cells that line the mucosal surfaces or moist tissue lining in the head ...
Apr 21, 2011
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Oncology & Cancer
Discovery contributes to future treatment of cervical cancer
A team of scientists from Cancer Science Institute of Singapore (CSI Singapore) at the National University of Singapore (NUS) has uncovered new molecular interactions involved in the development of cervical cancer. Proteins ...
Dec 4, 2015
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Oncology & Cancer
Cancer incidence in China and the USA: Scientists discuss changing and converging trends
The overall burden of cancer has gradually increased in China in recent years. By comprehensively examining data from multiple large databases, researchers have elucidated the similarities and differences between cancer epidemiology ...
Mar 31, 2022
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Medications
HIV drug could prevent cervical cancer
A widely used HIV drug could be used to prevent cervical cancer caused by infection with the human papilloma virus (HPV), say scientists.
May 3, 2011
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
HPV may lurk in your throat
Human papilloma virus (HPV), the culprit behind cervical cancer and some forms of head and neck cancer may hide in small pockets on the surface of tonsils in people not known to carry the virus. The finding, reported by University ...
Jan 31, 2018
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Oncology & Cancer
Panel: Boys should get HPV vaccine given to girls
(AP) -- A vaccine against cervical cancer hasn't been all that popular for girls. It may be even a harder sell for boys now that it's been recommended for them too.
Oct 25, 2011
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
In sub-Saharan Africa, cancer can be an infectious disease
In 1963, Irish surgeon Denis Parson Burkitt airmailed samples of an unusual jaw tumor found in Ugandan children to his colleague, Anthony Epstein, at Middlesex Hospital in London. Epstein, an expert in chicken viruses and ...
Aug 26, 2016
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