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Drug boosts snakebite survival time by half: study

Rubbing snakebites with an ointment that slows the functioning of lymph glands could boost survival times by 50 percent, according to a study released Sunday.

Medicine & Health / Medications

created Jun 26, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 2

Hormone-blocking drug reduces breast cancer risk

(AP) -- Millions of women at higher-than-usual risk of breast cancer have a new option for preventing the disease. Pfizer Inc.'s Aromasin cut the risk of developing breast cancer by more than half, without the side effects ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Jun 04, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Droplets for detecting tumoral DNA

It will perhaps be possible, in the near future, to detect cancer by a simple blood or urine test. In fact, biologists from CNRS, Inserm, Paris Descartes and Strasbourg universities have developed a technique ...

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created May 23, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

RxPONDER trial will evaluate whether gene expression test can drive chemotherapy choice

Cancer researchers at hundreds of sites nationwide are about to launch a SWOG-led clinical trial that could keep thousands of breast cancer patients from getting chemotherapy that is unlikely to do them any good.

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Apr 26, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Laying bare the not-so-sweet tale of a sugar and its role in the spread of cancer

Cancer has a mighty big bag of tricks that it uses to evade the body's natural defense mechanisms and proliferate. Among those tricks is one that allows tumor cells to turn the intricate and extensive system of lymphatic ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Apr 25, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Frequent CT scanning for testicular cancer surveillance associated with secondary malignancies

UC Davis cancer researchers have found that older men with early-stage testicular cancer who opt for surveillance with regular CT scans over lymph node removal are at greater risk for secondary cancers. The findings, published ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Mar 30, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

New therapy found for rare lung disorder

Researchers at the University of Cincinnati (UC) and Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center have found that the FDA-approved drug sirolimus, used primarily to prevent rejection in organ transplant patients, stabilized ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Mar 16, 2011 | popularity 2 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Lymph node dissection is not essential in small screen-detected lung cancers, new research shows

Lymph node dissection, the current standard surgical treatment for localized non-small cell lung cancers, may be unnecessary in certain screen-detected early stage cases , according to a study published in the March issue ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Mar 01, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Gene expression to distinguish metastasizing from non-metastasizing head and neck cancers

The validation of a test, based on gene expression and predicting the tumours that will metastasize in lymph nodes of head & neck cancers, was presented today at the 3rd International Conference on innovative approaches in ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Feb 24, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Microbubbles to light the way to sentinel lymph nodes of breast cancer patients

Researchers at the University of California, San Diego are developing nonsurgical methods for identifying critical lymph nodes to help doctors determine courses of treatment for breast cancer patients. The ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Feb 23, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast


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