Archive for the ‘Cancer / Oncology’ Category
Thursday, February 28th, 2008
Report on Cancer Reform Strategy welcomed by Cancerbackup
In response to the Cancer Campaigning Group's (CCG) report released recently, 'Getting it right for people with cancer', on the government's Cancer Reform Strategy, Cancerbackup issues the following:
"The CCG is right to want to hold the government to account," says Joanne Rule, Cancerbackup's ...
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Thursday, February 28th, 2008
After the surgical removal of a malignant tumor, the chance that cancer will re-appear in a different location of the body remains high. But new research from Tel Aviv University, in a bold new field called Psychoneuroimmunology, may prevent those cancer cells from taking root again - and the key ...
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Thursday, February 28th, 2008
Tamzin Outhwaite has lent her support to the Make Today Count campaign for Cancer Research UK. The campaign will run on 2008's extra day, 29th February. It asks for people to do whatever they can to raise money for charity on that extra leap year day.
Tamzin said: "It's so easy ...
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Thursday, February 28th, 2008
Fox Chase Cancer Center has announced the first four awards in an innovative new research program designed to bring the power of team-based science to bear on some of the most significant questions in cancer research. The Keystone Programs for Collaborative Discovery aim to accelerate the pace of medical progress ...
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Thursday, February 28th, 2008
Less than one in five people can name the three cancers screened for by the NHS screening programme - new figures reveal.
The Cancer Research UK survey* of more than 4,150 people revealed that only 16 per cent could correctly identify breast, cervical, and bowel cancer as the three cancers currently ...
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Thursday, February 28th, 2008
Women from around the UK, including model Nell McAndrew, stripped bare to launch Cancer Research UK's Race for Life 2008 in chilly London. United by their individual cancer experiences, the women braved the cold to take part in a naked training session to highlight that every woman in the UK ...
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Tuesday, February 26th, 2008
With a four-year, $707,000 grant from the American Cancer Society, Yanchang Wang, assistant professor of biomedical sciences in the Florida State University College of Medicine, hopes to learn how a particular enzyme could possibly help put the brakes on the runaway cell division process that occurs in many forms of ...
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Monday, February 25th, 2008
A technique that specifically "tags" tumors responding to chemotherapy may offer a new strategy for determining a cancer treatment's effectiveness within days of starting treatment, according to a new study by Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center investigators.
Appearing online ahead of print in Nature Medicine, the researchers report the identification of a small ...
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Monday, February 25th, 2008
Although the cancer vaccine industry has remained historically undervalued due to its failures, optimism surrounds the industry as proponents of this technology have persistently pursued investigations to demonstrate the clinical efficacy of cancer vaccines. Cancer vaccines hold the potential to treat patients at an earlier stage of the disease, which ...
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