The Lance Armstrong Foundation (LAF) announced that Mary Robinson, the first female President of Ireland and former United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, will serve as Honorary Chairperson of the LIVESTRONG Global Cancer Summit. The Summit, to be held in Dublin, Ireland August 24-26, 2009, is the landmark event of the LIVESTRONG Global Cancer [...]
A prevention program serving an ethnically diverse population of women at high risk of cancer is detailed in an article published Monday 23 March in the online peer-reviewed journal ecancer.
The article describes a screening program to identify women from underserved communities who are at a high risk of developing breast or ovarian cancer; a pilot [...]
A new metal nanostructure developed by researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, has already shown promise in cancer therapy studies and could be used for chemical and biological sensors and other applications as well.
The hollow gold nanospheres developed in the laboratory of Jin Zhang, a professor of chemistry and biochemistry at UCSC, have [...]
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Despite its limitations, FNA offers lower cost, less invasion, and fewer complications. Experts discuss why they chose FNA over core biopsy.
In the past decade, core biopsy has largely replaced fine-needle aspiration for breast tissue evaluation. The latter technique’s inability to distinguish between invasive cancer and in situ cases and a general unease among pathologists [...]
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