Archive for the 'Cancer' Category

Funding For Clinical Trials For New Probe To Detect Skin Cancer

“Within a second, it can take a measurement and tell you whether or not its cancer,” says Tunnell, a biomedical engineer at The University of Texas at Austin. “And you can move the probe around quickly to different spots of the skin.” …
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Ardenwald hosting Breast Cancer Awareness concert

… thinks the neighborhood concert on Aug. 21 featuring blues musician Sonny Hess is going to be “very hot,” and she’s talking about the music, not the temperature. The event, billed as the Breast Cancer …
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Breast cancer without followup radiation therapy

More breast cancer news. Indulge me a little, please. I saw David Ollila this afternoon in the hospital’s Corner Cafe. I was too into my burrito bowl and he was in scrubs, so I didn’t attempt a conversation. …
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Prostate Cancer Foundation Commits $4.3 Million to Young

Business Wire (press release) Prostate Cancer Foundation Commits $4.3 Million to Young InvestigatorsBusiness Wire (press release),CA- 12 hours agoDes.
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Zoledronic Acid Protects Bones of Women Getting Breast Cancer

19 (HealthDay News) — Zoledronic acid prevents bone loss in breast cancer patients undergoing endocrine therapy and improves bone mineral density after treatment, according to an Austrian study. Adjuvant endocrine therapy is widely used …
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Christina Applegate is my new hero

After her recent breast cancer diagnosis she learned she was BRCA1 positive; not a big surprise since her mother is a survivor as well. And though she had good margins after two lumpectomies she decided upon a prophylactic bilateral …
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Zoledronic Acid Protects Bones of Women Getting Breast Cancer

19 (HealthDay News) — Zoledronic acid prevents bone loss in breast cancer patients undergoing endocrine therapy and improves bone mineral density after treatment, according to an Austrian study. Adjuvant endocrine therapy is widely used …
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Learning About Prostate Cancer Prevention

Before you can learn about prostate cancer prevention, you obviously need to be more aware of what prostate cancer is to begin with and what is involved with it. Prostate cancer is a type of cancer that begins in the prostate gland, …
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Christina Applegate Has Double Mastectomy After Breast Cancer

Applegate, age 36, just recently announced her breast cancer diagnosis, but said she was first diagnosed back in April with cancer in one breast. She had two lumpectomies, and could have been a candidate for chemotherapy, radiation, …
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Bigger belly may up smokers' lung cancer risk

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Smokers who carry more weight around their waistlines may be at greater risk of lung cancer, according to a new study.
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