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Link Between Nationality And Cervical Cancer
03.09.2008 16:12
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Gynaecological screening tests for cervical cancer have been available to all women in Sweden for almost four decades. Despite this, many immigrant women have a higher risk of developing the disease than Swedish-born women, according to a new study from the Swedish medical university Karolinska Institutet.
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IU Simon Cancer Center's Tissue Bank Collecting Samples Sept. 20 At Clarian North
03.09.2008 06:16
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Would you like to contribute to breast cancer research? You can help by donating a tissue sample to the Susan G. Komen for the Cure Tissue Bank at the IU Simon Cancer Center from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 20, at Ology Spa at the Clarian North Medical Center, 11700 North Meridian St., Carmel. A tissue sample will be taken from one breast with a needle and local anesthesia. The amount of tissue taken is about one gram (or the size of two peas).
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ProsCan For Men: Randomised Controlled Trial Of A Decision Support Intervention For Men With Localised Prostate Cancer
03.09.2008 04:14
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UroToday.com - With advances in treatment for prostate cancer and the often deleterious side-effects of treatment, newly diagnosed men are faced with difficult treatment decisions. For men with localised disease, the complexity of treatment decision-making is enhanced by the notion that some tumours are indolent in nature and therefore unlikely to ever cause clinical concern or death if left untreated.
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Potential To Prevent Recurrence Of Bladder Tumors After Surgical Removal Of Upper Urinary Tract Transitional Cell Carcinoma
03.09.2008 04:14
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UroToday.com - In this article from the International Journal of Urology, the authors evaluated the survival benefit and prevention of bladder cancer recurrence with adjuvant platinum based chemotherapy, in upper urinary tract urothelial cancer, following surgical resection. Between April 1986 and August 2005, 132 patients with upper urinary tract urothelial cancer underwent radical nephroureterectomy with bladder cuff.
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U.S. Phase 2 Combination Clinical Trial For Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer Patients With K-RAS Or EGFR-Activated Tumours
03.09.2008 04:14
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Oncolytics Biotech Inc. ("Oncolytics") (TSX:ONC, NASDAQ:ONCY) announced that following U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) review, the Company is initiating a U.S. Phase 2 clinical trial using intravenous administration of REOLYSIN(R) in combination with paclitaxel and carboplatin in patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) with K-RAS or EGFR-activated tumours. The Principal Investigator is Dr.
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Debiopharm And EPFL Sign Research Project Agreement To Identify Inhibitors Of Signalling Pathways Controlling Cell Fate For Cancer Treatment
03.09.2008 04:14
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Debiopharm Group (Debiopharm), a global independent biopharmaceutical development specialist focusing on serious medical conditions and particularly oncology, announced the signature of a research project with the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL), aimed at the identification of novel small molecules and peptides that interfere with pathways controlling cell fate specification.
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New Discovery About Growth Factor Can Be Breakthrough For Cancer Research
03.09.2008 04:14
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A research team at the Ludwig Institute and Uppsala University has discovered an entirely new signal path for a growth factor that is of crucial importance for the survival and growth of cancer cells. This discovery, published in today's issue of Nature Cell Biology, opens up an entirely new landscape for research on breast and prostate cancer, among other types. Our cells' ability to understand signals from various growth factors is critical for normal fetal development.
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