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Before Prescribing Clopidogrel Should Genetic Testing Occur? Apparently Not
Jan 05, 2012
A study in the December issue of JAMA reports that despite the U.S... Read More
Reducing HPV Infection - Single-Sex Vaccination Has Best Effect
Jan 05, 2012
According to a study in PLoS Medicine, the most effective strategy to protect against human papillomavirus (HPV) is single-sex vaccination. They also found that it was preferable to vaccinate females instead of men, given that females are the sex with the highest prevaccine prevalence of HPV infection... Read More
Reducing HPV Infection - Single-Sex Vaccination Has Best Effect
Jan 05, 2012
According to a study in PLoS Medicine, the most effective strategy to protect against human papillomavirus (HPV) is single-sex vaccination. They also found that it was preferable to vaccinate females instead of men, given that females are the sex with the highest prevaccine prevalence of HPV infection... Read More
US Cancer Deaths Continue To Fall, ACS Report
Jan 05, 2012
A new report from the American Cancer Society (ACS) shows that rates of cancer deaths in the United States continue the downward trend of the last two decades... Read More
Simple Online Tool To Aid GPs In Early Ovarian Cancer Diagnosis
Jan 05, 2012
The lives of hundreds of women could be saved every year, thanks to a simple online calculator that could help GPs identify women most at risk of having ovarian cancer at a much earlier stage. Academics from The University of Nottingham and ClinRisk Ltd have developed a new QCancer algorithm using the UK QResearch database... Read More
Major Variation In Bladder Cancer Subtype Trends Highlights Need For Focused Research
Jan 05, 2012
Researchers are being urged to differentiate between two types of bladder cancer when they carry out studies, after a detailed trends analysis revealed significant differences between the main subtypes of the disease... Read More
Impaired Quality Of Life, A Warning Signal After Oesophageal Cancer Surgery
Jan 05, 2012
A new study published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology shows that most patients who survive for at least five years after oesophageal cancer surgery recover an average quality of life. However, quality of life deteriorates significantly for one in six patients to a level that remains much lower than the average population in the five years after surgery... Read More
Smaller Sibling Protein Calls The Shots In Cell Division
Jan 05, 2012
Scientists have found at least one instance when the smaller sibling gets to call the shots and cancer patients may one day benefit. The protein Chk1 has long been known to be a checkpoint in cell development: it keeps normal cells and damaged cells from dividing until their DNA has been fully replicated or repaired... Read More
Treating Liver Cancer With Antisense Oligonucleotide
Jan 05, 2012
A new study shows that it is possible to selectively target and block a particular microRNA that is important in liver cancer. The finding might offer a new therapy for this malignancy, which kills an estimated 549,000 people worldwide annually. The animal study, by researchers at The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center - Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Richard J... Read More
Researchers Discover Trigger For Breast Cancer Spread
Jan 05, 2012
Research led by Shyamal Desai, PhD, Assistant Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans, has discovered a key change in the body's defense system that increases the potential for breast cancer to spread to other parts of the body. The results, reported for the first time, are featured in the January 2012 issue of Experimental Biology and Medicine... Read More
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