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For older men, robot-assisted prostate cancer surgery as safe as but more expensive than open surgery
May 21, 2014
Minimally invasive robot-assisted surgery, which has become the main choice for surgically removing cancerous prostate glands during recent years, is as safe as open surgery for Medicare patients... Read More
Promising drug therapies identified for idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis
May 21, 2014
Researchers in separate clinical trials found two drugs slow the progression of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, a fatal lung disease with no effective treatment or cure, and for which there is... Read More
Two thirds of healthy American adults 'infected with HPV,' study suggests
May 21, 2014
Research led by the NYU Langone Medical Center in New York suggests that around two thirds of Americans are infected with one or more of 109 human papillomavirus (HPV) strains. Read More
New approach for sampling gut bacteria to illuminate bacteria's role in disease
May 21, 2014
Scientists at Forsyth, Massachusetts General Hospital and the Harvard School of Public Health have developed a new protocol for collecting saliva and stool samples for genomic and transcriptomic... Read More
New data for Gilotrif® shows a significant improvement in overall survival in lung cancer patients whose tumors have the most common EGFR mutation
May 20, 2014
Boehringer Ingelheim has announced new overall survival data of two Phase III clinical trials (LUX-Lung 3 and LUX-Lung 6). Read More
Wide variation in lung cancer rates globally
May 20, 2014
The only recent comprehensive analysis of lung cancer rates for women around the world finds lung cancer rates are dropping in young women in many regions of the globe, pointing to the success of... Read More
Ultra-sensitive nano-chip capable of detecting cancer at early stages
May 20, 2014
Today, the majority of cancers are detected on the macroscopic level, when the tumor is already composed of millions of cancer cells and the disease is starting to advance into a more mature phase. Read More
Destroying brain tumors using herpes-loaded stem cells
May 20, 2014
Harvard Stem Cell Institute (HSCI) scientists at Massachusetts General Hospital have a potential solution for how to more effectively kill tumor cells using cancer-killing viruses. Read More
Distress during breast cancer treatment reduced by cognitive behavioral or relaxation training
May 20, 2014
Can psychological intervention help women adapt to the stresses of breast cancer? Read More
Important findings presented by Mount Sinai at the 2014 American Urological Association Meeting
May 20, 2014
Immune response to prostate-specific antigen, live birth rate adversely affected by increasing paternal age, comparison of treatment modalities for benign prostatic hyperplasia, understanding... Read More
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