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Open dialogue between HCPs and breast cancer patients can improve experience
Apr 01, 2014
The majority of patients diagnosed with advanced breast cancer feel that their health care providers include them in most treatment decisions, according to the results of a global survey reported at the 9th European Breast Cancer Conference. Read More
The incidence and impact of stent thrombosis during PCI reduced by anti-clotting agent
Apr 01, 2014
A new angiographic analysis of the CHAMPION PHOENIX trial examined the incidence and impact of stent thrombosis (ST) in patients undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI). Results of the study were released and presented at the American College of Cardiology 63rd Annual Scientific Session. Read More
Organic food does not reduce women's risk of cancer
Mar 31, 2014
Women who mostly or always eat organic foods have the same overall chance of developing cancer as women who never eat it, according to a new study from the UK's University of Oxford and published in the British Journal of Cancer that followed over 600,000 middle-aged women for nearly a decade. Read More
Genetic mutations warn of skin cancer risk: New high-risk cancer causing mutation identified for melanoma development
Mar 31, 2014
Researchers have discovered that mutations in a specific gene are responsible for a hereditary form of melanoma.Every year in the UK, almost 12,000 people are diagnosed with melanoma, a form of skin cancer. About 1 in 20 people with melanoma have a strong family history of the disease. Read More
Queen's University discovery signals new treatment for women at high risk of breast and ovarian cancer
Mar 31, 2014
Cancer researchers at Queen's University Belfast have made a breakthrough which could signal new treatments for women at high risk of breast and ovarian cancer.Currently around one in 1,000 women in the UK carry what is known as a BRCA1 mutation - the same condition that prompted well-known actress Angelina Jolie to undergo a double mastectomy. Read More
Novel study into breast cancer origins paves way for personalised treatment
Mar 31, 2014
Breast cancers can look and behave very differently. Understanding why and how they do so is key to designing more tailored therapies for patients and sparing them unnecessary treatments.In a new study published by the Journal of Pathology, Dr Matt Smalley from Cardiff University treads new ground in exploring what drives breast cancers to look and behave so differently from one another. Read More
Blood Clot Alliance asks Congress for $4 million to save 100,000 lives a year
Mar 31, 2014
The National Blood Clot Alliance (NBCA) is calling on Congress for $4 million in each of the next five years to support better awareness and avoidance of blood clots. Read More
New finding could lead to more accurate breast cancer prognosis
Mar 31, 2014
The stiffening of breast tissue in breast-cancer development points to a new way to distinguish a type of breast cancer with a poor prognosis from a related, but often less deadly type, UC San Francisco researchers have found in a new study. Read More
Discovery signals new treatment for those at high risk of breast and ovarian cancer
Mar 31, 2014
Cancer researchers at Queen's University Belfast have made a breakthrough which could signal new treatments for women at high risk of breast and ovarian cancer.Currently around one in 1,000 women in the UK carry what is known as a BRCA1 mutation - the same condition that prompted well-known actress Angelina Jolie to undergo a double mastectomy. Read More
New diagnostic test for bowel diseases
Mar 31, 2014
A novel method for distinguishing different types of bowel disease using the stool samples of patients has been created by a group of researchers in the UK.It works by analysing the chemical compounds emitted from the samples and could provide cheaper, quicker and more accurate diagnoses, at the point of care, for a group of diseases that have, up until now, been very hard to distinguish. Read More
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