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Michael2901
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http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/202749.php
"Turmeric Could Provide Recipe For Fight Against Cancer Main Category: Cancer / Oncology Article Date: 29 Sep 2010 - 1:00 PDT Scientists at the University of Leicester, funded by Hope Against Cancer, are pioneering the use of a common curry cooking ingredient to target cancer cells. .." |
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http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/202897.php
"Article Date: 29 Sep 2010 - 6:00 PDT Exercise Reduces Risk Of Developing Womb Cancer Women who exercise and keep active are around 30 per cent less likely to develop womb cancer than couch potatoes - according to a new study published in the British Journal of Cancer today..." |
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http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/202938.php
"Article Date: 30 Sep 2010 - 2:00 PDT Compound Discovered In Florida Keys Shows Early Promise As Colon Cancer Treatment A chemical compound made from a type of bacteria discovered in the Florida Keys by a University of Florida pharmacy researcher has shown effectiveness in fighting colon cancer in preclinical experiments. .." |
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http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/203005.php
"Article Date: 30 Sep 2010 - 4:00 PDT Women With Both Triple Negative Breast Cancer And BRCA Mutations Have Lower Risk Of Recurrence Patients with triple negative breast cancer that also have mutations in the BRCA gene appear to have a lower risk of recurrence, compared to those with the same disease without the deleterious genetic mutation, according to researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center..." |
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http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/203084.php
"Article Date: 01 Oct 2010 - 1:00 PDT Researchers Discover Way To Overcome Radiation Resistance In Leukemia A team of researchers lead by Fatih M. Uckun, MD, PhD, of The Saban Research Institute of Childrens Hospital Los Angeles has determined that radiation resistance in leukemia can be overcome by selectively attacking a molecular target known as SYK tyrosine kinase..." |
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http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/203115.php
"Article Date: 01 Oct 2010 - 2:00 PDT Key Leukemia Defense Mechanism Discovered Virginia Commonwealth University Massey Cancer Center researcher Steven Grant, M.D., and a team of VCU Massey researchers have uncovered the mechanism by which leukemia cells trigger a protective response when exposed to a class of cancer-killing agents known as histone deacetylase inhibitors (HDACIs). The findings, published in the Journal of Biological Chemistry, could lead to more effective treatments in patients with leukemia and other cancers of the blood..." |
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http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/203374.php
"Article Date: 04 Oct 2010 - 4:00 PDT A Tunable, Cloaked, System To Kill Tumors From Inside Researchers led by University of Massachusetts Amherst chemist Vincent Rotello have demonstrated that they can deliver a dormant toxin into a specific site such as a tumor for anti-cancer therapy, then chemically trigger the toxin to de-cloak and attack from within. It holds promise as a "complex and sophisticated" synthetic, therapeutic drug delivery system for living cells..." |
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http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/203451.php
"Article Date: 05 Oct 2010 - 0:00 PDT Researchers Identify First Ever Treatment Effective Against Terminal Cancer In Animals For the first time ever, researchers have discovered a therapy that can effectively treat the now invariably lethal, terminal stages of cancer in animals. The study appears in the latest issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences..." |
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http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/203501.php
"Article Date: 05 Oct 2010 - 4:00 PDT Reports Find Disparities Of Care Based On Insurance Coverage, Race Coverage and race can mean better or worse care for cancer patients, a series of studies has found. "The reports, documenting financial and racial factors that impact diagnosis, treatment and survival, were scheduled for presentation this weekend at a meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research in Miami..." |
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http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/203641.php
"Article Date: 06 Oct 2010 - 4:00 PDT Immunocore Announces Clinical Trials Of New Treatment For Advanced Melanoma In UK And USA Researchers at Immunocore Limited announced that IMCgp100, a targeted therapeutic for the treatment of advanced metastatic melanoma, has received regulatory and ethics approval and has opened enrolment for clinical trials in the UK and USA. IMCgp100 is the first clinical candidate originating from Immunocore's innovative ImmTAC technology platform and a new treatment could benefit many thousands of patients diagnosed with skin cancer each year..." |
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