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View Post: Obesity linked to specific cancers
4 Nov 2009
"The list of cancers affected by obesity will almost certainly increase as more research is completed," says Michael Thun, emeritus vice president of epidemiological research at the American Cancer Society. ...
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View Post: Even Small HER2-positive Breast Cancers Have a Higher Risk of ...
5 Nov 2009 by mjames  
Among women with small, node-negative breast cancers, those with tumors that are HER2-positive have a higher risk of cancer recurrence. This suggests that consideration of HER2-targeted therapy such as Herceptin® (trastuzumab) may be ...
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View Post: Help fight men's cancers by sponsoring my mustache (seriously ...
5 Nov 2009 by Jim J  
I have joined a global movement that is bringing much needed attention to cancers that affect men. I'm doing this by growing a mustache this “Movember”, the month formerly known as November. The funds raised go to the Prostate Cancer ...
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View Post: Cancer's culprit :The Scientist [1st April 2009]
21 Apr 2009 by Elie Dolgin  
By Elie Dolgin Breast cancer's genetic profile calls the cancer stem cell hypothesis into question. The Literature Scientist to watch 59-1 jpg 300 182. Courtesy of Kornelia Polyak Breast cancer stem-like cells ...
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View Post: 3quarksdaily
27 Oct 2009 by Azra Raza  
Cancer Call it the arrow of cancer. Like the arrow of time, it was supposed to point in one direction. Cancers grew and worsened. But as a paper in The Journal of the American Medical Association noted last week, data from more than two ...
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