A new clinical guideline from the American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) provides recommendations on the use of radiation therapy
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Antibiotic use linked to heightened bowel cancer risk: But lower rectal cancer risk, suggesting differences in microbiome activity
Antibiotic use (pills/capsules) is linked to a heightened risk of bowel (colon) cancer, but a lower risk of rectal cancer,
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Treating dogs with human breast cancer drug: Dogs with lung cancer may get gene-directed treatment with the same drug used to combat a type of human breast cancer
Despite those velvet paintings of poker-playing dogs smoking pipes, cigars and cigarettes, our canine friends really don’t use tobacco. But
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New ‘liquid biopsy’ blood test improves breast cancer diagnostics: Test could help avoid unnecessary surgeries; enable physicians to continuously monitor cancer
A new type of blood test for breast cancer could help avoid thousands of unnecessary surgeries and otherwise precisely monitor
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Endometrial diseases can be imitated in a lab dish
Biomedical researchers at KU Leuven have found a new way to study endometrial diseases such as endometriosis and cancer. They
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Cancer cell’s ‘self eating’ tactic may be its weakness
Cancer cells use a bizarre strategy to reproduce in a tumor’s low-energy environment; they mutilate their own mitochondria! Researchers at
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Newly defined cancer driver is fast, furious and loud: Researchers characterize 3 ways in which the gene FOXA1 mutates to trigger prostate cancer
The Fast and the Furious movie franchise meets the Fast N’ Loud television series to define an oncogene that drives
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Early contact with needle-exchange program reduces hepatitis C infection
People who inject drugs and who are female, homeless or amphetamine users often share needles and syringes, and consequently run
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Cancer-fighting combination targets glioblastoma
Researchers have paired a specialized diet and a tumor-fighting drug and found the non-toxic combination helps to destroy the two
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New study estimates preventable cancer burden linked to poor diet in the US
A new modeling study estimates the number, proportion, and type of specific cancers associated with the under or overconsumption of
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