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** BREAST CANCER News **
44-County Study Of Breast Cancer In Black Women Launched By UNC Lineberger
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/127637.php
A new study seeking to improve scientists' understanding of breast cancer, including why the disease's fatality rate is higher in African-American women, is getting underway in 44 counties in North Carolina.
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** CANCER / ONCOLOGY News **
Landmark 15-Year Study Of UCLA Kidney Cancer Patients Shows Aggressive, Personalized Therapy Improves Survival
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/127785.php
A study of nearly 1,500 patients treated for kidney cancer at UCLA in the last 15 years shows that an aggressive, tailored treatment approach results in better survival rates and uncovered subsets of kidney cancer that behave differently and need to be treated accordingly.
Cells With Extra Chromosomes Share Detrimental Traits That Might Help Develop Cancer Treatments
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/127782.php
Mammalian cells with extra chromosomes share some common traits that could be exploited to develop cancer treatments, according to MIT biologists. Having too many chromosomes, a condition known as aneuploidy, wreaks havoc on an organism, usually resulting in birth defects or death.
Robot Assisted Radical Cystectomy: Is It Ready For Prime Time?
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/127768.php
MONTEREY, CA, USA (UroToday.com) - A State-of-the-Art lecture by Erik Castle addressed the question of whether robotic cystectomy was ready for "prime time." Prime time was defined as an operation that is equivalent to open surgery, reasonable, reproducible, and teachable.
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** CERVICAL CANCER / HPV VACCINE News **
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** COLORECTAL CANCER News **
Sibling Study Could Lead To Better Treatments For Inherited Form Of Colon Cancer - Huntsman Cancer Institute
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/127774.php
Researchers at Huntsman Cancer Institute (HCI) believe they may be one step closer to understanding how certain forms of colon cancer develop. In a study using siblings who have been diagnosed with colon cancer, scientists discovered similarities on a region of a particular chromosome, referred to as 7q31.
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** LUNG CANCER News **
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** LYMPHOMA / LEUKEMIA News **
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** PROSTATE / PROSTATE CANCER News **
Saturation Biopsies On Autopsied Prostates For Detecting And Characterizing Prostate Cancer
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/127779.php
UroToday.com - This paper reports the results of a saturation biopsy protocol of 36 cores performed on 48 autopsied prostates from deceased men without any past history of prostate cancer. The first 18 cores were taken in the mid peripheral zone (6 cores), the lateral peripheral zone (6 cores) and the central zone (6 cores).
Randomized Phase II Trial Evaluation Of Erectile Function After Attempted Unilateral Cavernous Nerve-Sparing Retropubic Radical Prostatectomy
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/127778.php
UroToday.com - In 1999, Kim et al. from Baylor College of Medicine reported promising potency results from bilateral interposition of sural nerve grafts after bilateral non nerve sparing radical prostatectomy (RP).
Early Versus Delayed Endocrine Treatment Of T2-T3 PN1-3 M0 Prostate Cancer Without Local Treatment Of The Primary Tumour
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/127777.php
UroToday.com - Protocol 30846 of the EORTC-GU Group recruited 234 patients with histologically proven lymph node positive disease (pN1-3) according to the TNM classification of 1992. This included regional but not para-aortic lymph node disease.
Targeted Therapies In Prostate And Renal Cancers
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/127770.php
MONTEREY, CA, USA (UroToday.com) - In this session, Christopher P. Evans presented a State-of-the-Art lecture on molecular targets in prostate and renal cancers. Molecular targets in cancer diagnosis and therapy have come to the fore of the oncology field in the last decade.
Genomic Biomarkers For Risk Stratification In Prostate Cancer
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/127766.php
MONTEREY, CA, USA (UroToday.com) - In his State-of-the-Art talk, Colin Collins discussed biomarkers for prostate cancer (CaP) risk stratification. He asked where genome copy number profiles can predict CaP recurrences.
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