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Study: Tamoxifen not likely to prevent many breast cancers in at-risk women Research has shown that the drug tamoxifen citrate not only helps prevent recurrence of breast cancer, but it also can keep the deadly disease from occurring in the first place in some women. But a new University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill study indicates it's unlikely that tamoxifen will ever be given widely to

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New hope for patients suffering hormone therapy resitant prostate cancer New hope was offered today to men with advanced prostate cancer that no longer responds to hormone therapy - a persistent problem in prostate cancer treatment. In recent years it has been suggested that vitamins A and D might have some therapeutic effect in hormonerefractory prostate cancer. [Cancer - Topix.net]

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Research And Markets: An Extensive Analysis of Future Perspectives in Cancer Immunotherapy Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/) has announced the addition of Future Perspectives in Cancer Immunotherapy to their offering. [Cancer - Topix.net] Look into Bus of Med resources

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CombinatoRx collaborates with brain cancer foundation CombinatoRx Inc., a privately held pharmaceutical company, has launched a research collaboration with Accelerate Brain Cancer Cure (ABC2), a non-profit foundation dedicated to accelerating therapies leading to ... [Cancer - Topix.net]

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Chemotherapy May Improve Ovarian Cancer Odds Adding a course of chemotherapy after surgery may improve survival and reduce the risks of recurrence for women with ovarian cancer that's caught in the early stages, a new study shows. [Cancer - Topix.net] The results of the study appear in the Nov. 1 issue of the journal Cancer.

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Turmeric treatments Although rates of blood cancer have been rising steadily for the past 50 years, its incidence in Asia is much lower than in the West. Professor Moolky Nagabhushan, of the Loyola University Medical Centre in Chicago has suggested that this could be, in part, due to turmeric. [cancer]

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Smoking twice as bad for women than for men Currently, lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer death among men and women in the United States... click link for more info. [cancer]

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Study finds chemotherapy helps women with localized ovarian cancer A new study finds chemotherapy improves survival and reduces the risk of recurrence in women with stage I ovarian cancer (cancer that has not spread beyond the ovary). But it remains unclear which patients would most benefit from adjuvant chemotherapy and what the optimal treatment regimen would entail. The findings come from an

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Prostate cancer treatment leads to impairments Treatment for prostate cancer leads to significant five-year declines in sexual and urinary function, according to a new study. These findings come from the first prospective comparative study examining differences between normal aging and the effects of prostate cancer treatment, published in the November 1, 2004 issue of CANCER. [Cancer -

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Breast cancer and melanoma link suspected Women with breast cancer may be at increased risk of malignant melanoma and vice versa according to new research. A study published this week in the International Journal of Cancer examined whether compared the expected number of cases for each disease to the observed number of cases in female breast cancer survivors. [Medical News Today]

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Careful supplementation may reduce chemotherapy side-effects Breast cancer patients who take a multivitamin or supplement with vitamin E experience a smaller decrease in important immune cells, a common side effect of chemotherapy, new research suggests. [Cancer - Topix.net] Cancer

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For Elderly, Mediterranean Diet Adds Up A new study shows that elderly people who stick to a Mediterranean diet, exercise at least 30 minutes a day, and have moderate alcohol use can cut their risk of dying in half. The diet is rich in plant foods and fish, low in meat and dairy and has a high ratio of monounsaturated fats to polyunsaturated fats. Approximately 1,500 people were studied in the

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Cannabis may help combat cancer-causing herpes viruses The compound in marijuana that produces a high, delta-9 tetrahydrocannbinol or THC, may block the spread of several forms of cancer causing herpes viruses, University of South Florida College of Medicine scientists report. scienceblog.com - Sep 22 2004 20:54:46 GMT [All Headline News - News and Headlines] Sept. 15 in the online journal BMC

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Arnold Palmer, Golf Legend and Prostate Cancer Survivor, Speaks Out... In the time it takes to play a round of golf, 18 men will lose their lives to prostate cancer. [Cancer - Topix.net] patient story

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Cancer: An inflammatory link The NF-[kappa]B protein is a key player in inflammation. It now seems that it might also activate signalling pathways, in both cancer cells and tumour-associated inflammatory cells, that promote malignancy. [Nature] Nature

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Mediterranean Diet Prevents Disease NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Consumption of a Mediterranean-style diet appears to prevent metabolic syndrome and improve survival, according to the findings from two studies that appear in the Journal of the American Medical Association. [Reuters: Health]

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Prostate cancer: living with the emotional and psychological side effects If you are male and over the age of 65 you are at risk of developing prostate cancer (men in their fifties are also at risk)... click link for more info. [Medical News Today]

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Acupuncture reduces nausea and vomiting, pain after major breast surgery In the first such clinical trial of its kind, researchers at Duke University Medical Center have found that acupuncture is more effective at reducing nausea and vomiting after major breast surgery than the leading medication... click link for more info. [Medical News Today] Sept. 22, 2004, in the journal Anesthesia and

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National Cancer Institute Expands National Faith-based Health... As part of its ongoing commitment to reduce cancer health disparities, the National Cancer Institute (NCI), one of the National Institutes of Health, has announced the expansion of a faith-based initiative to ... NCI is now offering African American churches a new, comprehensive program guide and training materials to help them

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Researchers Develop Fast Track Way To Discover How Cells Are Regulated Researchers at Huntsman Cancer Institute (HCI) at the University of Utah and a collaborator at the University of California at Santa Cruz report they have developed a unique computational approach to investigate a regulatory network for gene expression that is implicated in cell growth and development. [feedsfarm.com Search:

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Obesity Raises Breast Cancer Death Risks Women who are obese at the time their breast cancer is diagnosed may be as much as five times more likely to die of the disease, even when it's caught in the early stages. My.webmd.com - Sep 22 2004 13:25:28 GMT [All Headline News - News and Headlines] September issue of the Archives of Surger

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Health experts define menstrual cycle as critical indicator of women's overall health Leading women's health advocates met today at a scientific forum titled, "The Menstrual Cycle is a Vital Sign," held at the New York Academy of Sciences... click link for more info. [Medical News Today]

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The World's Healthiest Foods List Among the thousands of different foods our world provides, the majority contain at least several of the nutrients our bodies need but to be included as one of the World's Healthiest Foods they had to meet the criteria listed below... click link for more info. [Medical News Today] http://www.whfoods.com/foodstoc.php

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How safe are medicinal herbs? Find out Should you drink Korean ginseng tea if you're taking medicine for high blood pressure? Will eating nopales (prickly pear cactus) help or harm your diabetes treatment? Researchers with the University of Texas at El Paso/UT Austin Cooperative Pharmacy Program are providing patients and medical providers answers to these kinds of questions with its Herbal

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Study: Cancer risk from smoky bars much greater than polluted outdoors Telegram.com - Sep 20 2004 20:20:23 GMT [All Headline News - News and Headlines]

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