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Breast Cancer - Centre for Chronic Disease Prevention and Control Posted: 3 years ago by robfouryqr
Breast cancer is the most common cancer diagnosed among Canadian women. Despite slight declines in mortality rates over the past decade for women with breast cancer, one in nine Canadian women will develop breast cancer in her lifetime; one in 25 Canadian women will die from this disease.
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Abortion pill could fight cancer Posted: 3 years ago by 2manyusernames
A chemical used to abort pregnancy could fight breast and ovarian cancer, say scientists.
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Scientists kill cancer cells with "trojan horse" Posted: 5 months ago by kakana
Australian scientists have developed a "trojan horse" therapy to combat cancer, using a bacterially-derived nano cell to penetrate and disarm the cancer cell before a second nano cell kills it with chemotherapy drugs.
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Toenail fungus medicine may treat cancer Posted: 3 years ago by AutumnLotus
U.S. researchers say itraconazole, a drug commonly used to treat toenail fungus, can also block the growth of new blood vessels in cancer.
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Frankincense Kills Bladder Cancer Cells Posted: 9 months ago by suebe
Originating from Africa, India, and the Middle East, frankincense oil has been found to have many medicinal benefits. Now, an enriched extract of the Somalian Frankincense herb Boswellia carteri has been shown to kill off bladder cancer cells. New research demonstrates that this herb has the potential for an alternative therapy for bladder cancer. Update to an much earlier story about natural remedies
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Christina Applegate has breast cancer Posted: 1 year ago by ImNotBlue
Actress played ditzy teenager Kelly Bundy on Fox's 'Married...with Children'
"Christina Applegate was diagnosed with an early form of breast cancer. Benefiting from early detection through a doctor ordered MRI, the cancer is not life threatening. Christina is following the recommended treatment of her doctors and will have a full recovery."
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10-Year-Old Girl Battles Rare Breast Cancer Posted: 6 months ago by AutumnLotus
For many of the estimated 180,000 women whose doctors will tell them they have breast cancer this year, the diagnosis will no doubt come as a shock. But for the parents of 10-year-old Hannah Powell-Auslam of Fullerton, Calif., who learned in early April that their daughter had breast cancer, the news was particularly hard to swallow.
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First genes spotted for testicular cancer Posted: 6 months ago by AutumnLotus
Scientists in Britain say they have found the first genes that are associated with testicular cancer, the commonest form of cancer for men between the ages of 15 and 45.
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"Doctors Missed My Ovarian Cancer 20 Times" Posted: 9 months ago by 2manyusernames
Sue Edwards went to her doctor over 20 times complaining of symptoms. Each time she'd be told it was caused by a sinus bug and/or her weight. Instead she had ovarian cancer. The problem isn't that the doctors are incompetent but that even today this cancer is often misdiagnosed although usually because the physician it to busy or can't justify the expenditure to pay for a quick blood test or pelvic examination that could save a woman's life.
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'Personalised' cancer drug test Posted: 3 years ago by robfouryqr
A gene test that predicts which cancer drugs will be most effective for different people is to be trialled in the US.
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Give cancer vaccine to poor too: Fraser Posted: 3 years ago by AutumnLotus
The man who helped develop a vaccine for cervical cancer is urging drug companies to keep their word and ensure women in the Third World can get the drug at a fair price.
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Cancer To Be World's Top Killer By 2010, WHO Says Posted: 12 months ago by cactushair
Cancer will overtake heart disease as the world's top killer by 2010, part of a trend that should more than double global cancer cases and deaths by 2030, international health experts said in a report released Tuesday.
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Obesity Nears Smoking As Cause Of Cancer Posted: 2 years ago by dollyllama
James says that, as obesity rates soar, the list of cancers associated with those extra pounds is growing: "Breast cancer, particularly post-menopausal breast cancer, cancer of the large bowel, and cancer of the pancreas, those are the three big ones.
In other news: Hot Dogs, beer and nachos banned from sporting events. (Well, you can't smoke there either).
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First Lady has skin cancer removed. Posted: 3 years ago by tomphoolry
Laura Bush has malignant tumor removed in November.
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Abandoned cancer patient mauled by hungry puppies. Posted: 1 year ago by muppet
Washington authorities are looking to charge a cancer patient's caregivers after the man was left alone in his house for days and mauled by hungry puppies.
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Device Can Spot Cancer Cells In Blood Posted: 2 years ago by 2manyusernames
A highly sensitive microchip may help doctors detect rare traces of cancer circulating in the bloodstream.The device can isolate, count and analyze circulating tumor cells from a blood sample. These circulating tumor cells, or CTCs, are the tiniest fragments of tumors, which are carried in the blood.
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Noah Biorkman, 5-year old with cancer passed away Posted: 6 days ago by 2manyusernames
Monday, Noah lost his battle with cancer. Noah is the kid whose parents asked people to send him cards as he was dying.
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Scientists find chemical key that 'could stop cancer in its tracks' Posted: 2 years ago by AutumnLotus
British scientists have unlocked one of the secrets behind how cancer spreads around the body. The breakthrough could help pave the way for a generation of drugs that would halt up to 90 per cent of cancers in their tracks. Such drugs could be particularly effective against breast and lung tumours - two of the biggest killers.
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Cancer can evolve to a contageous disease Posted: 1 year ago by bernardblack
Under ordinary circumstances, cancer is an individuated phenomenon. Its onset is determined partly by genetics, partly by environment, partly by entropy, partly by the remorseless tick-tock of time.
That is now always the case however
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Glowing plaster that destroys skin cancer by zapping it with light unveiled Posted: 7 months ago by AutumnLotus
A glowing plaster that can patch up wounds AND destroy skin cancer cells by zapping them with light, has been unveiled by British scientists.
The strip of bendy plastic is embedded with light-emitting diodes that blast a high-powered of beam of red light onto tumours.
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