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CHICAGO, May 26 (UPI) -- The increased risk of disfigurement and persistent hair loss caused by childhood cancer can cause emotional distress later in life, U.S. researchers say. First author Karen Kinahan, an advanced practice nurse at ...
May 26, 2012 at 04:28 | Source: United Press International
Based on an estimate of the morphine it would need in 2009, Burkina Faso ordered 153 grams (0.34 pound) of the drug, enough to treat the pain of eight terminal cancer patients. That year in Burkina Faso, 23,000 people died of cancer. The number ...
May 27, 2012 at 21:09 | Source: Bloomberg
Conventional cancer treatments, such as chemotherapy and radiation can cause toxic side-effects. Now, researchers have discovered that a drug called thioridazine can successfully destroy cancer stem cells in humans without these effects.
May 25, 2012 at 19:53 | Source: Medical News Today
We all know someone — family member, friend, neighbor — who has died of cancer, the second-leading cause of death in Georgia and a main cause of disability and economic hardship. It’s no coincidence that Gov. Nathan Deal’s recent visit ...
May 26, 2012 at 01:08 | Source: Atlanta Journal Constitution
Surgically removing abdominal fat from obese mice reduces their risk of ultraviolet-light induce skin cancer, say researchers. However, whether this applies to humans is still unknown. "We don't know what effect fat removal would have in humans.
May 28, 2012 at 18:59 | Source: Medical News Today
You're never too old, or too young, to be making big mistakes when it comes to protecting your skin. Case in point: Melanoma rates are up across the board, but especially among women under 40, according to a new study by the Mayo Clinic. In fact, women ...
May 27, 2012 at 11:22 | Source: ABC News
URBANA, Ill., May 26 (UPI) -- A 13-year-old Shih Tzu keeps bouncing back from prostate cancer, though he may have only six months left to him, his Illinois owners say. The little dog named Bear was first diagnosed with the disease in November ...
May 26, 2012 at 19:44 | Source: United Press International
According to the conclusions of a new study, it would appear that surviving cancer during childhood comes with a variety of ill side-effects, including disfigurement, persistent hair loss and long-term emotional distress throughout adulthood. Though each ...
May 28, 2012 at 08:15 | Source: Softpedia
HOUSTON –HER2 and its epidermal growth factor receptor cousins mobilize a specialized protein to activate a major player in cancer development and sugar metabolism, scientists report in the May 25 issue of Cell. This chain of events, the scientists found ...
May 25, 2012 at 18:48 | Source: EurekAlert
The data on PSA testing to detect prostate cancer has long been shaky — so much so that the discoverer of PSA (or prostate-specific antigen, an enzyme made by the prostate) himself decried the test two years ago as “hardly more effective ...
May 26, 2012 at 03:16 | Source: Time