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6-month follow-up diagnostic mammograms recommended for women with probably benign lesions
Skin flaps deliver cancer-fighting therapy, ASPS study reveals
Breast cancer tumors grow faster in younger women
Researchers find gene location that gives rise to neuroblastoma, an aggressive childhood cancer
Immune system pathway identified to fight allergens, asthma
St. Jude finds 'dancing' hair cells are key to humans' acute hearing
Date: Thu, May 08
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Radiologists can, with confidence, recommend a six-month follow-up diagnostic mammogram rather than an immediate biopsy for patients with "probably benign" breast lesions, a new study emphasizes....
[more]Skin flaps deliver cancer-fighting therapy, ASPS study reveals
Date: Thu, May 08
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Using gene therapy, plastic surgeons have delivered cancer fighting proteins through skin flaps placed on cancerous tumors on rats with a 79 percent reduction in tumor volume, according to a study in the May issue of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, t...
[more]Breast cancer tumors grow faster in younger women
Date: Wed, May 07
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A new approach to estimating tumor growth based on breast screening results from almost 400,000 women is published today BioMed Central's open access journal, Breast Cancer Research. This new model can also estimate the proportion of breast cancers whic...
[more]Researchers find gene location that gives rise to neuroblastoma, an aggressive childhood cancer
Date: Wed, May 07
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Using advanced gene-hunting technology, an international team of researchers has for the first time identified a chromosome region that is the source of genetic events that give rise to neuroblastoma, an often fatal childhood cancer. The investigators fo...
[more]Immune system pathway identified to fight allergens, asthma
Date: Wed, May 07
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For the first time, researchers from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine have identified genetic components of dendritic cells that are key to asthma and allergy-related immune response malfunction. Targeting these elements could result in mo...
[more]St. Jude finds 'dancing' hair cells are key to humans' acute hearing
Date: Wed, May 07
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St. Jude Children's Research Hospital investigators have found that an electrically powered amplification mechanism in the cochlea of the ear is critical to the acute hearing of humans and other mammals. The findings will enable better understanding of h...
[more]6-month follow-up diagnostic mammograms recommended for women with probably benign lesions
Radiologists can, with confidence, recommend a six-month follow-up diagnostic mammogram rather than an immediate biopsy for patients with "probably ...
May 08, 2008
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