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3 hrs ago | FOX 4 Now - WFTX Home

Chemo and forgetfulness: It's not all in your head

If you're undergoing chemotherapy and you feel more forgetful than ever, it's not all in your head.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Health, Narcolepsy

7 hrs ago | Http

Video Vault: For its 10th anniversary, 'Fight Club' gets a high-def makeover

Ten years ago this week, "Fight Club" was released to theaters. I was there on that opening weekend, sure I'd see something special, and I wasn't wrong.

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Related Topix: Comedy Movies, Thriller, Fight Club, Crime Movies, Drama Movies, Action Movies, Edward Norton, Health, Medicine, If...., Science Fiction Movies, Entertainment

12 hrs ago | WisInfo

Fox Valley doctors, patients blast breast mammogram guidelines

Guidelines released Monday by the U.S. Preventative Services Task Force saying mammograms before age 50 and breast self-exams are unnecessary is bunk, says breast cancer survivor Suzanne Payne, 61, Appleton.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Health, Breast Cancer, M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston Metro, Oncology

16 hrs ago | Wisconsin Rapids Daily Tribune

Doctors defend mammograms, self-exams

A group of local doctors say they'll still recommend mammograms and self-exams for their patients, despite new guidelines released this week by a government task force.

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Related Topix: Oncology, Medicine, Health, Breast Cancer

20 hrs ago | Newswise

Cancer-Fighting Drugs Delivered Right to the Tumor

An encapsulation breakthrough by researchers at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology may enable doctors to deliver anti-cancer drugs directly to tumors over extended periods of time, while preventing the systemic side effects of chemotherapy and other current cancer treatments.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Health

Thu Nov 19, 2009

Bioscience Technology

Kill the cancer, not the patient: New toxicity testing approach could make chemo drugs safer

For cancer patients on chemotherapy, the "cure" can be as deadly as the disease itself.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Health, Biotech, Healthcare Industry, Sacramento Metro

Medical News Today

Radiation Breakthrough Gives Breast Cancer Patients Hope In Single Dose

Main Category: Breast Cancer Also Included In: Radiology / Nuclear Medicine Article Date: 19 Nov 2009 - 3:00 PST A radiation breakthrough to treat breast cancer patients in one day, as opposed to the current average of six weeks, has arrived at Cancer Treatment Centers of America in Philadelphia.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Health, Breast Cancer, Italy, World News, Oncology, Sarcoma

Nevada Appeal

Cancer specialists: Ignore new task force

Women should continue getting regular mammograms starting at age 40, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said Wednesday, moving to douse confusion caused by a task-force recommendation two days earlier.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Health, Medicare, Breast Cancer

Sky News

Cancer Drug 'Too Expensive' For NHS

The only cancer drug shown to extend the lives of patients with an aggressive form of liver cancer has been turned down by the NHS medicines watchdog.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Health, Liver Cancer, Entertainment

Hampshire Chronicle

Liver cancer patients denied drug

People with advanced liver cancer will be denied a new drug on the NHS under draft guidance which has been published.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Health, Liver Cancer

Wed Nov 18, 2009

The Victoria Star

YM Biosciences releases positive breast cancer treatment trial results

YM BioSciences Inc. , a life sciences product development company, has released positive trial results for its breast cancer antibody treatment.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Health, Breast Cancer, Biotech, Healthcare Industry

Medical News

Data on Synta Pharmaceuticals' STA-9090 synthetic inhibitor of Hsp90 presented

Synta Pharmaceuticals Corp. , a biopharmaceutical company focused on discovering, developing, and commercializing small molecule drugs to treat severe medical conditions, today announced that preclinical data presented at the AACR-NCI-EORTC Conference on Molecular Targets and Cancer Therapeutics shows that STA-9090, a novel, synthetic inhibitor of ...

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Related Topix: Biotech, Medicine, Healthcare Industry, Pharmaceuticals, Synta Pharmaceuticals, Health, Lung Cancer, Prostate Cancer, Colorectal Health, Colon Cancer

News Courier

Griffith blasts panela s advice to delay, reduce frequency of mammograms

U.S. Rep. Parker Griffith, D-Alabama, condemned on Wednesday the panel recommending that women delay a first mammogram until age 50 and get checkup every two years rather than annually.

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Related Topix: US Politics, Representative Parker Griffith, US News, US House of Representatives, Democrat, Alabama, Oncology, Medicine

Daily Mail

The breast cancer revolution that saves women from chemo

A diagnosis of breast cancer usually means having chemotherapy to stop the cancer coming back.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Health, Breast Cancer, Travel, Austria Travel, Oncology, Osteoporosis

Physics Blog

Cancer patients and doctors report drug side effects differently

In clinical trials for cancer, it is standard for clinicians rather than patients to report adverse symptom side effects from treatments, such as nausea and fatigue.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Health, Hospital Administration, Healthcare Industry, Charitable Organizations, Oncology, Lung Cancer

Bioscience Technology

Lung cancer experts hold roundtable on new staging guide

What: The International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer will hold an expert roundtable and Web cast announcing the recent publication and impact of the IASLC's Staging Manual in Thoracic Oncology containing the recently released 7th Edition of TNM in Lung and Pleural Tumours.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Health, Lung Cancer, Oncology

Tue Nov 17, 2009

Newkerala.com

PET-CT scans may help predict response to head, neck cancer treatment

Washington, Nov 17 : A new study has revealed that use of a combination of PET-CT imaging techniques can help predict patients' response to head and neck cancer treatment.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Health

Newswise

Nanotechnology Team Discover How to Capture Tumor Cells in Bloodstream

A team led by University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences researchers on the cutting edge of nanotechnology has found a way to capture tumor cells in the bloodstream that could dramatically improve earlier cancer diagnosis and prevent deadly metastasis.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Nanotechnology, University of Arkansas Medical Sciences, Medicine, Health, Biology, Science, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR

PhysOrg Weblog

Text message reminders can encourage healthy action

People who received daily text messages reminding them to apply sunscreen were nearly twice as likely to use it as those who did not receive such messages, a new study led by a UC Davis Health System dermatologist has found.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Dermatology, Cell Phones, Cellphones, Electronics, Health, Skin Cancer

KTLA-TV Los Angeles

Randa the Rhino Battles Skin Cancer at LA Zoo

A 40-year-old rhinoceros at the Los Angeles Zoo is battling skin cancer and she's getting some cutting edge treatment in her fight.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Health, Skin Cancer, Oncology

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