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According to the American Brain Tumor Association, just over 24,000 patients will be diagnosed with a primary malignant brain tumour during 2012 in the US alone. Some 80% of primary malignant brain...
Cervical cancer is a malignant neoplasm of the cervix uteri or cervical area. Symptoms include vaginal bleeding, but may not present until later stages of the cancer. Cervical cancer can be treated...
Ovarian cancer is cancer that starts in the female reproductive organs, the ovaries. It is the fifth most common cancer among women. Women at risk of Ovarian cancer are those who have had fe...
Lung cancer is the uncontrolled cell growth in tissues of the lung. Originating in the lungs, this growth may invade adjacent tissues and infiltrate beyond the lungs. Lung cancer, the most common ca...
Cancer (malignant neoplasm) is a class of disease. There are malignancy properties that cancer cells have; 1. The diseased tissue grows uncontrollably, ignoring growth arrest signals, ...
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Duke epigenetic analysis of stomach cancer finds new disease subtypes
Researchers at the Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School in Singapore have identified numerous new subtypes of gastric cancer that are triggered by environmental factors. The researchers used 240 primary t...
Duke researchers describe how breast cancer cells acquire drug resistance
(Duke University Medical Center) A seven-year quest to understand how breast cancer cells resist treatment with the targeted therapy lapatinib has revealed a previously unknown molecular network that...
Duke study finds growth factor aids stem cell regeneration after radiation damage
Epidermal growth factor has been found to speed the recovery of blood-making stem cells after exposure to radiation, according to researchers from Duke Medicine (home of the Duke Cancer Institute). Th...
Cancer research yields unexpected new way to produce nylon
(Duke University Medical Center) In their quest for a cancer cure, researchers at the Duke Cancer Institute made a serendipitous discovery -- a molecule necessary for cheaper and greener ways to prod...
Blood test could guide treatment for kidney cancer
(Duke University Medical Center) A common enzyme that is easily detected in blood may predict how well patients with advanced kidney cancer will respond to a specific treatment, according to doctors a...
Duke Medicine news -- Genome sequencing of Burkitt Lymphoma reveals unique mutation
(Duke University Medical Center) In the first broad genetic landscape mapped of a Burkitt lymphoma tumor, scientists at Duke Medicine and their collaborators identified 70 mutations, including several...
5 genetic variations increase risk of ovarian cancer
(Duke University Medical Center) An international research collaboration has found five new regions of the human genome that are linked to increased risks for developing ovarian cancer. Duke Medicine...
Duke Cancer Institute study finds blood test could guide treatment for kidney cancer
A common enzyme that is easily detected in blood may predict how well patients with advanced kidney cancer will respond to a specific treatment, according to doctors at Duke Cancer Institute. The find...
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Duke scandal highlights need for genomics research criteria.
Prostate cancer: Making the switch from LHRH antagonist to LHRH agonist.
C-REACTIVE PROTEIN AS A PROGNOSTIC MARKER FOR mCRPC.
Physical health disparities and mental illness: the scandal of premature mortality.
A 20-year mortality gap for men, and 15 years for women, is still experienced by people with mental illness in high-income countries. The combination of lifestyle risk factors, higher rates of unnatur...
