Experimental Drug Shown To Shrink Tumors In Sarcoma Patients

Experimental Drug Shown To Shrink Tumors In Sarcoma Patients

By Ansa Varughese | May 07, 2013 04:04 PM EDT

An experimental anticancer drug in a phase II clinical trial stabilized cancer in more than 60 percent of advanced alveolar soft part sarcoma patients.

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9/11 First Responders Show 15% Increased Risk of Cancer

By Susan Scutti | Apr 24, 2013 10:46 AM EDT

As time passes, the consequence of exposure to a complex mix of pollutants and carcinogens by Ground Zero rescue and recovery workers is being felt.

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1,600-Year-Old Skeleton Provides Oldest Example of Tooth-Filled Tumor

By Makini Brice | Jan 23, 2013 09:19 AM EST

A skeleton in Spain has provided archaeologists with a bizarre sight: a tumor with four teeth inside.

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Scorpion Venom Lights Up Brain Tumors, May Save Lives in Surgery

By Makini Brice | Dec 18, 2012 03:11 PM EST

Despite the improvement in cancer screening and treatment, removing brain tumors has remained a dangerous skill.

Magnets Can Cause Cancer Cells to "Self-Destruct"

By Christine Hsu | Oct 08, 2012 03:59 PM EDT

Scientists have created magnets that trigger tumors to 'self-destruct' in a breakthrough that could revolutionize cancer therapy.

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Scientists Implant Mice "Avatars" With Diseases to Help Ailing Human Patients

By Makini Brice | Sep 27, 2012 02:45 PM EDT

Michael Feeney has been battling a type of bone cancer called Ewing's sarcoma. There is a mouse with Feeney's tumor growing in its body right now, and doctors have found a cocktail of drugs to that has shrunk it.

French Study Finds Tumors in Rats Fed GM Corn

By Ben Hirschler | Sep 19, 2012 09:53 AM EDT

Rats fed a lifetime diet of Monsanto's genetically modified corn or exposed to its top-selling weedkiller Roundup suffered tumours and multiple organ damage.

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Cancer Mom Saved by Accidentally Coughing Up Entire Tumor

By Christine Hsu | Sep 14, 2012 05:02 PM EDT

A 38-year-old woman from UK coughed up a tumor a year ago and has been told that she is now free of cancer.

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For Breast Cancer Treatment, Lying on Your Stomach Is the Best Option

By Nikki Tucker | Sep 06, 2012 01:52 PM EDT

Researchers from the Cancer Institute of NYU Langone Medical Center theorize damage to the heart and lungs can be reduced by lying on your stomach rather than on your back.

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