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Cancer vaccine with minimal side effects nearing Phase 3 clinical trials
Dr. Thomas Wagner, founder of the biotech company Orbis Health Solutions and cancer researcher, has made it his life's mission to find a way to treat cancer without the dreaded side effects that, for some, can become worse than the cancer itself or may even lead to an earlier death. "The tragedy of cancer is not just that person, the diagnosis, but it's also the fear of the therapy," Wagner told ABC News. This can cause a range of side effects including hair loss, nausea, vomiting, or may knock out a person's immune system putting them at risk of life-threatening infections, Wagner said.
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England to roll out world's first seven-minute cancer treatment jab
Britain's state-run national health service will be the first in the world to offer an injection that treats cancer to hundreds of patients in England which could cut treatment times by up to three quarters. Following approval from the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA), NHS England
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Tumor-destroying sound waves receive FDA approval for liver treatment in humans
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved the use of sound waves to break down tumors—a technique called histotripsy—in humans for liver treatment.
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Spontaneous Smoking Cessation Before Lung Cancer Diagnosis
We have observed that many patients with lung cancer stop smoking before diagnosis, usually before clinical symptoms, and often without difficulty. This led us to speculate that spontaneous smoking cessation may be a presenting symptom of lung cancer.
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Baby Pics Can Diagnose Deadly Cancer
Like most parents, Bryan Shaw snapped unending pictures of his new son Noah. But when the baby was just a few months old, Shaw’s wife Elizabeth started to notice something odd about the pictures: in them, one of Noah’s eyes appeared milky-white instead of red.
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Cancer research of mice and men
Experiments on mice are widely used to help determine which new cancer therapies stand a good chance of working in human patients. Such studies are not perfect and, all too often, what works in a rodent produces little or no benefit in people. This has led researchers to explore the ways in which mice and men are dissimilar, in order to pick apart why the responses are different. A new study now proposes that the temperature in which lab mice are kept is one thing that does matter.
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Curry Compound Kills Cancer Cells
Scientists have found a very unusual potential cancer-fighting technique: nanoparticles that carry curry into cancer cells. Specifically the particles were filled with curcumin, a compound found in curry. The research by scientists from the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences in Austria was published in the Journal of Nanobiotechnology on Dec. 6.
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Killing cancer like the common cold
Nick Wilkins was diagnosed with leukemia when he was 4 years old, and when the cancer kept bouncing back, impervious to all the different treatments the doctors tried, his father sat him down for a talk. John Wilkins explained to Nick, who was by then 14, that doctors had tried chemotherapy, radiation, even a bone marrow transplant from his sister.
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Gene Therapy Killing Cancer
Gene therapy has just begun to set the health-world abuzz with some of its most recent successes. Patients with leukemia and other blood cancers are seeing unprecedented results with these new treatments, sending some into full remission by attacking and killing the highly fatal diseases.
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See warmhearted husband travel the world in pink tutu to cheer up cancer-stricken wife
Ballerina Bob has taken hundreds of photos of himself in a frilly tutu - all because he wants to make his poorly wife laugh
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What Bill Keller Doesn’t Get: There Is No Right Way to Die
Bill Keller’s op-ed for the New York Times about the most respectable way to die from cancer could be the subject of 100 great lessons in how not to write about human beings. Keller contrasts the case of his father-in-law, who died at age 79 with a stiff upper lip, with that of Lisa Boncheck Adams, a fortysomething mother of three with breast cancer, who has been blogging and tweeting about her treatment and experience with the disease for years.
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Surgeon general links colon cancer, diabetes to smoking
Fifty years ago, smoking was linked to cancer in the first surgeon general's report on tobacco. On Friday, Dr. Boris Lushniak, the acting surgeon general, issued the 32nd report on tobacco, saying "enough is enough." His goal: eliminating the use of cigarettes and tobacco.
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Why You Might Want to Give Up Grilled Meat
Grilling meats is an American tradition, but it’s not the healthiest thing to do. A growing body of research suggests that cooking meats over a flame is linked to cancer. Combusting wood, gas, or charcoal emits chemicals known as polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons. Exposure to these so-called PAHs is known to cause skin, liver, stomach, and several other types of cancer in lab animals.
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How Long Have I Got Left?
I always knew I’d die, without knowing when. But now I knew it acutely.
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Study finds more cancer cases related to indoor tanning than smoking
Health officials have often preached about the dangers of indoor tanning. However, a recent study may show just how detrimental the ultraviolet light exposure can be, particularly when looking at other negative habits. A recent study, in fact, suggests that indoor tanning may result in a higher number of cancer cases than smoking alone.
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Our bodies kill ‘spontaneous’ blood cancers on a daily basis
Immune cells undergo ‘spontaneous’ changes on a daily basis that could lead to cancers if not for the diligent surveillance of our immune system, Melbourne scientists have found.
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A Cancer 'tidal wave' is fast approaching...
The globe is facing a "tidal wave" of cancer, and restrictions on alcohol and sugar need to be considered, say World Health Organization scientists. It predicts the number of cancer cases will reach 24 million a year by 2035, but half could be prevented.
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Special glasses help surgeons 'see' cancer
High-tech glasses developed at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis may help surgeons visualize cancer cells, which glow blue when viewed through the eyewear.
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The French way of cancer treatment
The French healthcare was not just first rate -- it was humane. Rather than fighting with insurance, all our energy could be spent on one thing: caring for my father.
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Esophagus Transplant Gives Cancer Patient His Life Back
In an uncommon surgery, a man’s esophagus was replaced with a section of his small intestine. Now he can eat and drink normally, without depending on a feeding tube.
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