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Animals can give us a second chance at life

...injected into their brains who have come down with malignant cancers,” says Fano, who is Executive Director of the Campaign for Responsible Transplantation in New York. But no research has been done to show a link, and scientists are expanding their research. Pig cells are now being studied for strokes, epile...

The Effectiveness Of Screening Tests Questioned

...suggests the technique is ineffective because most malignant lumps are found during activities of daily living, such as washing or dressing, anyway. Regular self-exams just lead to unnecessary surgical biopsies and greater anxiety among women. Specialists believe the same results would apply to testicular self...

New Way to Detect Spread of Skin Cancer

...ancers within eight years. Of the 21 patients with malignant melanoma, 13 later had their cancers spread and ei...lts of the study show the lymphatic density around malignant melanomas was more than twice as great in patients who subsequently developed metastasis, cancers in...

Life After Testicular Cancer

...ty. With the new technique, doctors can remove the malignant tumor and still preserve and treat the remaining testicle. To prevent doing the severe procedure unnecessarily, researchers combined two common surgical methods. Researchers say , "They wondered, 'Why can't we use needles to find these tiny tumors ...

New Technique For Benign Breast Tumors

... that 1 percent to 2 percent chance that it can be malignant hence people don't want to take that risk. In the past, doctors had to perform invasive surgery to remove the lump. But now, they can freeze it with a procedure called cryoablation. Doctors insert a probe into the tumor. Argon gas is passed through ...

Urine Test for Kidney Cancer

...t to 90 percent of kidney masses that appear to be malignant on CAT scans or MRI are, which means that 10 perce...tely, you can't distinguish between those that are malignant and those that aren't," says Robert Uzzo, M.D., an urological oncologist at Fox Chase Cancer Center ...

Dogs Can Sense Bladder Cancer

...ally sensitive noses, // dogs can smell odors from malignant tumors in urine samples. Six dogs of varying breeds and ages were trained over seven months to discriminate between urine from patients with bladder cancer and that from a control group. Each dog was then given samples of urine from six control gro...

Skin Allergies Found To Increase The Risk Of Leukemia

...ility of the immune system to detect and eliminate malignant cells. Researchers say they found no link between later cancers and other allergic conditions, such as hay fever. However, since results did trend toward a higher leukemia risk among those with asthma. Thus researchers urge people to consider these ...

Another Cause of Thyroid Cancer Discovered

...e changes or mutations transform normal cells into malignant cells. A recent study has uncovered a novel gene ...s in BRAF signaling normal cells to transform into malignant cells. This is a new discovery of cause for patients with thyroid tumors. Researchers conclude sayi...

Chemical found in plants may be the treatment for leukemia

...od cancer research. Past studies have found that malignant stem cells are the root of setting, growth and continuation of the disease leukemia. The current study says that the chemical parthenolide, affects only the stem cells and no other healthy blood cells. Hence the researchers are of the opinion that ...

To Reduce Risk Of Cancer Eat Grapes

...e enzyme that is secreted more than 300 times by a malignant cell than a normal cell. Researchers are of the opinion that further studies will be able to confirm the correct dosage for taking grapes for their therapeutic value....

Aspirin may reduce he risk of colon cancer

...rectal happens when there is growth of abnormal or malignant cells within the lining of colon or rectum. Researchers had studied 830 patients with stage III colon cancer who were prescribed post-operative adjuvant chemotherapy. Consistent aspirin use was reported by 8.7% of the patients while 4.3% took regula...

Birth weight and breast feeding associated with breast cancer

...y later be expressed as tendency of development of malignant tumors in the breast. The researchers had studied biological details of 845 women with breast cancer and 1573 women as controls. Their results have showed that pre-menopausal women whose birth weights were more than 8.5 pounds, and those who have no...

Oral cancer screenings to reduce the mortality rates

...ral cancer patients. Oral cancer is the growth of malignant tissues or cells in the oral cavity. This can happen as a lesion on he lips, tongue or on he walls of moth. Heavy use of tobacco and alcohol increases the risk of oral cancer in people. The research by the Indian scientists involved visually screeni...

Vitamin B linked to less risk of colorectal cancer in women

...rectal happens when there is growth of abnormal or malignant cells within the lining of colon or rectum. The study, which was done by Swedish and American researchers, said that inadequate intake of dietary vitamin B is at fault for the increased incidence of colorectal cancer amongst women. Researchers had l...

Blood test developed for malignant hyperthermia

...tical predisposition for a rare condition// called malignant hyperthermia. Malignant hyperthermia is an inheri...he patients can be susceptible to the condition of malignant hyperthermia. So instead of prevention, importance were placed on treatment. With the new test, thin...

New dosage of medicine gets more results in neuroblastoma

...he drug means that it will be easier to remove the malignant growth in the surgery. 40% of the patients enrolled for the study were surviving when the article was written. The study was published in the current issue of Clinical Oncology. Reference: Clinical Oncology, June 2005...

Risk for colorectal cancer high with eating red meat

...rectal happens when there is growth of abnormal or malignant cells within the lining of colon or rectum. The study called European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition have investigated the medical health records of 4,78,040 men and women in the age group of 25 to 70 years across the 10 Europea...

Caffeine can interfere with PET scan results

...raphy (CT) scan is done as a procedure to find out malignant growth or to evaluate the effect of treatment on an already diagnosed malignant growth. In this process a tracer like fluorodeoxyglucose is injected in the body that can be traced ...

Women with borderline ovarian tumors can still preserve their fertility

...s. These tumors have less chance of spreading as a malignant condition. These do respond to treatment by surgeries, but till date there had been no medical procedures that have been able to give a clear and successful treatment to the condition. Researches before the current one have not been able to show an...

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