Health News: [cancer]

ROBBINSVILLE: Woman cycling 4,400 miles for cancer fundraiser The Messenger-Press Thu, 29 Mar 2012 02:01 AM PDT ROBBINSVILLE â€" Ami Kumordzi says she hadn’t been on a bicycle since she was 10, but that didn’t deter her from signing on for a 4,400 mile cross-country bike ride this summer to raise awareness and funds for cancer research. Chavez back in Venezuela after 1st radiation round Forest City Summit Thu, 29 Mar 2012 01:57 AM PDT Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has returned home from Cuba after a five-day round of radiation therapy and says the cancer treatments are going well. Increasing incidences of brain tumours calls for more spend on vital research News-Medical-Net Thu, 29 Mar 2012 01:50 AM PDT With more children and people under the age of 40 dying of a brain tumour than any other cancer in the United Kingdom, a leading researcher at Queen's University Belfast is calling for an increase in spending on vital research. Chavez home after cancer treatment AAP via Yahoo!7 News Thu, 29 Mar 2012 01:50 AM PDT Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is home after treatment in Cuba for radiation therapy. Broad Institute, Novartis develop cancer cell line encyclopedia News-Medical-Net Thu, 29 Mar 2012 01:49 AM PDT Novartis and the Broad Institute have developed a cancer cell line encyclopedia that catalogues the genetic and molecular profiles of almost 1,000 human cancer cell lines used in drug research and development. Results of the collaboration, published in the journal Nature and released in advance online today, may allow scientists around the world to use this information to improve cancer clinical ... Navidea announces data from Lymphoseek Phase 3 study on oral and squamous cell cancers News-Medical-Net Thu, 29 Mar 2012 01:49 AM PDT Navidea Biopharmaceuticals, Inc., a specialty pharmaceutical company focused on precision diagnostic radiopharmaceuticals, today announced that data from its Phase 3 clinical study investigating 99m-Tc-Tilmanocept in oral and squamous cell cancers (SCC) were presented as a poster presentation at the 65th Annual Cancer Symposium of the Society of Surgical Oncology (SSO) meeting held in Orlando ... Lung cancer tops cancer deaths in Iowa The Iowa City Press-Citizen Thu, 29 Mar 2012 01:43 AM PDT Health experts at the University of Iowa said Wednesday that funding cuts to the Division of Tobacco Use Prevention and Control undermine state efforts to improve the health of Iowans. Gov. Time to kick the meat habit Sussex Express Thu, 29 Mar 2012 01:38 AM PDT REGULARLY eating red meat significantly increases the risk of dying from heart disease and cancer, according to a recently published study of more than 120,000 people carried out over 28 years by the Harvard School of Public Health. New treatment approach halts spread of cancer cells into normal brain tissue News-Medical-Net Thu, 29 Mar 2012 01:35 AM PDT Treating invasive brain tumors with a combination of chemotherapy and radiation has improved clinical outcomes, but few patients survive longer than two years after diagnosis. The effectiveness of the treatment is limited by the tumor's aggressive invasion of healthy brain tissue, which restricts chemotherapy access to the cancer cells and complicates surgical removal of the tumor. Researchers deisgn new treatment approach for invasive brain tumors News-Medical-Net Thu, 29 Mar 2012 01:34 AM PDT Researchers from Emory and the Georgia Institute of Technology have designed a new treatment approach that appears to halt the spread of cancer cells into normal brain tissue in animal models.

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