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Oral cancer deaths declining among well-educated

Deaths from mouth and throat cancer have dropped since the early 1990s, according to a new study — but only among people with at least a high school education. Researchers said that may be due to...

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Bone marrow cancer threat can run in the family as gene found to increase...

A person’s genes can increase the risk of developing a type of bone marrow cancer by 30 per cent, a study has revealed. For the first time scientists have identified genes responsible for an aggressive...

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Updated biopsies could save breast cancer patients’ lives: study

One in seven women with advanced or recurring breast cancer could benefit from having an up-to-date biopsy to determine if their treatment plans should be changed, a new study has found. Currently,...

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Cancer consultants ‘may save lives’

The lives of more bowel cancer patients could be saved if the NHS made more consultants available in emergencies and cancers were detected earlier, experts have said. Bowel cancer is often only...

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Skin cancer rate may be higher in high-radon areas

Rates of one form of skin cancer may be elevated in areas with naturally high levels of the radioactive gas radon, a study suggests. But researchers caution the findings do not prove that radon raises...

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Hormonal prostate cancer therapy tied to blood clots

Hormone-targeted therapy for prostate cancer may raise the risk of potentially dangerous blood clots. Analyzing data on more than 154,000 older men with prostate cancer, researchers found that those...

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Scientists discover cancer cell ‘regulators’

THE latest breakthrough in cancer cell biology was made possible by the help of UWA researchers, providing critical reagents for experiments looking at the regulation of Src, a gene that produces a...

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Modern chemo cuts mortality in breast cancer patients

A major analysis of 123 randomized trials involving over 100,000 women with breast cancer over the past 40 years shows that modern chemotherapy regimens reduce mortality by around one third. The...

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Bowel cancer screening ‘does cut deaths’

A bowel cancer screening program is on course to cut deaths by a sixth, say researchers studying results from the first million people tested. However, the work, published in the journal Gut, has...

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Smoking strongly associated with non-melanoma skin cancer in women

Women who have non-melanoma skin cancers are more likely to have smoked cigarettes as compared to women without skin cancer, a new study has claimed. Researchers investigated the relationship between...

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