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Ultrasound exams are better than blood tests at identifying whether ovarian tumors are benign or malignant, a team of international researchers reports. Ultrasound correctly identified 93% of tumors as benign or cancerous, while the blood test was correct 83% of the time....
Cancers of the mouth are among the most curable malignancies—but only when they're detected early. However, the signs and...
Heavy smokers with knee arthritis may be experiencing an early sign of a difficult to-treat lung cancer, research shows. The Study Researchers...
The addition of the chemotherapy drug, docetaxel (Taxotere), to the standard two-drug regimen used for head and neck cancers improved the efficacy...
A highly targeted drug called cetuximab (Erbitux) is the first to extend the survival of patients with advanced colon cancer who have...
A new study supports the effectiveness of an innovative form of colonoscopy I that relies on a CT scanner to image a...
For someone recently diagnosed with cancer, facing the prospect of chemotherapy and the possibility of side effects can feel like a double...
Many cancer patients augment conventional medical treatment with complementary medicine, such as nutritional or herbal supplements. The newest research and decades of...
Chemotherapy has proven to be lifesaving for many cancer patients, but the treatment often inflicts massive "collateral” damage on surrounding healthy...
A hormone called adrenomedullin may prove an effective drug target for treating lymphedema, a painful swelling of the limbs that can follow...
Lymph nodes, lymph vessels and lymph fluid L are all part of the immune system. Up to 42% of women who have...
The aromatase inhibitor drug anastrozole (Arimidex) continues to outpace the old standard tamoxifen (Nolvadex) when it comes to preventing recurrences of hormonereceptor-positive...