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	<title>Oral Cancer News &#187; Oral Cancer News</title>
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		<title>New DNA therapy for advanced mouth cancer</title>
		<link>http://oralcancernews.org/wp/new-dna-therapy-for-advanced-mouth-cancer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Feb 2010 16:42:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Oral Cancer Foundation News Team</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Oral Cancer News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[antisense]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[DNA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[EGFR]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Source: www.dentistry.co.uk
Author: staff
A research team has been awarded a patent after developing a new DNA therapy for head and neck cancer sufferers. Researchers from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine in the US,  aims to develop a safe and effective alternative to standard chemotherapy treatments which cause debilitating side-effects.
Based on a form of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Laser and nanoparticles blow up cancer cells</title>
		<link>http://oralcancernews.org/wp/laser-and-nanoparticles-blow-up-cancer-cells/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Feb 2010 16:35:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Oral Cancer Foundation News Team</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[antibodies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gold]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://oralcancernews.org/wp/?p=7827</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Source: news.softpedia.com/
Author: Tudor Vieru
In a new approach to fighting cancer cells, or cells ridden by several other types of diseases as well, researchers managed to combine the powers of lasers and nanoparticles most efficiently. The method relies on using short bursts of laser light to produce small explosions from gold particles that have been placed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Harmless virus could be an answer to cancer</title>
		<link>http://oralcancernews.org/wp/harmless-virus-could-be-an-answer-to-cancer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Feb 2010 19:11:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Oral Cancer Foundation News Team</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Oral Cancer News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[metastatic disease]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Oncolytics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[RAS pathway]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Reolysin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[reovirus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Respiratory Enteric Orphan virus]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://oralcancernews.org/wp/?p=7822</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Source: www.dailyfinance.com
Author: Melly  Alazraki 
You&#8217;d think that infecting a cancer patient with a virus would be the last thing a doctor would want to do. But what if it was a virus that attacks and kills cancer cells? That&#8217;s exactly the premise that led to the founding of Oncolytics Biotech, a Calgary-based biotechnology company. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Survey: use of internet to find health information increases</title>
		<link>http://oralcancernews.org/wp/survey-use-of-internet-to-find-health-information-increases/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Feb 2010 15:54:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Oral Cancer Foundation News Team</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[chat groups]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://oralcancernews.org/wp/?p=7818</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Source: www.medscape.com
Author: staff
More than half of Americans looked up  health information on the Internet last year, U.S. government researchers reported on Tuesday. But only 5% used email to communicate with their doctors, the survey  by the National Center for Health Statistics found. The survey included 7,192 adults aged 18 to 64 questioned between  January and June [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Medical group urges new rules on radiation</title>
		<link>http://oralcancernews.org/wp/medical-group-urges-new-rules-on-radiation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Feb 2010 05:26:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Oral Cancer Foundation News Team</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[linear accelerators]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Source: nytimes.com
Author:  Walt Bogdanich
The leading professional organization dedicated to radiation oncology has called for enhanced safety measures in administering medical radiation, including the establishment of the nation’s first central database for the reporting of errors involving linear accelerators — machines that generate radiation — and CT scanners.
The group, the American Society for Radiation Oncology, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>HPV-associated base of tongue squamous cell carcinoma incidence increasing in Sweden</title>
		<link>http://oralcancernews.org/wp/hpv-associated-base-of-tongue-squamous-cell-carcinoma-incidence-increasing-in-sweden/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Feb 2010 05:20:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Oral Cancer Foundation News Team</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://oralcancernews.org/wp/?p=7808</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Source: www.hemonctoday.com
Author: staff
The incidence for base of tongue squamous cell carcinoma increased significantly in Sweden between 1998 and 2007, and by 2007, more than 80% of these cases were HPV-positive.
Various studies during the past 20 years have indicated that HPV is a risk factor for oropharyngeal cancer. However, few studies have assessed the specific sub-sites [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pitt researchers receive patent for new head and neck cancer treatment</title>
		<link>http://oralcancernews.org/wp/pitt-researchers-receive-patent-for-new-head-and-neck-cancer-treatment/</link>
		<comments>http://oralcancernews.org/wp/pitt-researchers-receive-patent-for-new-head-and-neck-cancer-treatment/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2010 13:34:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Oral Cancer Foundation News Team</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Source: www.healthcanal.com
Author: staff
Researchers from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine have been awarded a patent from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for the development of a new DNA therapy for head and neck cancers. The therapy targets the epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR), a protein found on the surface of many types of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Photodynamic therapy linked to oral cancer benefit</title>
		<link>http://oralcancernews.org/wp/photodynamic-therapy-linked-to-oral-cancer-benefit/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Jan 2010 02:54:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Oral Cancer Foundation News Team</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://oralcancernews.org/wp/?p=7800</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Source: www.modernmedicine.com
Author: staff
Photodynamic therapy (PDT) appears useful in treating early-stage cancer of the mouth or oropharynx, either as a primary treatment or as an addition to unsuccessful surgery or radiation, according to research published in the January issue of Lasers in Surgery and Medicine.
Vanessa Gayl Schweitzer, M.D., and Melissa L. Somers, M.D., of the Henry [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Drinkers underestimate harm from alcohol</title>
		<link>http://oralcancernews.org/wp/drinkers-underestimate-harm-from-alcohol/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Jan 2010 02:50:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Oral Cancer Foundation News Team</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[alcohol]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Source: www.onmedica.com
Author: OnMedica staff
More than half (55%) of people in England who drink alcohol wrongly believe that alcohol only damages your health if you regularly get drunk or binge drink, a poll by YouGov has shown.
YouGov questioned more than 2,000 adults and found that 83% of those who regularly drink more than the NHS recommended [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Serum prognostic markers in head and neck cancer</title>
		<link>http://oralcancernews.org/wp/serum-prognostic-markers-in-head-and-neck-cancer/</link>
		<comments>http://oralcancernews.org/wp/serum-prognostic-markers-in-head-and-neck-cancer/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jan 2010 00:43:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Oral Cancer Foundation News Team</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[head and neck cancer]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://oralcancernews.org/wp/?p=7792</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Source: Clincancerres

François Meyer1,
Élodie Samson1,2,
Pierre Douville1,
Thierry Duchesne2,
Geoffrey Liu3 and
Isabelle Bairati1



Authors&#8217; Affiliations:1Laval University Cancer Research Center and 2Département de Mathématiques et Statistique, Laval University, Quebec, Quebec and 3Medical Biophysics Department, Ontario Cancer Institute/Princess Margaret Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada



Corresponding Author:François Meyer, Cancer Research Center, Laval University, CHUQ, HDQ, 11, Cote Du Palais, Quebec, Quebec, G1R 2J6 Canada. Phone: 418-525-4444-15581; Fax: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>HPV vaccine could help prevent other cancers, too: studies</title>
		<link>http://oralcancernews.org/wp/hpv-vaccine-could-help-prevent-other-cancers-too-studies/</link>
		<comments>http://oralcancernews.org/wp/hpv-vaccine-could-help-prevent-other-cancers-too-studies/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jan 2010 21:39:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Oral Cancer Foundation News Team</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[alcohol]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[HPV]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[human papilloma]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://oralcancernews.org/wp/?p=7787</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Source: www.vancouversun.com
Author: Tom Spears, Canwest News Service
Cancer doctors are starting to believe that the human papilloma — or HPV — HPV, intended to prevent cervical cancer, will likely prevent other cancers as well — and in men as well as women.
Recent research is linking the HPV virus to a variety of cancers in the head [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Radiation was the cure, and the killer</title>
		<link>http://oralcancernews.org/wp/radiation-was-the-cure-and-the-killer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jan 2010 05:10:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Oral Cancer Foundation News Team</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://oralcancernews.org/wp/?p=7781</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Source: nytimes.com
Author: Walt Bogdanich
As Scott Jerome-Parks lay dying, he clung to this wish: that his fatal radiation overdose &#8212; which left him deaf, struggling to see, unable to swallow, burned, with his teeth falling out, with ulcers in his mouth and throat, nauseated, in severe pain and finally unable to breathe &#8212; be studied and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>E-Cigarette company faces legal fights on multiple fronts</title>
		<link>http://oralcancernews.org/wp/e-cigarette-company-faces-legal-fights-on-multiple-fronts/</link>
		<comments>http://oralcancernews.org/wp/e-cigarette-company-faces-legal-fights-on-multiple-fronts/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Jan 2010 05:59:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Oral Cancer Foundation News Team</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Oral Cancer News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[carbon monoxide]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Source: www.legalnewsline.com
Author: Chris Rizo
Officials in California are making a strong push against one of the largest electronic cigarette retailers in the United States. It seems that the manufacturer &#8212; Smoking Everywhere LLC &#8212; is facing attack on at least two fronts in the Golden State: from the attorney general and a leading state lawmaker.
State Attorney [...]]]></description>
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		<title>HSE apologises over diagnosis</title>
		<link>http://oralcancernews.org/wp/hse-apologises-over-diagnosis/</link>
		<comments>http://oralcancernews.org/wp/hse-apologises-over-diagnosis/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2010 20:00:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Oral Cancer Foundation News Team</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Oral Cancer News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[HSE]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mouth cancer]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[University College Hospital Galway]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Source: Irishtimes
Author: Mary Carolan
The HSE has apologised to the family of a deceased 59 year old man after admitting a two year delay in diagnosing his cancer and is also to pay over some €102,000 under a settlement of High Court proceedings.
John McNeive, Logalisheen, Ballindine, Co Mayo, died in August 2005 four months after he [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Idera obtains clinical milestone under collaboration with Merck</title>
		<link>http://oralcancernews.org/wp/idera-obtains-clinical-milestone-under-collaboration-with-merck/</link>
		<comments>http://oralcancernews.org/wp/idera-obtains-clinical-milestone-under-collaboration-with-merck/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2010 16:59:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Oral Cancer Foundation News Team</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Oral Cancer News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cetuximab]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[EMD 1201081]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://oralcancernews.org/wp/?p=7769</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Source: www.tradingmarkets.com
Author: staff
Idera Pharmaceuticals, a biotechnology company, has achieved a milestone under its worldwide licensing and collaboration agreement with Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany. 
The milestone was achieved upon initiation of a Phase II trial by Merck KGaA of EMD 1201081, a novel agonist of toll-like receptor 9 (TLR9), in combination with cetuximab in second-line cetuximab-naive [...]]]></description>
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