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Facebook, Google and Amazon join fight against cancer

Friday, March 1, 2013

Date: 11:00AM GMT 01 Mar 2013 Source: The Telegraph Facebook, Google and Amazon have teamed up with Cancer Research UK to design a mobile game that will allow members of the public to help the search for new cancer drugs. Researchers are working hard to identify the genetic faults that drive cancer Photo: ANDREW [...]

Global burden of cancer: opportunities for prevention

Wednesday, November 28, 2012

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Source: The Lancet, Volume 380, Issue 9856, Pages 1797 – 1799, 24 November 2012 In The Lancet, Isabelle Soerjomataram and colleagues report that about 169 million years of healthy life were lost due to cancer worldwide in 2008 alone, based on a summary measure (disability-adjusted life-years [DALY] lost) that combines years lived with disability and years [...]

Researchers explain link between alcohol, cancer risk

Wednesday, September 5, 2012

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Source: Dr.Bicuspid.com September 4, 2012 — Almost 30 years after discovery of a link between alcohol consumption and certain forms of cancer, scientists are reporting the first evidence from research on people explaining how the popular beverage may be carcinogenic. The findings were reported August 22 during the American Chemical Society annual meeting in Philadelphia. [...]

It Costs More, but Is It Worth More?

Tuesday, August 28, 2012

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Source: The New York Times- Opinion Pages By EZEKIEL J. EMANUEL and STEVEN D. PEARSON If you want to know what is wrong with American health care today, exhibit A might be the two new proton beam treatment facilities the Mayo Clinic has begun building, one in Minnesota, the other in Arizona, at a cost [...]

CDC says graphic anti-smoking ads work, more on way

Tuesday, August 7, 2012

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Source: USA Today The federal government says its graphic ad campaign showing diseased smokers has been such a success that it is planning another round next year to nudge more Americans to kick the habit. The ads, which ran for 12 weeks in spring and early summer, aimed to get 500,000 people to try to [...]

Oral Cancer in Swedish Snuff Dippers

Thursday, July 26, 2012

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Source: Anticancer Research Abstract Over recent decades there has been debate over whether or not Swedish snuff is carcinogenic in humans. Animal studies and molecular biological and experimental studies have shown the carcinogenic potential of Swedish snuff, but this has not been proved in prospective randomized studies. We present a case series of patients with [...]

Darwin’s Principles Say Cancer Will Always Evolve to Resist Treatment

Friday, June 22, 2012

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Source: ScienceDaily.com According to researchers at Moffitt Cancer Center, cancer is subject to the evolutionary processes laid out by Charles Darwin in his concept of natural selection. Natural selection was the process identified by Darwin by which nature selects certain physical attributes, or phenotypes, to pass on to offspring to better “fit” the organism to [...]

Big Tobacco Spending More Than a Super PAC to Defeat Cancer Research

Thursday, May 17, 2012

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Source: Livestrong.org My job requires me to be online all day keeping an ear to the ground on major issues related to cancer. I knew the Prop 29 fight in California was going to be fought against Big Tobacco, but I didn’t realize the scale of their funding machine. Why are LIVESTRONG, American Cancer Society, [...]

1 of 6 cancer deaths worldwide caused by preventable infections

Wednesday, May 9, 2012

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Source: Los Angeles Times One in every six cancer deaths worldwide is caused by preventable infections, a total of 1.5 million deaths yearly that could be halted by widespread vaccination programs, researchers reported Wednesday. Since 1990, that number has grown by about half a million, suggesting that vaccination programs are losing ground in the battle [...]

Beastie Boys Co-Founder Adam Yauch Dead at 47

Monday, May 7, 2012

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Source: Rolling Stone Magaznie Adam Yauch, one-third of the pioneering hip-hop group the Beastie Boys, has died at the age of 47, Rolling Stone has learned. Yauch, also known as MCA, had been in treatment for cancer since 2009. The rapper was diagnosed in 2009 after discovering a tumor in his salivary gland. “It is [...]

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