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12/12/12 Blood Cancer Patients May Benefit From New Transplant Technique

WEDNESDAY, Dec. 12 (HealthDay News) -- Researchers who have multiplied umbilical cord-blood cells in the laboratory say their technique might improve recovery for patients needing blood stem cell transplants to treat a blood cancer. Their...

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12/12/12 Coffee May Lower Risk of Death From Mouth Cancer: Study

TUESDAY, Dec. 11 (HealthDay News) -- People who drink more than four cups of caffeinated coffee daily could significantly reduce their risk of death from certain forms of cancer, according to a new study from...

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12/10/12 In Girl’s Last Hope, Altered Immune Cells Beat Leukemia

New York TImes - By DENISE GRADY Published: December 9, 2012 PHILIPSBURG, Pa. — Emma Whitehead has been bounding around the house lately, practicing somersaults and rugby-style tumbles that make her parents wince. It is...

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12/9/12 Ariad drug proves effective in curbing chronic leukemia in study

Reuters Dec. 09, 2012 5:07AM PST An experimental leukemia drug from Ariad Pharmaceuticals Inc eliminated the cancer from the bone marrow of nearly half of patients with a chronic form of the disease who had...

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12/9/12 Roche breast cancer drug extends overall survival

Reuters Dec. 08, 2012 12:44AM PST ZURICH (Reuters) - Swiss pharma group Roche's drug Perjeta significantly extended the lives of women with an aggressive and incurable form of breast cancer compared to a placebo, according...

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12/9/12 Treat nutrition and cancer research cautiously: study

By Genevra Pittman | Reuters – Dec. 8, 2012 NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Studies suggesting that everything from cinnamon to lobster either raises or lowers a person's risk of cancer may sometimes be a...

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12/6/12 10 Years of Tamoxifen Better Than 5: Study

WEDNESDAY, Dec. 5 (HealthDay News) --Taking the breast cancer drug tamoxifen for a decade, instead of the standard five years, further reduces the long-term chances of recurrence and risk of dying from the disease, new...

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12/5/12 After parent’s cancer death, one in five kids self-injure

By Andrew M. Seaman, Reuters Dec. 04, 2012 NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - One in five teens who lost one of their parents to cancer cut or burn themselves, compared to one in ten teens...

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12/4/12 Diabetes Drug May Help Ovarian Cancer Patients Live Longer

Dec 3, 2012 Anna Azvolinsky, MyHealthNewsDaily Contributor Metformin, an inexpensive and common diabetes drug, may fight ovarian cancer, according to a new study. Women being treated for ovarian cancer at the Mayo Clinic who were...

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12/2/12 Art Therapy And Mindfulness Training Lower Stress In Breast Cancer Patients: Study

Stress is especially dangerous for those with cancer -- it's even been tied to lower survival rates -- but a new study suggests art and mindfulness could help decrease anxiety among this group. Creative art...

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12/2/12 Sleeplessness A Risk Factor for Aggressive Breast Cancer

By Lillie Shockney, R.N., M.A.S. Dec 01, 2012 You want to sleep but can’t. You’re worrying about your upcoming breast cancer treatments—the surgery, chemo, radiation, etc. Unfortunately, while you worry away the wee hours, the...

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11/30/12 HPV tied to throat cancers: study

By Genevra Pittman, Reuters Nov. 30, 2012 NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A sexually transmitted infection usually thought of in connection to cervical cancer is also tied to a five times greater risk of cancer...

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11/29/12 Aspirin May Reduce Risk of Liver Cancer, Death From Liver Disease

WEDNESDAY, Nov. 28 (HealthDay News) -- Aspirin use seems to be associated with a decreased risk of liver cancer and death from chronic liver disease, according to a large new study. This new study included...

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11/29/12 Some 20 percent of women overwhelmed by cancer treatment options: study

Reuters - Nov. 28, 2012 More than one in five women with early-stage breast cancer said they were given too much responsibility for treatment-related decisions - and those patients were more likely to end up...

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11/28/12 Study leaves women with conflicting advice on mammograms

Reuters Nov. 27, 2012 6:39AM PST CHICAGO (Reuters) - Controversial U.S. guidelines for mammography issued in 2009, calling for screening every two years rather than annually for women over 50 years old, can result in...

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11/22/12 Cancer drug ads don’t boost inappropriate prescribing

By Genevra Pittman, Reuters Nov. 22, 2012 NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A new study ties advertising for breast cancer drugs known as aromatase inhibitors to a slight increase in the total number of prescriptions...

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11/21/12 Smokers, Nonsmokers Alike Urged to Learn About Lung Cancer

TUESDAY, Nov. 20 (HealthDay News) -- Statistics show that lung cancer kills about 160,000 people a year in the United States and is the country's leading cause of cancer death, but there are steps people...

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11/21/12 Routine Checkups Don’t Cut Cancer, Heart Deaths: Study

TUESDAY, Nov. 20 (HealthDay News) -- Routine checkups don't help reduce a patient's risk of dying from either heart disease or cancer, new Danish research suggests. The finding applies to doctor visits among the general...

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11/18/12 Breast-Tissue Density Not Related to Increase in Breast-Cancer Mortality

By Lillie Shockney, R.N., M.A.S. Nov 19, 2012 Women continue to worry a great deal about their breast density. They wonder how dense their breast tissue is and if it’s so dense that it’s going...

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11/16/12 Earlier End-of-Life Talks Deter Aggressive Care of Terminal Cancer Patients

IMNG Medical Media. 2012 Nov 14, S Boschert Patients with stage IV lung or colorectal cancer who had end-of-life discussions with caregivers before the last 30 days of life were significantly less likely to receive...

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