Cancer

Gene domino effect behind brain, pancreatic tumors

Posted by iansinkovits from Yahoo News!

AP - Scientists have mapped the cascade of genetic changes that turn normal cells in the brain and pancreas into two of the most lethal cancers. The result points to a new approach for fighting tumors and maybe even catching them sooner. Genes blamed for one person's brain tumor were different from the culprits for the next patient, making the puzzle of cancer genetics even more complicated.

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Doggie 'doctors' diagnose their owners' ills - Creature Comforts- msnbc.com

Posted by Jeff from MSNBC

In the past few years, studies have shown that dogs can sniff out both early and late stage lung and breast cancers. The Pine Street Foundation, a non-profit cancer education and research organization, in San Anselmo, Calif., is even training dogs to recognize ovarian cancer.

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Chinese Pollution = Increase in Cancer

Posted by bugaloo

In attempting to increase its economic development, the Chinese regime has managed to increase its mortality rates. China is one of the most polluted countries in the world, if not the most polluted.

Statistics furnished by the World Bank are astonishing: 16 of the 20 most polluted cities in the world are located in China; 90% of urban groundwater in China is contaminated; it is estimated that circa 900,000 people die every year from air and water pollution.

Highly toxic heavy metals such as lead and mercury contaminate cultivable terrain thus poisoning the food, while the number of Chinese citizens who die due to lung cancer and other serious respiratory diseases is constantly increasing....

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Scientist to Congress: Oil Execs Commit High Crimes

Posted by Jeff from Feeds.feedburner

    Testimony to US Congress will also criticize lobbyists. "Revolutionary" policies needed to tackle crisis.

    New York - James Hansen, one of the world's leading climate scientists, will today call for the chief executives of large fossil fuel companies to be put on trial for high crimes against humanity and nature, accusing them of actively spreading doubt about global warming in the same way that tobacco companies blurred the links between smoking and cancer.

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New Treatment Saves Man With Deadly Skin Cancer

Posted by cathee from New York Times

An experimental treatment that boosted a 52-year-old patient’s immune system to fight advanced skin cancer was successful, his doctors report.

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Kennedy out of 'successful' brain surgery

Posted by Jeff from Associated Press

DURHAM, N.C. (AP) -- After investigating all his options with his trademark intensity, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy underwent 3 1/2 hours of risky and exquisitely delicate surgery Monday to cut out as much of his cancerous brain tumor as possible....

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Vaccine doubles survival of deadly brain cancer

Posted by aknight from MSNBC

A cancer vaccine more than doubled the survival time of people with the most common and deadly type of brain tumor, U.S. researchers said on Monday.

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