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Common early sign of cardiovascular disease also may indicate cancer risk
A study involving 488 cardiac patients whose cases were followed for up to 12 years…
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Does eating dairy foods increase your risk of prostate cancer?
Research Checks interrogate newly published studies and how they’re reported in the media. The analysis is…
3D-printed device finds ‘needle in a haystack’ cancer cells by removing the hay
Finding a handful of cancer cells hiding among billions of blood cells in a patient…
3D mammography: More breast cancers detected
A pilot trial of 3-D mammography—tomosynthesis—has shown that breast cancer detection, recall for assessment, and…
High fibre, yogurt diet associated with lower lung cancer risk
A diet high in fibre and yogurt is associated with a reduced risk for lung…
Preventing deaths from bowel cancer
In 2006 the National Bowel Cancer Screening Program (NBCSP) was introduced and its progressive phasing…
Combination of AI & radiologists more accurately identified breast cancer
An artificial intelligence (AI) tool–trained on roughly a million screening mammography images–identified breast cancer with…
Youngest Australian breast cancer patient urges women to be ‘breast aware’ this October
A Gold Coast woman who became the youngest Australian to be diagnosed with breast cancer…
Blood test could help to accelerate brain cancer diagnosis
A blood test which could help to accelerate the diagnosis of brain cancer has been…
Skin cancer prevention program may have reduced melanoma in Australians
by Public Library of Science A skin cancer prevention program called SunSmart may have contributed to…