News that has caught Rachael Babin’s eye this week
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Combination drug therapy shrinks pancreatic tumours in mice
A combination of two drugs appears to be effective at shrinking pancreatic cancers in laboratory…
New guidelines address long-term needs of colorectal cancer survivors
New American Cancer Society Cancer Survivorship Care guidelines provide primary care clinicians with recommendations for providing comprehensive…
Surgical probe seeks out where cancer ends and healthy tissue begins
A new surgical tool that uses light to make sure surgeons removing cancerous tumours “got…
Study questions use of androgen deprivation therapy for certain prostate cancer cases
Among men with unfavourable prostate cancer and moderate or severe co-existing illness, long-term follow-up finds…
Virus in cattle linked to human breast cancer
A new study by University of California, Berkeley, researchers establishes for the first time a…
Brazil’s cancer curse
By Sue Armstrong – Mosiac Science. The startling discovery that hundreds of thousands of Brazilians have…
Mediterranean diet plus olive oil associated with reduced breast cancer risk
Eating a Mediterranean diet supplemented with extra virgin olive oil was associated with a relatively…
The ups and downs of incorporating a new treatment to try to prevent chemotherapy-associated neuropa
In this age of the 24-hour news cycle, instant access to all information everywhere, PubMed,…
Cancer preventative surgery could become a thing of the past, new research suggests
Surgery to remove the breasts of women at increased risk of developing breast cancer may…
Cancer decoy could attract and capture malignant cells
A small, implantable device that researchers are calling a cancer “super-attractor” could eventually give doctors…