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Professor Robin Room’s recommendations to curb Australia’s alcohol consumption
AUSTRALIA should reduce trading hours for clubs and pubs, raise the minimum age for buying…
Rituximab Purging and/or Maintenance in Patients Undergoing Autologous Transplantation for Relapsed Follicular Lymphoma
A PROSPECTIVE RANDOMISED Trial From the Lymphoma Working Party of the European Group for Blood…
Tens of thousands of lives saved in the running battle against cancers
MORE than 61,000 people have been saved from dying of cancer in Australia over the…
Cancer firm AVO buys Large Hadron Collider spin-off
A BRITISH CANCER treatment company is buying a business spun off from technology developed from…
Researchers look to emus for the good oil
EMU oil has been found to help treat a variety of common bowel diseases as…
Surviving prostate cancer: a prostate surgeon’s story
PROFESSOR Roger Kirby is one of the world’s leading prostate surgeons. So when he developed…
Blood test reveals women’s response to breast cancer treatment
BREAST tumour DNA circulating in the bloodstream could be used to measure how well a…
Smoking linked with worse urothelial cancer prognosis in patients, especially women
SMOKING significantly increases individuals’ risk of developing serious forms of urothelial carcinoma and a higher…
New cancer diagnostic technique debuts
CANCER cells break down sugars and produce the metabolic acid lactate at a much higher…
Trastuzumab for Breast Cancer Linked to CNS Metastases
WOMEN with HER2-positive breast cancer who receive adjuvant trastuzumab (Herceptin, Genentech/Roche) have a significant risk for…