Experts tackle the devil's tumour
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Scientists meet to discuss ways of saving the Tasmanian devil, which is being ravaged by an unusual cancer.
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Scientists are developing a new way of carrying out internal examinations on patients - based on a wriggling worm.
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A gel to destroy cervical cancer cells and minimise the threat of disease is under development.
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Doctors are hopeful about a new drug to treat skin cancer by causing tumor cells to self-destruct by overloading them with oxygen
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Experts hope news of Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist's thyroid cancer will spark interest in finding new treatments for the rarest and deadliest forms of the disease.
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Results of many clinical cancer trials are not finding their way into the public domain, leaving doctors in the dark when it comes to choosing the best cancer treatments for their patients, the charity Cancer Research UK warned Monday.
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Researchers in Dundee are set to trial a new treatment for children struck with a deadly skin condition.
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Scientists have found a new way to identify a particularly deadly form of prostate cancer in a breakthrough that could save tens of thousands of men from undergoing unnecessary surgery each year.
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Scientists are perfecting a technique which they hope will improve detection of mad cow disease (vCJD).
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Rising tobacco use and poverty will fuel cancer across the developing world, more than doubling the number of new cases to 27 million by 2050, experts predicted on Thursday.
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Scientists believe they have found a way to make prostate cancer treatment more effective.
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Medical scans expose people to similar levels of radiation as atomic bombs used in Hiroshima, say experts.
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The safety of herbal medicines, which are widely used on the basis of scant scientific evidence, is to be investigated by a new panel of European experts.
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Experts have dismissed claims a herbal remedy can treat cancer.
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Experts have trained unwanted dogs into supersniffers that can detect drugs or bombs. Now they're focusing on a new threat&#151;prostate cancer.
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Doctors are hopeful about a new drug to treat skin cancer by causing tumor cells to self-destruct by overloading them with oxygen.
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Scientists from across the globe gather to learn more about the ways in which light can be used in medicine.