A Preview of the ASCO Wars
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A preview of some of the biopharmas presenting at the American Society of Clinical Oncology conference.
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This small biotech provides screens that can help catch cancer.
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Some experts say the push to use nuclear particle accelerators for cancer-fighting reflects the best and worst of the  market-based U.S. health care system.
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In the battle against cancer, saving two patients out of 17 may seem modest enough. But researchers see hope that using genetically altered immune cells to attack tumors -- as was done in this study -- may hold the key to eventually defeating various cancers.
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A debate over a hypothesis that cancers are fed by cancerous stem cells could affect the path of research.
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Researchers have discovered a small population of stem cells in pancreatic cancer that appear to drive tumor growth, opening the door for a potential new approach for treating this particularly deadly disease.
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When Diana Menendez was diagnosed with Hodgkin&#39;s disease in 1968 at age 8, doctors weren&#39;t sure they could cure her. So they hit her cancer with everything they had: high-dose radiation and four years of chemotherapy.
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Therapies that target the basic mechanisms of cancer have become the weapons of choice in the fight against the deadly disease, researchers said at a major doctors&#39; conference in the United States.
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A cutting-edge laboratory has opened in Alabama.  Its mission: to combat diseases ranging from asthma to malaria to stroke using data from NASA satellites.  Space scientists and public health officials are working together to train the doctors of tomorrow in this far-out approach to medicine.
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A technique for determining whether cancer has spread could save many patients from surgery.
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Canadian scientists have found cancer stem cells that seem to fuel the uncontrolled growth of malignant brain tumors. If they could be targeted with
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Scientists on both sides of the Atlantic are finding better ways to diagnose brain tumours.
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Doctors have finally come up with a set of symptoms that may help diagnose ovarian cancer earlier. Now the challenge is to get the word out.
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Instead of using surgery, chemotherapy, or radiation, researchers from the National Institutes of Health are finding so-far limited but inspiring success in a new approach for fighting cancer, using the immune system to attack the tumors the way it would a cold or flu.
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Prostate cancer (news - web sites) is the second most common type of cancer afflicting American men. And while one in six men will get the disease during
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The first complete map of protein interactions in human cells could lead to better treatment for breast cancer.
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The battle is on for your desktop. If it&#39;s anything like many previous computer wars, it will be fought with features as the primary weapons.