Cancer patient who was given DAYS to live celebrates eight years in remission
When her parents took her to the hospital...
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Lethal combination: Drug cocktail turns off the juice to cancer cells
The widely used anti-diabetes drug metformin not only reduces blood sugar but also has an anti-cancer effect...
Global patterns in excess body weight and the associated cancer burden
Excess body weight is associated with the risk of various cancers....
HPV type 16 or 18 in young women predicts risk of cervical cancer
Four out of five women of fertile age are infected at some time in their lives with HPV. Most of these infections clear on their own, but for some five per cent of the women, the infection turns chronic...
Sprayable gel may prevent cancer recurrence after surgery
A group of researchers with University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) have developed a spray gel that contains immune-stimulating drugs...
Australian scientists develop 10-minute cancer test
The researchers have run the test on 200 human cancer samples and healthy DNA with 90 percent accuracy...
Study finds higher risk of breast cancer for women after giving birth
Breast cancer is second to only skin cancer as the most commonly diagnosed form of the disease in women...
Kick from horse leads to discovery of testicular tumour
However the trip to the hospital led to the discovery that he had an aggressive form of testicular cancer...
Florida girl, 2, fighting cancer needs rare blood type only found in a VERY specific gene pool in Asia
Zainab Mughal, from South Florida, was diagnosed with neuroblastoma - a cancer in the nerve cells - and needs life-saving blood transfusions as she undergoes chemotherapy...
3-year-old girl in China may be world's youngest breast cancer survivo
The stains persisted for a few weeks and the woman was alarmed when she felt a small lump on the left side of her daughter's chest...
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