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Researchers Discover Critical Process In Cancer Treatment
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From the sun's UVA rays to tobacco smoke, our environment is chock-full of DNA-damaging agents that can lead to cancer. Thanks to our body's DNA repair mechanisms, however, the effects of many carcinogens can be reversed thereby preventing the formation of tumours. 


New Life for a Discredited Treatment?
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The long-dormant debate over vitamin C's usefulness for cancer therapy may be about to reignite. Researchers have found that injecting mice with high doses of the vitamin staved off tumor growth. The findings could upend the established view that vitamin C is useless as a cancer treatment. 


Study finds safer, more efficient medication for hepatitis B treatment
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Patients with hepatitis B who did not respond to lamivudine therapy had a better virological response after switching to entecavir for a year. Continuing the drug for an additional year led to even more clinical improvement without significant side effects, according to a new study in the July issue of Hepatology, a journal published by John Wiley & Sons on behalf of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases (AASLD). The article is also available online at Wiley Interscience (www.interscience.wiley.com). Chronic hepatitis B is the tenth leading cause of death worldwide 
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Much has been learned about the potential of the immune system to control cancer and the various ways that immunotherapy can boost the potential of the immune system for the benefit of the patient. This knowledge has stimulated the invention of many new therapeutic antibodies, cell-based treatments, and vaccines, which are starting to be used in clinical practice, either alone or in various combinations. These new therapies are expected to result in improved cancer treatment and, eventually, the prevention of cancer. 


New treatment option studied for bladder cancer
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A chemotherapy regimen for patients with advanced bladder cancer who aren’t eligible for standard treatment is under study at the Medical College of Georgia. 


Quantitative PET imaging finds early determination of effectiveness of cancer treatment
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With positron emission tomography imaging, seeing is believing: evaluating a patient's response to chemotherapy for non-Hodgkin lymphoma typically involves visual interpretation of scans of cancer tumors. Researchers have found that measuring a quantitative index -- one that reflects the reduction of metabolic activity after chemotherapy first begins -- adds accurate information about patients' responses to first-line chemotherapy, according to a study in the October issue of the Journal of Nuclear Medicine. 


UPDATE 1-Sanofi Pasteur MSD to extend Gardasil treatment
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Sanofi Pasteur MSD said it aimed to extend the use of its cervical cancer vaccine treatment Gardasil, which competes with rival GlaxoSmithKline's Cervarix. 


Tangerine peel: a kills to cancer
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It's a new approach to uncovering a treatment for cancers such as breast, lung, prostrate and ovarian cancer,but the finding is still in its early days and many tests will be needed before reaching the clinical trial stage, which could take between five and seven years. 


Scientists, physicians present latest findings in 'personalized' cancer treatment and prevention
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Scientists and clinicians from around the world will gather in Atlanta, Ga., next week at the American Association for Cancer Research's second International Conference on Molecular Diagnostics in Cancer Therapeutic Development. 


Advance In The Search For An Effective Treatment For Liver Cancer
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Researchers from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine report a significant new advance in the search for an effective treatment for human liver cancer in the July issue of Molecular Cancer Therapeutics. Using a newly available monoclonal antibody, they demonstrated significant reductions in tumor cell proliferation and survival in human and mouse hepatocellular cancer (HCC) cell lines. According to the researchers, this finding has significant implications not only for the treatment of liver cancer but for a number of different types of cancer. 


Tumors 'immune signature' studied
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U.S. scientists have created a method of identifying how cancer evades the body's immune system -- a finding that might lead to specific cancer treatments. 


Many cancer survivors go back to work as usual
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When a person is first diagnosed with cancer and undergoes treatment, their work may suffer; but in the long run, most people who survive cancer work a similar number of hours as anyone else, new study findings show. 


Depression treatment helps reduce suicide attempts
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According to a new study.Depression treatment contributes to a decline in suicide attempts, In a study of more than 100,000 patients treated for depression, suicide attempts declined during the first month of treatment, whether that treatment applied medication, psychotherapy, or both, according to the findings, published in July's American Journal of Psychiatry. 


Frog molecule could provide drug treatment for brain tumors
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A synthetic version of a molecule found in the egg cells of the Northern Leopard frog (Rana pipiens) could provide the world with the first drug treatment for brain tumors. 


Weill Cornell Team Identifies Potential New Cancer Drug Target
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Manipulating a Protein Called XIAP Could Lead to Tumor Cells' Death. Research led by scientists at Weill Cornell Medical College has uncovered two new potential points of vulnerability on a key cancer-promoting protein, called XIAP. Drugs that target either of these activities could help push cancer cells back into a more regular programmed cell death and thereby reduce or eliminate tumors. 