How Childhood Leukemia Fights Back

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What makes a cancer come back? No one really knows, but for a long time researchers have thought that certain DNA changes in cancer cells may protect them from chemotherapy and allow them to stage a resurgence. Examining one of the most studied cancers, a childhood leukemia, a team in Tennessee has now cataloged exactly what happens to these leukemia cells in youngsters who relapse. What they found, although not necessarily true for other cancers, could be a big step toward new ways to prevent relapse and identify children at risk.

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Lifestyle Changes Can Keep Diabetes at Bay for 14 Years

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Diet and exercise programs for people at high risk for developing diabetes, when followed for six years, can actually delay the development of diabetes for fourteen years after the programs' end...

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The relationship between low levels of vitamin D and breast cancer

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The study shows us that women with breast cancer who have a vitamin D deficiency at the time of diagnosis are more likely to have a recurrence or to die from their disease. This study found that vitamin D deficiency is very common among women with breast cancer, and it suggests that vitamin D deficiency is linked to poorer outcomes in these women

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New potential therapy cuts risk of breast cancer's return

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Taking the breast cancer pill Femara can significantly reduce the chances that a woman's cancer will return, even long after she has stopped taking the estrogen blocker tamoxifen, U.S. researchers said on Monday.

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