Technique Tracks Cancer-Killing Cells (HealthDay)
HealthDay - WEDNESDAY, Nov. 19 (HealthDay News) — U.S. researchers say they’ve developed a new long-term method of monitoring the location and survival of cancer-killing cells within the body. Read more..
AFP - The European Patent Office on Wednesday restored on appeal a controversial patent for a breast cancer gene that had been withdrawn from a US biotech firm, but granting it in a more restricted form than before.
US scientists have mapped the complete genome of a middle-aged female cancer patient who died of acute myelogenous leukemia; they decoded 3 billion bits of her DNA and identified the genes involved in her disease, including 8 new ones. Read more..
Beating Cancer, how can you possibly beat cancer when the treatments for it are killing good cells too? You actually have two battles the physical and the mental. Read more..
Reuters - U.S. Sen. Edward Kennedy, battling a life-threatening brain tumor, returned to the Senate on Monday for the first time since July and pledged to work next year to expand health care for all Americans.
Reuters - Many women who experience abnormal swelling of the arm or shoulder area following treatment for breast cancer — a bothersome condition called lymphedema — suffer in silence, a new survey indicate. Read more..
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