For patients suffering from cancer in the mouth or throat, a recent study
shows that a treatment called submandibular gland transfer will assist in
preventing a radiation-induced condition called xerostomia. Also known as dry
mouth, xerostomia occurs when salivary glands stop working…
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A drug developed to treat Ewing’s Sarcoma, a rare childhood cancer, may also
help prevent human prostate cancer from spreading, as seen in new lab studies.
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Low health literacy is a significant barrier to quality care, especially among
elderly patients, but increased use of simple and effective health literacy
assessment tests by nurses and clinicians can help improve communication and
health outcomes.
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Robotic surgery has become a mainstream tool for removing an ever-increasing
variety of head and neck tumors. Now, a team of head and neck surgeons has
found robotic surgery can treat cancer in the narrow, hard-to-reach area
beyond the tongue at the top of the voice box. Some patients were able to
avoid further treatment with chemotherapy or radiation, [...]
Researchers have made the first systematic survey of the landscape of the
melanoma genome, the DNA code of the deadliest form of skin cancer. The
researchers have made surprising new discoveries using whole-exome sequencing,
an approach that decodes the 1-2 percent of the genome that contains protein-
coding genes.
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Scientists have developed a new treatment for cancer which rather than
attacking tumors directly, prevents the growth of new blood vessels in tumors,
starving them of oxygen and nutrients, thereby preventing their growth.
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Scientists have identified a biomarker for measuring the success of lung
cancer chemoprevention, an emerging frontier in the fight against this disease
that has long been stymied by a lack of measureable outcomes.
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A new study lend credence to the idea that improving quality of life affects
stress-related biological markers and possibly the health of people with
cancer.
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In the single largest cancer genomics investigation reported to date,
scientists have sequenced the whole genomes of tumors from 50 breast cancer
patients and compared them to the matched DNA of the same patients’ healthy
cells. They uncovered incredible complexity in the cancer genomes, but also
got a glimpse of new routes toward personalized medicine.
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