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'Exceptional responders' to cancer drugs draw scrutiny from scientists
The Washington Post
Grace Silva and Karen Coakley are both 59, mothers living in the Boston suburbs and patients at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, where they have spent years wrestling with daunting diagnoses.
While they have never met, the two women are connected in a way that goes beyond their similar stories and their struggles with cancer. They share an intimate and uncommon link, the sort of genetic bond possible only in an age of precision medicine.
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Study shows benefit of higher-quality screening colonoscopies
The JAMA Network Journals via Medical Xpress
An analysis that included information from more than 57,000 screening colonoscopies suggests that higher adenoma detection rates may be associated with up to 50 percent to 60 percent lower lifetime colorectal cancer incidence and death without higher overall costs, despite a higher number of colonoscopies and potential complications, according to a study in the June 16 issue of JAMA.
Smoking causes 12 different kinds of cancers
TIME
Everyone knows smoking can cause lung cancer. But it also causes a whole array of other varieties of the disease, from pancreatic cancer to leukemia. Now, new research sheds light on just how deadly tobacco can be when smokers get cancer.
Smoking causes more than 48 percent of deaths from the 12 types of cancer sometimes caused by smoking, according to new research in JAMA Internal Medicine.
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Radiation experts unite to streamline cancer clinical trials
Cancer Research UK
Regulations on radiation exposure have been a critical bottleneck in starting up new cancer trials, but now radiation experts from the Experimental Cancer Medicine Centre network — a joint initiative between Cancer Research UK and the U.K.'s four health departments — are pioneering a new streamlined system to reduce the time taken to set up clinical trials involving radiotherapy and other forms of ionizing radiation, such as PET scans.
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The National Consortium of Breast Centers is offering the Breast Patient
Navigator and Clinical Breast Examiner Certification program in one location. The Navigator certification exam will be on Friday, August 14th and the day and a half CBE program on the 15th and 16th in Knoxville. Housing deadline is July 10th.
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Not working out: Getting cancer patients to just do it
Medscape
 Dr. Harold Burstein writes: "Mounting evidence suggests that lifestyle modifications can improve survival for cancer patients and be a very important part of their ongoing care. I wanted to talk today about what those lifestyle modifications are and, in particular, the role of the oncologist in helping patients make those changes."
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New method for investigating and classifying liver tumors
Medical University of Vienna via Medical Xpress
Adenomas are rare liver tumors, a certain percentage of which can become malignant. Using a new MR (magnetic resonance) technique at MedUni Vienna, it is now possible to classify adenomas without subjecting patients to invasive tissue sampling procedures.
Previously, patients have had to undergo biopsy to take tissue samples for histological examination in order to determine whether a hepatocellular adenoma is benign or potentially malignant.
New 'Recovery Room' episode available
ACS
Approximately 17 percent of the pediatric and adolescent populations are considered obese. Obesity in children is related to other maladies, including diabetes, hypertension, liver disease and cardiac ailments. Weight loss surgical procedures have been shown to be effective and can reduce the associated illnesses brought on by obesity in adults. But should these same strategies also be used to treat obesity in children? In this episode of "The Recovery Room," host Frederick Greene, M.D., FACS, discusses children and bariatric surgery issues with guest Marc P. Michalsky, M.D., FACS, an expert in bariatric surgery in children and adolescents.
Cervical cancer screening: Review calls for urgent screening changes
Medical News Today
Following a review of cervical cancer cases, calls have been made for urgent changes to cervical cancer screening recommendations, aiming to encourage routine screening for older women. The review, published in The BMJ, found that in the U.K., around 20 percent of new cases of cervical cancer diagnosed are in women aged 65 and over, along with around 50 percent of deaths. In comparison, the review found that just 2 percent of new cervical cancer diagnoses were made in women under the age of 25.
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ALK1 protein may play a role in breast cancer metastasis
Science Codex
Prognosis for breast cancer is relatively good when detected in its early stages. Metastatic disease is the cause of 90 percent of all cancer-related deaths. Therefore, learning more about the metastatic process and finding new cures to inhibit disease spread is at the center of clinical attention.
'Groundbreaking' cure for deadly asbestos-related cancer could be near
RT
A Kiwi professor has developed a new treatment that has already saved one man's life and could possibly help thousands more defeat mesothelioma — an aggressive cancer caused by exposure to asbestos. The disease results in death shortly after diagnosis.
Asbestos was once hailed as a miracle mineral, resistant to heat. Prolonged inhalation of asbestos fibers, however, is notorious for causing lung cancer and mesothelioma.
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