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Breast Cancer: 10 Common Misconceptions

11 October, 2011

Pink is swirling all around this month You can’t help but notice that And I’d be burying my head in the sand if I didn’t acknowledge that it is, after all, breast cancer awareness month This photo was taken a few weeks ago when my 25-year-old son, Jonathan, ran in the Race for the Cure [...]

Gene test for pancreatic cancer in the works

19 July, 2011

Doctors around the region and the nation are looking to treat pancreatic cancer before it starts by examining cysts. About 13 percent of people have pancreatic cysts but only a small number will become cancer. With all the imaging and testing, they still can’t say with certainty which will develop into cancer. So, some people [...]

Medicare to cover Avastin for breast cancer

3 July, 2011

Medicare will continue to cover the cost of the drug Avastin for patients with breast cancer even though the FDA has voted to withdraw its approval.”The FDA decision, when it comes, does not affect CMS,” Don McLeod, a spokesman for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid said Thursday, according to Reuters. “The drug will still [...]

New Genetic Clues to Ovarian Cancer

30 June, 2011

June 29, 2011 — Multiple genetic mutations appear to be involved in the development of ovarian cancer, according to a new large-scale analysis of tumor samples. Researchers from the Cancer Genome Atlas Research Network looked at 489 high-grade serous ovarian adenocarcinomas (HGS-OvCa). These are a kind of epithelial ovarian cancer, the most common kind. Ovarian [...]

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