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When Becky Smith was denied vital cancer treatment by the Health Service 'postcode lottery', she feared she might not live to see her wedding day. The 30-year-old NHS surgeon, whose breast cancer was missed four times, considered cancelling the ceremony to pay for the treatment she needed. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1299046/Happiness-doctor-cancer-battle-lives-wedding-day.html#ixzz0vEh5voMj
Published on Saturday 31st of July 2010 06:46:14 PM
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The ACC certainly gets kicked around when it comes to football, at least in the last couple of years. Some of it’s justified, when you consider how the conference is in the backyard of the SEC. Some of it is excessive. For example, there are several writers out there who get their jollies by linking to a picture of the half empty stadium in Jacksonville from the 2007 ACC Championship any time a story comes around about the conference title game. Get your shots in while you can, folks: you may not have the ACC to kick around much longer....
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Prayers needed for BornToBeAmerican who is unemployed and searching for work. Wife, Jani, suffers from breast cancer and is undergoing chemo now. They live in Texas, near New Braunfels, if any FReeper can help with employment.
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A new study has shed light on the interaction between broccoli consumption and reduced prostate cancer risk. Researchers have found that sulforaphane, a chemical found in broccoli, interacts with cells lacking a gene called PTEN to reduce the chances of prostate cancer developing. Richard Mithen, from the Institute of Food Research, an institute of BBSRC, worked with a team of researchers on Norwich Research Park, UK, to carry out a series of experiments in human prostate tissue and mouse models of prostate cancer to investigate the interactions between expression of the PTEN gene and the anti-cancer activity of sulforaphane. "PTEN...
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Circulating aberrant cells increase as non-small cell lung cancer progresses. HOUSTON — A novel approach detects genetically abnormal cells in the blood of non-small cell lung cancer patients that match abnormalities found in tumor cells and increase in number with the severity of the disease, a research team led by scientists at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center report in the journal Clinical Cancer Research. Lung cancer patients in the study also had many times the number of these circulating abnormal cells than study volunteers in a closely matched control group. “We suspect additional research will show that...
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Men with a long ring finger could be three times more likely to develop prostate cancer, research shows. Doctors found that the risk increases if the ring finger on the right hand is significantly longer than the index finger next to the thumb. But men whose ring fingers are only slightly longer, or are about the same length, are much less likely to get the disease. The findings open up the possibility of screening men with longer fingers at an early age for signs of cancer. In the study, blood tests showed that men with longer ring fingers on their...
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New research at UCLA's Jonsson Comprehensive Center seeks to turn the human body into a genetically engineered cancer-killing machine. The fact that the human body doesn't see cancer as a threat to be destroyed naturally is part of what makes treating it so difficult, so this research uses a harmless, HIV-like virus as the vehicle to carry T-cells (which fight disease) to lymphocytes, and simultaneously carry a reporter gene, which show up in positron emission tomography (PET) scanning, as you can see in the photographs above. So far the researchers have injected the cells into the bloodstreams of melanoma-infected mice, and they...
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