Morehead Memorial Hospital’s Smith-Michael Cancer Center has been granted a three-year accreditation with commendation by the American College of Surgeons Commission on Cancer. This certification is awarded when a program complies not only with all ...
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LOS ANGELES, Dec. 4 (UPI) -- A breast cancer chemotherapy drug shows benefits in fighting one type of breast cancer but not another type, U.S. researchers say. The study, published in the journal Clinical Cancer Research, found the oral chemotherapy ...
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LONDON - The most commonly used breast cancer drug may cause tumors to spread in a small number of women with low levels of a protein which makes cells stick together, British researchers said on Thursday. The findings could lead to new tests to ...
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New Rochelle, NY, December 4, 2008Researchers are taking a closer look at the phosphoinositide 3-kinase (PI3-kinase) pathway as studies continue to demonstrate that inhibiting this biological route suppresses tumor growth, reports Genetic Engineering ...
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BURLINGTON, N.C. --BD Diagnostics, a segment of BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company) (NYSE: BDX), announced today that it received U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Premarket Approval (PMA) for the BD FocalPoint(TM) GS Imaging System. This ...
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THURSDAY, Dec. 4 (HealthDay News) -- Reactions to the vaccine designed to protect against cervical cancer are rare, and young women can tolerate subsequent doses. That's the assessment of Australian researchers who analyzed data after more than 380 ...
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When your mother says eat your greens, you just might want to listen. It's been known since the 1970's that cruciferous vegetables, or cabbage family vegetables, such as broccoli, cauliflower, Brussels sprouts and kale, have anti-cancer benefits. But ...
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IOWA CITY — Miya Rodolfo-Sioson, the only survivor of a shooting rampage at the University of Iowa in 1991, has died of breast cancer. She died Wednesday at a hospital in Oakland, Calif. She was 40. A spokeswoman for the Alameda County Medical ...
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Cancer and heart disease were the two leading causes of deaths for Canadians, responsible for 52.4 per cent of all deaths in 2004, Statistics Canada reported Thursday. Between 2000 and 2004, age-standardized mortality rates declined for all 10 ...
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Dec 4 (Reuters) - Ambrilia Biopharma Inc (AMB.TO: Quote , Profile , Research , Stock Buzz ) said it granted ZBx Corp worldwide rights to develop, manufacture and market its prostate-cancer testing technology in ZBx's test systems, sending its shares ...
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