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Radiology procedure may help increase long-term survival in patients with severe liver cancer
Promoting healthy skepticism in the news: Helping journalists get it right
Reasonable alternative to invasive biopsy of palpable breast lesions with benign imaging features identified
Rare pancreatic cancer patients may live longer when treated with radiation therapy
Laser therapy can aggravate skin cancer
Highlighting racial disparities increases coverage and effectiveness of health news
Date: Fri, Nov 20
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In patients with unresectable (unable to be removed by surgery) liver cancer, an interventional radiology procedure called triple-drug transcatheter arterial chemoemobolization followed by a liver transplant may significantly increase a patient's chance ...
[more]Promoting healthy skepticism in the news: Helping journalists get it right
Date: Fri, Nov 20
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An editorial published online November 20 in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute discusses the exaggerated fears and hopes that often appear in news coverage of cancer research. The editorial provides guidance for both the media and journals to ...
[more]Reasonable alternative to invasive biopsy of palpable breast lesions with benign imaging features identified
Date: Fri, Nov 20
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Short-term follow-up is a reasonable alternative to invasive biopsy of palpable (capable of being touched or felt) breast lesions with benign imaging features, particularly in younger women with probable fibroadenoma (non-cancerous tumors that often occu...
[more]Rare pancreatic cancer patients may live longer when treated with radiation therapy
Date: Fri, Nov 20
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Radiation therapy is effective in achieving local control and palliation in patients with pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors, despite such tumors being commonly considered resistant to radiation therapy, according to a largest of its kind study in the Nov....
[more]Laser therapy can aggravate skin cancer
Date: Thu, Nov 19
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High irradiances of low-level laser therapy should not be used over melanomas. Researchers writing in the open-access journal BMC Cancer studied the pain relieving, anti-inflammatory "cold laser," finding that it caused increased tumor growth in a mouse ...
[more]Highlighting racial disparities increases coverage and effectiveness of health news
Date: Thu, Nov 19
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As media researchers search for better methods to reach audiences, a new University of Missouri study published in Public Relations Review has found that highlighting racial disparities in news releases increases coverage of health stories in black newsp...
[more]Radiology procedure may help increase long-term survival in patients with severe liver cancer
In patients with unresectable (unable to be removed by surgery) liver cancer, an interventional radiology procedure called triple-drug transcatheter ...
Nov 20, 2009
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