Current US cervical cancer screening guidelines 'underestimate prevalence'
5/12/2014
Current US cervical cancer screening guidelines state that after the age of 65, women should not be screened. But new research suggests that women are most at risk after this age.
New technique expands number of functional cord blood stem cells for transplantation
5/12/2014
Adults suffering from diseases such as leukemia, lymphoma, and other blood-related disorders may benefit from life-saving treatment commonly used in pediatric patients.
Cervical cancer: current US screening guidelines 'underestimate prevalence'
5/12/2014
Current US cervical cancer screening guidelines state that after the age of 65, women should not be screened. But new research suggests that women are most at risk after this age.
Need for ultrasound, biopsies, reduced by breast tomosynthesis after screening mammography
5/12/2014
Breast tomosynthesis in the diagnostic workup for one- or two-view focal asymmetry detected at screening mammography resulted in less use of ultrasound, fewer biopsies, and higher positive predictive...
Breast cancer screening and chemoprevention
5/12/2014
Screening 40- to 49-year-old women for breast cancer has additional benefits beyond the proven decrease in mortality rate.
Women may avoid mammography screening due to overestimation of radiation exposure
5/12/2014
Misinformation and misunderstanding about the risks associated with ionizing radiation create heightened public concern and fear, and may result in avoidance of screening mammography that can detect...
Skin cancer deaths could be greatly reduced by regular doctor visits
5/11/2014
The risk of dying from the most dangerous type of skin cancer is significantly reduced with regular doctor visits, according to a Henry Ford Hospital study.
Vascular simulation research reveals new mechanism that switches in disease
5/11/2014
Blood vessel formation is critical to life and its manipulation is instrumental to a number of diseases.
DNA used to build tool that may literally shine light on cancer
5/10/2014
Bioengineers at the University of Rome Tor Vergata and the University of Montreal have used DNA to develop a tool that detects and reacts to chemical changes caused by cancer cells and that may one...
By carefully controlling the levels of two proteins, researchers at the Salk Institute have discovered how to keep mammary stem cells - those that can form breast tissue - alive and functioning in...