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Eosinophils: All You Need to Know
7/12/2016
Learn all about eosinophils, a type of white blood cell. This article looks at what eosinophils are and what happens when levels get too low or high.
Prostate cancer: Unexpected results from international Phase III study
7/12/2016
A recently published international clinical Phase III trial of a promising drug for treating advanced prostate cancer ended with surprising results: the new therapeutic agent failed to achieve any...
Strategies to mimic fasting during chemotherapy enhance anticancer T cell activity in mice
7/12/2016
Fasting is known to increase positive outcomes during cancer treatment, and now two independent studies in mice show that fasting, either through diet or drugs, during chemotherapy helps increase...
Heart failure after first heart attack may increase cancer risk
7/12/2016
People who develop heart failure after their first heart attack have a greater risk of developing cancer when compared to first-time heart attack survivors without heart failure, according to a...
Three health benefits of coffee
7/12/2016
Some people simply do not feel complete until they have had their morning cup of java. Now, the Daily Meal report on three health benefits of coffee.
Younger age, lymph node removal: Risk factors for pain after breast cancer surgery
7/12/2016
An international team of researchers has identified several risk factors for persistent pain after breast cancer surgery; these include younger age, radiation therapy and removal of lymph nodes...
Septicemia: Know the Facts
7/12/2016
Learn all about septicemia, a medical emergency that some people refer to as blood poisoning. This article looks at septicemia and focuses on sepsis.
Discovery of new ovarian cancer signaling hub points to target for limiting metastasis
7/11/2016
Like pancreatic cancer, cancer of the ovaries is notorious for being discovered at a relatively late stage - after it has spread to other sites in the body.
Where did it all go wrong? Scientists identify 'cell of origin' in skin cancers
7/11/2016
Scientists have identified for the first time the 'cell of origin' - in other words, the first cell from which the cancer grows - in basal cell carcinoma, the most common form of skin cancer, and...
International collaboration to create new cancer models to accelerate research
7/11/2016
An international project to develop a large, globally accessible, bank of new cancer cell culture models for the research community launches today (Monday).