Posts Tagged ‘Mutation’

Cancers Can Vanish Without Treatment, But How?

27th October 2009 by admin 2 Comments

Call it the arrow of cancer. Like the arrow of time, it was supposed to point in one direction. Cancers grew and worsened.

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But as a paper in The Journal of the American Medical Association noted last week, data from more than two decades of screening for breast and prostate cancer call that [...]

To Treat Ovarian Cancer More Successfully, First We Must Find the Tumors

29th July 2009 by admin 2 Comments

Just because ovarian tumors aren’t detectable doesn’t mean they aren’t life-threatening. By the time women and their doctors are aware of their existence, treatment options are often limited. The ability to detect such tumors early would go a long way toward eliminating the specter of ovarian cancer that haunts many women. Ultimately, that might become the case.
Researchers at Stanford University [...]