Cancers

Patient tattoos thanks to medics

Zoe Stevens now has three tattoos on her lower back. A cancer patient from Cornwall has thanked her medical team by having their names tattooed on her lower back. Zoe Stevens, from Bodmin, was diagnosed with breast cancer in...

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Cancer Research Nurse (x2) Full time/part time

University of Southampton - School of Medicine - Cancer Research UK Centre This is an exciting opportunity to be part of an exceptional team of motivated and enthusiastic nurses, based at the Southampton General Hospital,...

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The New Mammogram Guidelines: What You Need to Know

Blanca Rubio performs a mammogram on a 65-year-old patient at Evanston Hospital in Evanston, Ill., on Oct. 16 Chicago Tribune / MCT / Landov If the brouhaha following a government advisory panel's recent change in...

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Less Frequent Pap Tests: Good for Women?

Change in Cervical Cancer Screening Recommendations Is a Welcome Step OPINION By MARIE SAVARD, M.D. ABC News Medical Contributor may seem like another blow to women's health. The new guidelines from the ACOG recommend the...

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Dendreon's Provenge Gets FDA Review Date

Dendreon's Potential Prostate Cancer Treatment Provenge Gets May 1 FDA Review Date (AP) SEATTLE (AP) - Biotechnology company Dendreon Corp. said Friday the Food and Drug Administration will make a regulatory decision on the...

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Funeral workers risk cancer from formaldehyde

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Morticians who use formaldehyde to embalm bodies have a higher risk of leukemia, researchers reported on Friday. They found deaths from one particular kind of leukemia, myeloid leukemia, increased the...

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Clearing up cancer screening confusion

Different groups stick to different guidelines — here’s a rundown Several doctors groups and advocacy groups set guidelines for cancer screening, and they update that advice periodically as new information emerges. Sometimes...

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Mammography Debate Has Raged for Decades

New Screening Guidelines Stir Controversy, but Debate Is Not New A controversy that has alternately simmered and boiled for more than 40 years reached a flash point this week when the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force...

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Eat and drink your way to a healthy colon?

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Eating fruits and vegetables, and drinking tea and red wine may offer overweight men and normal weight women some protection from colon and rectal cancers, hint study findings from the Netherlands.

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GOP: Health test recommendations could affect care

By LAURIE KELLMAN Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) - Republicans are seizing on this week's recommendations for fewer pap smears and mammograms to fuel concern about government-rationed medical care _ and to try to chip...

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