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...refractory squamous cell carcinoma of the skin, an aggressive rare variant of common skin cancer. "Wherea... percent of breast cancer, often resulting in more aggressive cancer cells that don't respond to standard treatments. The drug is also being studied in other form...NHS trusts putting safety of pregnant doctors at risk
...xcessive hours and are often exposed to violent or aggressive patients. It also uncovers major discrepancies in the way trusts apply guidelines to protect the rights of pregnant women in the workplace. One doctor in psychiatry describes how she was expected to work extended nights on call, covering forensic and...ACP guidelines: Many diabetics should be taking statins
...l Medicine. This is the second ACP guideline on aggressive management of risk factors for cardiovascular disease in people with type 2 diabetes. In April 2003, ACP called for tight control of blood pressure for people with diabetes. An estimated 80 percent of people with type 2 diabetes will develop or di...Fertility herbal supplement sprouts promising results in Stanford pilot study
... pursuing alternative therapies before taking more aggressive routes such as in vitro fertilization. Despite thi.... "Many women are interested in avenues aside from aggressive infertility treatment. If we can find an effective way to treat patients less invasively, it would b...Prescription of opioids for back pain needs improvement
...led-release form of the potent drug, as well as an aggressive marketing campaign by its manufacturer. The use of hydrocordone also increased, but at a much slower rate. The rate of increase in this agent was very similar to the rate of decline in the use of propoxyphene, a drug found to have unwanted side effec...Are toddlers who can't sleep at higher risk of becoming teens who smoke, drink or do drugs?
...lems, level of anxiety or depression symptoms, and aggressive behavior characteristics. All three areas of behavior problems have been linked with sleep problems and/or with drug and alcohol use and abuse. Ages 12-14 The boys were asked to take the Drinking and other Drug Use History Questionnaire (DDHQ-Y)...Lung cancer now leading cause of cancer death in women
...d smoking in China in the past 10 years, and after aggressive promotional campaigns in Japan that targeted women and girls, smoking among women there has doubled in just five years. Patel and co-authors caution that the extraordinary increase in lung cancer rates seen in American women in the 20th century wil...Online tool estimates long-term chance of surviving prostate cancer
...hat African-American men also tend to undergo less aggressive treatment than whites, and additional studies by o...rs to new questions: Why do black men receive less aggressive treatment than whites? Are black men choosing less aggressive treatment themselves or are their doct...Article examines reasons contributing to epidemic of lung cancer in U.S. women
... increase in these countries, often accelerated by aggressive advertising campaigns targeted directly to women. The extraordinary increase in lung cancer rates seen among U.S. women in the 20th century will be repeated among women in developing countries during this century unless effective tobacco control mea...One in 12 diabetics over age 40 has vision-threatening eye disease
...-standing DM but its incidence can be reduced with aggressive control of glucose levels and blood pressure, the article states. John H. Kempen, M.D., Ph.D., of the Wilmer Eye Institute at The Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, and colleagues in the Eye Diseases Prevalence Research Group, determined ...Breast cancer patients with BRCA1 or 2 mutations twice as likely to have double mastectomy
...or bilateral or double mastectomy, taking the most aggressive surgical stance to treat their current cancer and reduce their risk for future breast cancer. The study, led by researchers at Georgetown University Medical Center's Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center (LCCC) and published online today in the Jour...Latest cancer research features small molecule therapy, and the preventative benefits of sunshine
...year, with a median survival of 3 months. These aggressive and fatal tumors differ from other more treatable types of thyroid cancers by virtue of having no rearrangement in Pax8/PPARgamma fusion genes common to a follicular subtype of thyroid tumor. The unaltered peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor ...Advanced small-cell lung cancer patients
...ll-cell lung cancer (SCLC), a less common but more aggressive form of cancer. Typically, treatment for SCLC entails chemotherapy or radiation. But when the disease is advanced or recurring, patients often are in poor health overall and are less equipped to handle the toxicity and devastation of powerful cancer ...Mayo Clinic researchers discover green tea component helps kill leukemia cells
...y to identify early stage patients who have a more aggressive form of the cancer. As a result, much CLL research is focused on identifying which initial-stage patients should be treated earlier in the course of their disease -- the topic of another recent article by Mayo Clinic researchers (Blood,...Black men less likely to be treated for aggressive prostate cancer, UMHS study finds
ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- Black men with the most aggressive form of prostate cancer are less likely than white...g men whose tumors were aggressive. Black men with aggressive cancers were half as likely as white men with similar disease to receive treatment; Hispanic men wer...Nanotech imaging, molecular fingerprints and signatures hold promise for cancer
... produced by cancerous prostate cells indicate how aggressive the disease is in individual patients, a team of Harvard University scientists revealed today. "Cancerous prostate cells produce molecular metabolic 'fingerprints' that differ from the metabolic 'fingerprints' of healthy prostate cells," s...Conservation treatment or mastectomy for DCIS?
...s, often doctors and patients have chosen the more aggressive option of mastectomy, because it carries the least...ngs are significant, since they show that the less aggressive option of a lumpectomy can be chosen in the knowledge that it does not affect a woman's overall chan...Treatment of ductal carcinoma in situ varies widely in United States
...Treatment ranges from potential overtreatment with aggressive surgical therapy to possible undertreatment by not...n were more common among women whose DCIS had more aggressive characteristics. "According to our study, many patients apparently underwent aggressive surgical tr...Radiation therapy effective for some patients with recurrent cancer after radical prostatectomy
...ly reported, that it is frequently associated with aggressive features, and that salvage radiotherapy offers the..., namely, those with positive surgical margins and aggressive features who would go on to develop distant metastases if left untreated. Outside the context of a c...Study supports new theory for nicotine's protective effect against neurodegenerative disorders
...ut if you stop talking they are more likely to get aggressive and have a toxic effect on the brain." The USF researchers hypothesize that acetylcholine acts as an endogenous anti-inflammatory substance to help prevent microglia from attacking the brain. This neurotransmitter may consistently signal brai...