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Anchor lead: Removing lymph nodes may not help in advanced ovarian cancer, Elizabeth Tracey reports Cancer cells can spread in the body by hitching a ride in lymph nodes, so removing them during surgery for cancer has always seemed like …

April 2, 2019 – Lymph Nodes and Ovarian Cancer Read more »

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Anchor lead: What are the barriers to clinical trial participation if you have cancer? Elizabeth Tracey reports It can be really hard to participate in a clinical trial for cancer therapies, even if you want to. That’s according to a …

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Anchor lead: If we find out who’s at risk for esophagus cancer we may be able to help, Elizabeth Tracey reports Barrett’s esophagus is a condition that often precedes development of esophageal cancer, with its dismal survival statistics. Stephen Meltzer …

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Anchor lead: Can a new method reduce the increasing numbers of cases of esophageal cancer? Elizabeth Tracey reports Cancer of the esophagus is a killer, with only about one in five people surviving for five years after diagnosis, according to …

March 14, 2019 – Better Testing Read more »

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Anchor lead: A new method may predict who might develop esophageal cancer, Elizabeth Tracey reports Cancer of the esophagus is on the rise, and it has a very poor prognosis. Now a new method of sampling cells from the esophagus …

March 13, 2019 – Barrett’s Esophagus Read more »