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A blood marker called prostasin seems to link both one’s risk to develop diabetes and the risk of dying from cancer. How might these be linked? William Nelson, director of the Kimmel Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins, offers his interpretation. …
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Thyroid cancer seems to be occurring more often globally, yet a recent study shows that for the majority of people who had surgery for thyroid cancer, the cancer was found while they were being evaluated for something else, a so-called …
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Do men experience more cancers than women? Elizabeth Tracey reports Men get cancer more often than women. That’s the conclusion of a recent large study examining different types of cancer among males and females. But its conclusion is disputed by …
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When someone has the skin cancer melanoma, a lymph node nearby, called a sentinel node, is frequently assessed to see if the cancer has spread. If cancer is found there also removal of all the lymph nodes in the area …
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Perhaps you’ve reported your own blood pressure measurements or blood sugar to your physician. So called patient reported data that is monitored by a nurse helped make cancer treatment just a little bit smoother and easier, a new study finds. …
