Category: Cancer
July 9, 2019 – Smoking Toxicity
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Anchor lead: Are cigarettes more toxic for blacks than other ethnic groups? Elizabeth Tracey reports Smoking causes lung cancer, and it may be more dangerous for blacks than for whites, a recent study found. Otis Brawley, professor of oncology and …
July 5, 2019 – CLL
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Anchor lead: A two therapy approach may help in the most common form of leukemia, Elizabeth Tracey reports Chronic lymphocytic leukemia, abbreviated CLL, is the most common form of leukemia, often affecting older people and those with certain mutations. Now …
July 3, 2019 – Tumors and Blood
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Anchor lead: Can understanding blood flow in a tumor lead to better treatment? Elizabeth Tracey reports What’s the best approach to treating a tumor? A new modeling method for assessing blood supply, critical to a tumor’s growth and survival, may …
July 2, 2019 – Blood Flow in Tumors
June 28, 2019 – Random DNA
June 27, 2019 – Mosaic
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Anchor lead: Your DNA is a lot more random than you might think, Elizabeth Tracey reports DNA is neatly packaged and essentially the same all over your body, right? Wrong, increasing evidence shows. Cristian Tomasetti, a cancer researcher at Johns …