Category: Cancer

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Anchor lead: Understanding blood flow in a tumor may be critical to treating the cancer, Elizabeth Tracey reports Everything in your body needs blood to survive, and so do tumors. Interrupting their blood supply has been a target for years, …

July 2, 2019 – Blood Flow in Tumors Read more »

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Anchor lead: Who will treat all the people who are surviving cancer? Elizabeth Tracey reports By 2030, there will be millions of people who’ve survived their cancer treatment, the American Cancer Society has just reported, and while that’s great news, …

June 21, 2019 – Cancer Survivors Read more »

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Anchor lead: A blood test for cancer may also be able to isolate the location, Elizabeth Tracey reports  Looking at patterns of DNA fragments in the blood, Johns Hopkins researcher Victor Velculescu and colleagues have developed a new screening test …

June 19, 2019 – Screening Precision Read more »

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Anchor lead: A new approach to finding cancer DNA in the blood has been developed, Elizabeth Tracey reports Your blood may hold the key to early detection of cancer since DNA circulating there can be detected and analyzed, hopefully spotting …

June 14, 2019 – AI and DNA Read more »

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Anchor lead: Is being able to spot cancer with a blood test closer to reality? Elizabeth Tracey reports You have your own DNA circulating in your bloodstream all the time, and new tests aim to identify such DNA that may …

June 13, 2019 – Cancer Blood Test Read more »