Reuters – Too many men with low- or standard-risk prostate cancer get CTs and bone scans that aren’t recommended for them, suggests a new study.
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Reuters – Doctors are too instant to recommend expensive genetic counseling or testing for ovarian cancer, but at the same time often fail to refer high-risk women, government researchers say.
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Reuters – Very few patients who’ve had cancer surgery end up participating in clinical trials to test new treatments, researchers have found.
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Reuters – Drug regulators gave the go ahead on Friday for a blood cancer medicine by Seattle Genetics Inc, making it the initially drug for Hodgkin’s lymphoma approved in more than 30 years.
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Mari, a 3 year-old leukaemia patient, stands next to her IV drip at the corridor of the onco-hematology department of the Iashvili Central Children's Hospital in Tbilisi April 7, 2011. REUTERS/David MdzinarishviliReuters – Scientists for the initially time have used gene therapy to successfully ruin cancer tumors in patients with advanced disease — a goal that has taken 20 years to achieve.



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