• 25 NOV 13
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    Provenge, first autologous cellular immunotherapy to prolong survival in prostate cancer

    PROVENGE(R) (sipuleucel-T) demonstrated a statistically significant improvement in overall survival compared to control in men with asymptomatic or minimally symptomatic metastatic castration resistant prostate cancer New England Journal of Medicine Publishes Data from Pivotal Phase 3 PROVENGE IMPACT Study First Autologous Cellular Immunotherapy to Prolong Survival in Cancer SEATTLE, July 28, 2010 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/

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    • 25 NOV 13
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    Long term non-progressors – HIV

    Gene research finds clues to AIDS survival Gene research finds clues to AIDS survivers. For decades, they lived a mystery: Why were they able to survive with the AIDS virus, free of symptoms and the need for potent drugs, while so many others with the same germ turned deathly ill? Read more

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    • 25 NOV 13
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    Cancer research: how to prevent and treat cancer

    Conventional medicine has lost its battle with cancer. But that doesn’t mean the war is over. Let me explain why we may finally be heading in the right direction. I just returned from TEDMED, an extraordinary gathering of brilliant minds from science, medicine, business and technology–a veritable intellectual orgy. During the conference, there was a theme

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    • 25 NOV 13
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    How heat helps kill cancer: An article about Local Hyperthermia

    Hyperthermia is occasionally used to augment the efficacy of certain cancer therapies, but how heat helps has been a mystery. Now, researchers have uncovered the details of one likely mechanism – heating a tumor inhibits homologous recombination, a DNA repair system, so cancer cells cannot mend DNA damaged by radiation or chemotherapy. Read more…  

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    • 25 NOV 13
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    Do night lights cause cancer?

    Before going to sleep in a 24/7 world, we watch TV, surf the web to catch the latest news, check Facebook to connect with our friends, or glance at our smart phones for the latest emails. Although it seems the normal thing to do, evening and night time light disrupts our biological rhythms and can

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