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Cancer Patients in Group Therapy Don’t Live Longer

May 4, 2007 – 4:46 am

Group therapy makes life better for patients battling cancer, but it doesn’t help them live longer.
That’s the conclusion of a team of researchers at the University of Pennsylvania, who examined the literature on group therapy published after one paper in 1989 reported that women with advanced breast cancer who attended group therapy survived nearly twice […]

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Protein found to spread breast cancer, potential new drug target

April 11, 2007 – 8:01 am

Researchers at the Kimmel Cancer Center at Jefferson have identified a protein that they say is key to helping a quarter of all breast cancers spread. The finding, reported online the week of April 9, 2007 in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, could be a potential target for new drugs aimed […]

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Study Shows Treatment May Cause Cancer to Spread

April 11, 2007 – 7:59 am

A new US study reports that a treatment-induced growth factor called TGF-beta helps contribute to the spread of advanced cancer.
Anti-tumor therapies work only partially or not at all in patients with advanced cancer, and tumors keep growing after treatment according to a research team at Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center in Nashville, Tenn.
The research team, led by […]

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Scientists link treatment-induced growth factor to cancer spread

April 8, 2007 – 6:14 pm

In advanced cancer, anti-tumor therapies often work only partially or not at all, and tumors progress following treatment.
Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center scientists have now linked a treatment-induced growth factor to the cancer’s future spread.

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Cancer eclipses politics Choosing legacy of life means campaign goes on

April 2, 2007 – 5:23 pm

WHAT I KEEP remembering during the long conversation about cancer and politics, about ambition and parenting, about Elizabeth and John Edwards, is the video I watched the day before their announcement.
On YouTube, the candidate was shown grooming his hair in a TV green room, while a soundtrack from “West Side Story” played the tune “I […]

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