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Researcher's Photoacoustic Device Finds Cancer Cells Before They Become Tumors, Study Suggests
January 5, 2012 Researchers are one step closer to melanoma cancer detection at the cellular level, long before tumors have a chance to form. Commercial production of a device that measures melanoma using ... > full story -
Antiestrogen Therapy May Decrease Risk for Melanoma
January 4, 2012 Women with breast cancer who take antiestrogen supplements may be decreasing their risk for melanoma, according to a new ... > full story -
Hereditary Predisposition of Melanoma of the Eye Discovered
December 15, 2011 Researchers have discovered a hereditary cancer syndrome that predisposes certain people to a melanoma of the eye, along with lung cancer, brain cancer and possibly other types of ... > full story -
Smoking Is Strongly Associated With Squamous Cell Carcinoma Among Women
December 8, 2011 Women who have non-melanoma skin cancers are more likely to have smoked cigarettes compared to women without skin cancer, said ... > full story -
American Society of Clinical Oncology Issues Annual Report on Progress Against Cancer
December 5, 2011 The American Society of Clinical Oncology has released Clinical Cancer Advances 2011: ASCO's Annual Report on Progress Against Cancer, an independent review of the advances in cancer research that ... > full story -
'Encouraging' Skin Cancer Discovery: P-Rex1 Plays Key Role in Spread of Malignant Melanoma
December 5, 2011 Scientists have made an important discovery in the fight against malignant melanoma, the most dangerous form of skin cancer. In a new study, researchers have shown that a specific gene (P-Rex1) must ... > full story -
Lower Antioxidant Level Might Explain Higher Skin-Cancer Rate in Males
December 1, 2011 A new study may help explain why men are three times more likely than women to develop a common form of skin cancer. The study found that male mice had lower levels of an important skin antioxidant ... > full story -
Scientists Use Laser Imaging to Assess Safety of Zinc Oxide Nanoparticles in Sunscreen
November 30, 2011 Ultra-tiny zinc oxide (ZnO) particles are among the ingredients list of some commercially available sunscreen products, raising concerns about whether the particles may be absorbed beneath the outer ... > full story -
Drug May Slow Spread of Deadly Eye Cancer
November 28, 2011 A drug commonly used to treat seizures appears to make eye tumors less likely to grow if they spread to other parts of the body, according to ... > full story -
Blood Stem Cells Engineered to Fight Melanoma
November 28, 2011 Researchers have demonstrated for the first time that blood stem cells can be engineered to create cancer-killing T-cells that seek out and attack a human ... > full story
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