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Major Change: Breast and Prostate Cancer Incidence Surpassing Lung Cancer; Understand The Important Cancer Screening Guidelines
The 2024 American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) Cancer Progress Report has revealed that breast and prostate cancer incidence has surpassed lung cancer in the United States. Meanwhile, the ...
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Major New Drug Approval For Preventing Recurrence In Early Stage Breast Cancer Patients: Weighing The Risks & Benefits of Kisqali
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has just approved Novartis’ Kisqali (ribociclib) in combination with an aromatase inhibitor as treatment for people with HR+/HER2- stage II and III early breast ...
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Hope Dealing With Menopause or Perimenopause, Like 51-Year-Old Actress Gwyneth Paltrow, As New Study Finds Masturbation Improves Symptoms
New data from The Kinsey Institute at Indiana University, partnered with sexual wellbeing company the Lovehoney Group and its Womanizer brand, has found that 36.2 percent of menopausal women found ...
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Sudden Neck Snap Leaves Dad of Two, 49, Nearly Paralyzed: Turned Out To Be Blood Cancer That Destroys Bones
'Had I not gone to the hospital when I did, I would've at the very least been completely paralyzed,' says Simon Cummings of the traumatic incident Simon Cummings, at 49 years old, was close to ...
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Deeply In Love ‘Dallas’ Actor Patrick Duffy, 75, Sets Out Grand European Tour With His New Love— How He Coped With Losing His Wife
Actor Patrick Duffy lost his wife to cancer in 2017, but found love again with Linda Purl from “Happy Days,” who he has joined him on another trip to Budapest, to promote Duffy’s new film called ...
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The Decorated Firefighter Who Got Cancer Searching For His Son In the Rubble of Ground Zero
Retired New York City firefighter Lee Ielpi, 75, spent nine months searching through the rubble of Ground Zero. Searchers at the site managed to find the remains of his son who had responded to the ...
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Comic Legend Gilda Radner, 42, Died Tragically of Ovarian Cancer 30 Years Ago This Month: How Her Legacy of Giving (And Laughs) Lives On
30 years after SNL star and comedy legend Gilda Radner died from ovarian cancer in 1989 at only 42, her courageous story continues to inspire women who are going through the same illness. Radner, ...
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Ovarian Cancer: The Cancer That Whispers
Ovarian cancer is often referred to as the "cancer that whispers," according to Dr. Beth Karlan, Director of the Women's Cancer Program at the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. It has symptoms that are ...
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PARP Inhibitors Can Be Effective as Part of Initial Treatment for Ovarian Cancer
PARP inhibitors for epithelial ovarian cancer work by interrupting the process of single stranded DNA repair, an essential part of cell replication. Defects in DNA repair ultimately cause cancer cell ...
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Grades of Ovarian Cancer: Measuring Its Aggressiveness
In cancer, you often hear the words “stage” and “grade.” In ovarian cancer, oncologists are able to make these distinctions only after examining cells removed through the surgery that’s a first part ...