Years of schooling and training are needed to teach pathologists and radiologists to spot cancer on medical images, but a…
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FDA approves Roche’s Cotellic for combination skin cancer therapy
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday approved Swiss drugmaker Roche’s Cotellic to be used in combination with the…
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Robot helps hospital-bound kids go on ‘virtual’ field trips
When children are diagnosed with cancer, their hospital rooms often become their new homes. Depending on the severity of their…
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Cancer remains leading cause of death among US Hispanics
Cancer remains the leading cause of death among Hispanics in the U.S., driven in large part by lung malignancies in…
Read MoreScientists call for new review of herbicide, cite ‘flawed’ US regulations
U.S. regulators have relied on flawed and outdated research to allow expanded use of an herbicide linked to cancer, and…
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Years later, stress training pays off for cancer patients
Eleven years later, women who took a stress management course after being diagnosed with breast cancer were still reaping the…
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Iowa man who fought to use marijuana oil on rare cancer dies
An eastern Iowa man who was convicted late last year of growing marijuana that he used to treat his rare…
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Chemotherapy for late-stage cancer patients risky, study says
Terminally ill cancer patients who received chemotherapy in the last months of life were more likely to die in an…
Read MoreTexas baby’s brain tumor benign following surgery allowed by insurer’s change of heart
The family of Savannah Snodgrass — a 7-month old Texas girl who was stricken with a brain tumor — cried…
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