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Of Oral Sex and Throat Cancer

If you have been keeping up with the news, you probably share the sentiment that everything causes cancer. Here is one to add to the list: oral sex. Yes. Even oral sex could lead to cancer. In the human throat, it might lead to even more cancer than smoking does. Let us clarify: it is [...]

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Cancer-Fighting Virus

A modified version of the vaccinia virus, more famously used as the smallpox vaccine, is showing promise as a cancer killer. The virus, called JX-594, is especially exciting because it can be injected directly into the bloodstream and doesn’t seem to damage healthy tissue. The idea of treating cancer with viruses  is not a new [...]

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medicalstate: Barrett’s Esophagus Progressing to Esophageal Cancer. With gastro-esophageal reflux di

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Fast & Fancy Cancer Therapy

Melanoma Metastasis Cancer is bad news – especially when it mobilizes from one body part to another. Scientists call this migration of cancer cell metastasis. Interestingly, not all cancers do this. Some cancers never leave their place of origin. To figure out what makes a cell pack up and leave home, scientists have looked to genes for [...]

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http://c.brightcove.com/services/viewer/federated_f9?isVid=1&isUI=1 Molecularly Engineered Cells from Self Induce Tumor Lysis for 2 Patients (and counting…)

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eddieatthegov: Is The HPV Vaccine Safe? v 2.0

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Avastin II: Video Tutorial

  Enjoy this informative video on how Avastin works, brought to you by the US manufacturer, Genentech.  

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