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Health notes: Most women with ovarian cancer receive inadequate care, study says
Minneapolis :: MN :: USA | 2 months ago
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Most women with ovarian cancer receive inadequate care and miss out on treatments that could add a year or more to their lives, a study has found. It highlights what many experts say are flaws in the care of women with this disease, which kills 15,
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Ovarian Cancer Expert Available to Comment on New Study Reported in Today's New York Times
New York City :: NY :: USA | 2 months ago
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EDT Source Newsroom: Results from a new study presented at this week's Society of Surgical Oncology annual meeting (and reported in Tuesday's New York Times ) show that the majority of women who receive a diagnosis of the most common type of ovarian
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More Than 60 Percent of Ovarian Cancer Patients Do Not Receive Recommended Treatment
Los Angeles :: CA :: USA | 2 months ago
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Women are 30 percent less likely to die of ovarian cancer if they have guideline-recommended treatment, yet nearly two-thirds of those with the disease do not receive it, often because they are cared for at hospitals that treat a small number of
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Breast, cervix cancer make up 25% of Indian women cases
Mumbai :: India | 2 months ago
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CME Programme on 'Recent trends in the Management of Breast and Gynaecological Cancers' Friday. Experts said that breast cancer is by far the most commonly diagnosed cancer in women worldwide and accounts for about 12% of all cancers in women in
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Cancer sufferers 'should get sex advice'
Dublin :: Ireland | 3 months ago
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A new study has found women recovering from these gynaecological cancers are not getting the kind of counselling they should be receiving. The research, led by fertility nurse Vicki Cleary at the School of Nursing in University College Cork, found
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Fran Drescher On The Importance Of Detoxing The Home Environment
Los Angeles :: CA :: USA | 4 months ago
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In a recent interview with So So Gay Magazine , Emmy Award winning actress Fran Drescher shared how her 'Cancer Schmancer' movement is focusing on the home environment. Over 90% of cancers are environmental and by detoxing our homes we can start to
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High Blood Calcium Levels May Indicate Ovarian Cancer
Wake Forest :: NC :: USA | 4 months ago
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Jan. 23, 2013 A new study from Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center is the first to report that high blood calcium levels might predict of ovarian cancer, the most fatal of the gynecologic cancers...Schwartz, Ph.D., a cancer epidemiologist at Wake
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Pap test could screen for ovarian and uterine cancer: Study
Islamabad :: Pakistan | 4 months ago
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a routine test women undergo each year or two to screen for cervical cancer -- could help screen for other types of cancer as well, a new study said this week. A new test takes the same fluid swab from the cervix and tests it for the presence of
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SGO Expert Available to Discuss Study About Possible Use of Pap Test to Detect Ovarian and Endometrial (Uterine) Cancers
Charlottesville :: VA :: USA | 4 months ago
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Source: SGO Spokesperson Mark H. Einstein, MD, MS, is available to speak about recent published reports on a study that was published in the Jan. 9, 2013, issue of Science Translational Medicine about the possibility of evaluating DNA from the
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Pap test fluid used to detect ovarian and endometrial cancers
São Paulo :: Brazil | 4 months ago
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In a pilot study, the "PapGene" test, which relies on genomic sequencing of cancer-specific mutations, accurately detected all 24 (100 percent) endometrial cancers and nine of 22 (41 percent) ovarian cancers. The investigators note that larger scale
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