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Not a bad idea, but getting the ambulance across midtown traffic in the rush hour is still going to be challenging.

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A new blog - developments in the science and biology of cancer disease

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A new study suggests that being maltreated in childhood contributes to the co-occurrence of depression and inflammation later in life.

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Integrating cancer data using bioinformatics... a new cool and interesting approach.

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Malignant melanoma is almost impossible to treat and so understanding the biology of the disease may lead to improved therapies. Gleevec is known to target the KIT mutation and so the finding that KIT is mutated in melanoma would make it a logical choice

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Researchers identify 12 genetic markers believed to be linked to prostate cancer. There is a strong family history associated with the disease so linking biomarkers to the disease would enable better screening and early detection, saving thousands of liv

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Scientists are so naive sometimes... this reminds me of the some of the theoretical physicists developing the ideas behind the atom bomb - and they didn't think it might be used for more sinister purposes?

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You would think something like global health would be easy even for the politicians...

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New developments in understanding the biology may lead to a breakthrough in HIV treatment in the future!

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These cases are always sad - there is no evidence that giving drugs to terminally ill cancer patients will cure them. Potentially prolong their life by a few days or weeks, but the end result is likely to be the same. Sometimes, allowing patients to die

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A few years ago, survival from chronic myeloid leukemia was 3-4 years; with new therapies patients are now living 6 years after failure of interferon, so that's about 10 years in total. An incredible improvement!

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New combinations are the way forward in the treatment of cancer - targeting different aspects of the cancer cell may help reduce resistance. For example, the Rev/Vel/Dex combo in myeloma looks very promising indeed.

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"It means we might be able to do something about at-risk cells before cancer develops and treat these cells biochemically, and specifically, rather than using current drugs that are nonspecific and kill everything in their path." Now that sounds almost

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Scary stuff!! Makes you wonder how such a thing can happen. Who said the USA leads the world in medical care? I think not!

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Could cancer be caused by the body's own repair system going awry?

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