Experts warn of dangers of overdiagnosis and treatment of cancer
Improved screening has resulted in the overdiagnosis and overtreatment of cancers that are not life-threatening, without significantly reducing the death rate from the disease, and the time has come to alter how cancer is detected, treated and defined …
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Just a few minutes a day on a mobile phone 'raises cancer risk'
Henry Scowcroft, the science information manager at Cancer Research UK, said: "Brain tumour rates have been more or less unchanged for decades, and this, coupled with the results of large studies, suggests that mobile phones do not increase the risk of …
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Panel backs lung cancer screening for some smokers
FILE – In a June 3, 2010, file photo, Dr. Steven Birnbaum works with a patient in a CT scanner at Southern New Hampshire Medical Center in Nashua, N.H. For the first time, government advisers are recommending screening for lung cancer, saying certain …
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Therapy filters cancer that chemo misses
(Credit: National Cancer Institute/Wikimedia Commons). PENN STATE (US) —Many cancers, including breast and prostate cancers, can spread to the brain, but researchers say filtering malignant cells out of the cerebrospinal fluid may reduce the risk. Tweet.
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McLaren Macomb hospital offers 3D breast-cancer…
A local hospital now has a state-of-the-art weapon in its fight against breast cancer. McLaren Macomb hospital in Mount Clemens recently put into use 3D digital technology for breast cancer screening. Called 3D digital tomosynthesis, the technology …
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The Human Body — Cancer
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The cells of the body are workshops, a thousand times smaller than the cells of a honeycomb, yet furnished with every modern convenience. Besides, the inhabitants do not mind being shut up in their restricted quarters — everything has been provided to ensure their well-being. And the same laws apply to them all.
Naturally, here as in any community, there are certain individuals who prefer to live in the fringe of society. They are evil doers and they hide, the better to be able to carry out their illegal trade. Their hiding-places are most often cells at the bottom of blind alleys where their sort form unhealthy growths which quickly develop, branch out, and bring trouble to the peaceful city, and often death. These clusters of cells have a frightening Latin name which means crab: Cancer.
