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' Adults who've survived childhood cancer must remain vigilant to stay healthy in the future.

Prince Charles and CamillaPhoto by Gareth Cattermole/Getty ImagesPrince Charles and Camilla have opened a £4.6 million breast cancer research unit Edinburgh's Western General Hospital. Called the Breakthrough Breast cancer...

The cancer Council in South Australia says people over the age of 50 should be getting screened for bowel cancer twice a year.

Sweetener ... lollies are the latest product to go 'green'. Photo: Eddie Jim Want to buy a day's worth of carbon offsets with your chocolate bar? How about donating to breast cancer research with your breath ...

ORLANDO, FL (UroToday.com) - This international group of investigators evaluated a large cohort of men treated with either radical prostatectomy (RP n=6196) or external beam radiation therapy (EBRT n=4137) between 1983 and 2004. Hormonal therapy was not used in either group. Need for subsequent extirpative treatment for bladder, lung, or colorectal cancer was examined.

Researchers at the Kimmel cancer Center at Jefferson in Philadelphia have shown that by blocking a signaling protein, they can prevent prostate cancer cells from metastatic dissemination. The work opens the door to future studies examining the protein as a target for therapies aimed at keeping prostate cancer at bay.

Rosetta Genomics, Ltd. (NASDQ: ROSG), a leader in the development of microRNA-based diagnostic and therapeutic products, announced a research collaboration with The University of Texas M. D. Anderson cancer Center and the Kleberg Center for Molecular Markers to develop a microRNA- based diagnostic test to predict risk of disease recurrence in lung cancer patients who have undergone curative resection.

There is a need to remove the major ethnic inequalities which still exist in access to cancer services and outcomes, according to the latest edition of Science & Public Affairs.

(Offspring PR) The cancer and Leukemia Group B today announced data from a phase II clinical trial showing that 70 percent of patients with previously untreated follicular lymphoma responded to treatment with galiximab, an investigational anti-CD80 monoclonal antibody, when given in combination with rituximab. Of the 61 patients in the study, 44 percent achieved a complete response and 26 percent had a partial response. The data were presented at the 10th International Conference on Malignant Lymphoma

3T MRI can accurately stage, and help surgeons plan sphincter-sparing surgery in patients with rectal cancer, according to a recent study conducted by researchers at Qilu Hospital of Shandong University in Shandong, China.'Recently, MRI has been increasingly accepted by radiologists, surgeons and patients to image the rectum because of its superior soft tissue contrast and multi-planar capability,' said Chuanfu Li, MD, lead author of the study.