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The problem with using a shotgun to kill a housefly is that even if you get the pest, you'll likely do a lot of damage to your home in the process.

Important information for women with a history of breast cancer. Some 180-thousand women a year in this country join the ranks of those battling breast cancer.

Cell Therapeutics, Inc.'s (CTI) (NASDAQ and MTA: CTIC) subsidiary Systems medicine (SM) has announced that planned enrollment is complete in the European Organization for Research and Treatment of cancer (EORTC) randomized phase II clinical trial of brostallicin in patients with newly diagnosed advanced or metastatic soft tissue sarcoma who have had no prior chemotherapy. The primary endpoint of the trial is progression-free survival at six months.

Patients who received lower than recommended doses of cancer therapy radiation from a Royal Adelaide Hospital radiation machine are unlikely to get compensation through the courts, an Adelaide lawyer has said.

The Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) says it is investigating whether there is any link between the cervical cancer vaccine and pancreatic disease.

Two independent papers in the August 15th issue of G&D identify the Rheb GTPase as a novel oncogene and a promising new chemotherapeutic target. The first paper, from Dr. Pier Paolo Pandolfi (BIDMC and Harvard Medical School) and colleagues, demonstrates that the Ras-like small GTPase, Rheb, is directly involved in prostate tumorigenesis.

Girls Scouts may be known for community service, but a group of girls reached out by comforting women newly diagnosed with breast cancer.

A possible future way to prevent relapses into drug dependence has been discovered by researchers at Linkoping University and the German cancer research center DKFZ. The target is the dopamine-producing nerve cells in the midbrain. Earlier research has shown that these cells become more excitable when a person takes drugs. To find out the functional meaning of this, these researchers used a mouse model for cocaine dependence.

A new systematic analysis of the relationship between the neoplastic and developmental transcriptome provides an outline of trends in cancer gene expression. The research, published recently in BioMed Central's open access journal Genome Biology, describes how cancers can be divided into three groups distinguished by disparate developmental signatures.

A decade-long Nebraska study that showed disparities in breast and cervical cancer screenings could have spurred changes that raised the percentage of women screened in the state. 'Disparities in screening between racial and ethnic groups, even in a homogeneous state such as Nebraska, are a problem and by digging into some of the differences we were able to have an impact on breast and cervical cancer screening,' said lead study author Shingairai Feresu, Ph.D.